Assistant Accountant

Our client, an international fashion brand house and a long-standing partner of ours for over 22 years, is seeking an Assistant Accountant in Watford office (Occasional travel to London and other client offices required).

We have placed hundreds of professionals within this group over the years. It is a business where people grow, develop, and build long-term careers. The culture is supportive, entrepreneurial, and values contribution and performance.

• Minimum 3 years including financial accounting and preferably with some experience in a firm of chartered accountants.
• Experience in using SAGE 200 or equivalent accounting package.
• Experience in using ERP System, Excel (minimum VLOOKUPS and Pivot Tables).
• Experience in working to strict deadlines, attention to detail and ability to work with other members of the team.

AAT fully qualified or part qualified ACCA or CIMA

• Checking bank statements and updating the cashbook for all currencies (daily).
• Processing purchase/bought ledger invoices.
• Retrieving information from supplier portals/emails.
• Posting/analysis/inputting of invoices/credits on to SAGE 200 including coding to trial balance accounts.
• Maintaining AP ledgers, AP spreadsheets and reports.
• Ensuring documents are authorised as per company procedures including chasing other members of staff for approval.
• Managing recurring and monthly journals.
• Ensuring the purchase invoices tie up with purchase orders/GRN's.
• Preparing weekly payment runs/weekly cash flow.
• Uploading payments on the bank’s net banking system.
• Posting and allocating payments received and sent on a daily basis.
• Checking purchase/bought ledger statements.
• Communicating with suppliers by phone or email.
• Archiving accounts’ documents as per company procedure, including scanning AP documentation onto SAGE 200.
• Assisting with preparing the VAT.
• Processing staff credit card expenses and analysis.
• Assisting with raising customer credit notes.
• Uploading invoices/credit notes in the portal for the German subsidiary companies.
• Maintaining/updating the fixed assets register.
• Issuing intercompany invoices or debit notes.
• Carrying out the month-end procedure on STYLEman ERP system (i.e. Debtors Report/Stock report.)
• Carrying out ad-hoc reporting and finance or operations related tasks

• Excellent Salary
• Yearly bonus (at the Directors discretion) and/or Annual pay review
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• Additional days holiday between Christmas and New Year if the Directors decide to close the business
• Standard working hours 9 to 5:30 - 30 min lunch = 40 hours a week
• 1-day WFH after probation and training at the company’s sole discretion (non-contractual)
• Workplace Pension Scheme.
• 60% Discount on our products that we have on Ecommerce.
• Sample sales 2+ times a year.
• Short Leave – with pre-approval from Line Manager to take up to 2 hours off without deduction from holiday allowance.