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Assistant Accountant-Maternity Cover, Croydon CR0 0XJ

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Croydon CR0 0XJ, United Kingdom
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Job Description:

Caridon Property are a fast growing, award winning property

letting and management firm based in Croydon, South London. We own and manage more than 2000 properties across London and the South East and are looking for enthusiastic hard working individuals to join our team who have a hunger to succeed.

TITLE: Assistant Accountant

ROLE: To keep financial data up to date

REPORTS TO: Group Financial Controller

REPORTS IN: None

HOURS: Full time - 40 hours. Monday to Friday

LOCATION: Head Office in Croydon

SALARY: £26,000 per annum

Caridon Property has doubled its turnover and portfolio size in the last four years. Due to this rapid increase in size, the finance team is now growing to improve the company’s reporting ability to aide with future growth.

This is a great opportunity for a qualified person with some bookkeeping and accounts maintenance experience to take responsibility for the full reporting function and develop the role over time to become a Finance Manager or a Financial Controller. We are committed to helping the successful candidate develop their skills and experience.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Collaborate with Financial Managers and other team members to successfully execute various accounting tasks including but not limited to bookkeeping, postings etc.
Maintain company ledgers and daily financial transactions.
Create financial documents such as bills, invoices, Accounts payables, Accounts receivables and purchase orders where needed.
Identify discrepancies in ledgers and accounts, tracking them to the source and correcting them.
Coordinate and manage payment and billing details of external service providers, contractors and vendors.
Verify payments and deposits made through the company account.
Monthly reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts
Month end journals including payroll, accruals, prepayments, depreciation, etc

Qualifications

BSc in Accounting and Finance /AAT required.
Minimum three year experience as Accounts Assistant.
Experience in Xero essential
Intermediate level Excel ability
Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads under pressure
Willingness to learn and develop

GENERAL

To contribute to the strategic direction of Caridon.
To carry out specific tasks required by your Group Financial Controller in general administration.
To facilitate good relationships across all departments and sister companies.
To demonstrate and actively encourage a good team spirit and support for the Company at all times.
To be approachable and empathetic to the sales, finance and maintenance teams.
To be responsible with your time keeping at all times.

Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 9 months

Pay: £26,000.00 per year

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