Bookkeeper Full Time Permanent

• Position: Bookkeeper – with strong management account experience
• Salary: £36,000 per annum plus very good company benefits
• Location: Uckfield, East Sussex
• Hours: Monday – Friday 09:15 – 17.30. This role is primarily office based but there are opportunities to also work from home part of the week
• Free street parking available very nearby.

We are delighted to be working alongside our very professional and highly reputable accountancy based client as they seek to recruit a Bookkeeper to join their Uckfield team on a permanent and full time basis.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Input and review data
• Review and maintain sales, purchase and general ledgers
• Post and review month end journals
• Adhere to proper accounting standards
• Meet deadlines and time budgets
• Advise managers of any outstanding issues
• Complete and review VAT returns
• Maintain a full and accurate audit trail by filing and referencing documents
• Liaise with other departments within the business
• Travel to and work from client sites if required
• Prepare and review management accounts from information and documentation received from clients, ensuring that all relevant deadlines are met
• Complete each assignment before passing to the manager for review
• Develop and maintain good client relations
• Liaise with clients directly or through relevant manager to resolve queries or obtain further information
• Ensure a high level of service to meet client’s expectations
• Ensure that all hours worked on assignments are correctly recorded
• Training and supporting more junior members of staff and clients

Skills and experience required:

Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Previous proven book-keeping experience
• Numerate and analytical with excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Evidence of being a proactive, self-starter who can manage changing priorities
• Intermediate/advanced Excel, Xero, Sage 50

Skills and experience required:

Desirable

• Extensive knowledge of VAT
• Knowledge of payroll

This is an excellent full time and permanent opportunity to join a first class organisation – please apply now for immediate consideration!

Wild Recruitment Ltd T/A First Recruitment Services is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.