Bookkeeper

• Playing a central role within a growing professional services environment, this part-time position supports the Financial Manager with daily transactional processing.
• Multi-Currency Invoice Administration: Raise and issue client invoices using Xero, across multiple foreign currencies.
• Debtor and Creditor Maintenance: Maintain accurate, up-to-date ledger records, actively tracking outstanding balances and following up systematically on overdue payments.
• Supplier and Expense Processing: Process supplier invoices for payment and manage incoming expense claims from employees and sub-contractors, verifying entries against supporting receipts and internal policies prior to payment disbursement.
• Bank Reconciliation Management: Execute daily bank transaction reconciliations, ensuring foreign currency accounts, receipts, and payments match correct accounts using accurate exchange rates.
• Risk and Exception Flagging: Identify and flag overdue debtors and creditors to financial leadership on a regular, pre-defined schedule to mitigate cash flow risks.
• Audit Readiness Enforcement: Maintain clean, appropriately categorised ledger records to ensure the accounting system remains audit-ready at all times.
• Month-End Close Support: Facilitate successful month-end ledger closures by ensuring all transactions for the period are fully captured, allocated, and reconciled.
• Query Resolution Correspondence: Respond to routine supplier and client billing inquiries, including resolving internal expense claim queries raised by employees and sub-contractors.

• Daily Transaction Tracking: Capture, monitor, and process daily financial activities, including client purchases, corporate expenses, sales revenues, supplier invoices, and outgoing payments.
• Ledger Governance & Processing: Process journal entries and continuously update and maintain the general ledger to ensure strict structural accounting alignment.
• Bank & Account Reconciliations: Perform regular bank account reconciliations and verify transaction entries across accounting applications to ensure maximum data integrity.
• Working Capital Optimization: Send out accurate invoices to manage the accounts receivable ledger effectively, while systematically overseeing the accounts payable pipeline.
• Trial Balance Maintenance: Conduct comprehensive general ledger reconciliations to successfully maintain the trial balance and execute total account reconciliations to verify historical transaction accuracy.
• Cash Flow Monitoring: Track, analyze, and report on organizational cash flow trends to safeguard financial liquidity.
• Financial Year-End Prep: Compile, structure, and prepare complete sets of books up to Trial Balance for final review by the senior Accountant to streamline Annual Financial Statements (AFS) production.

• Maintain accurate financial records across bookkeeping, accounting, and operational finance activities
• Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable processes to support timely billing, collections, vendor payments, and cash flow visibility
• Perform bank, credit card, vendor, customer, and inventory-related reconciliations with a high level of accuracy
• Support month-end close by reviewing transactions, correcting discrepancies, and preparing clean financial data
• Use QuickBooks Online and/or Desktop to enter, review, organize, and maintain accounting records
• Prepare financial reports and accounting summaries that help leadership understand business performance
• Support inventory-related accounting processes, including cost tracking, purchase records, and transaction accuracy
• Identify bookkeeping inconsistencies, process gaps, or reporting issues and help improve accounting workflows
• Organize financial documents, records, and supporting schedules so information is easy to access and audit-ready
• Communicate clearly with internal teams about accounting questions, missing information, and financial documentation needs

Accountant, Bookkeeper

• Maintain accurate bookkeeping records across multiple accounts and entities
• Perform daily, weekly and monthly reconciliations
• Manage accounts payable and expense processing
• Support accounts receivable activities and payment tracking
• Prepare monthly management accounts and supporting schedules
• Prepare and submit VAT returns
• Ensure compliance with HMRC requirements and UK accounting standards
• Support Making Tax Digital (MTD) compliance
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies and financial queries
• Maintain audit-ready financial records and documentation
• Assist with month-end and year-end close processes
• Liaise with external accountants and finance stakeholders as required
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes and operational efficiency

• Bookkeeping and transactional processing
• Issuing invoices on behalf of clients
• Raising bills on accounting software for clients
• Monthly bank reconciliations
• Monthly cryptocurrency wallet reconciliations
• Processing manual journals
• Raising accruals and prepayments
• Preparing monthly management accounts
• Assisting with financial statement preparation

Bookkeeper – Accounting Assistant

• Manage full-cycle bookkeeping for multiple US-based clients across various industries.
• Maintain accurate financial records within QuickBooks Online.
• Perform bank, credit card, loan, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable functions.
• Reconcile assets, liabilities, mortgages, and undeposited funds.
• Prepare and maintain profit and loss statements and balance sheet reports.
• Process and reconcile payroll-related transactions and journals.
• Review and analyse financial data to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Work with multiple point-of-sale systems and reconcile sales reporting.
• Support month-end and year-end bookkeeping processes.
• Maintain organised documentation and audit-ready financial records.
• Communicate professionally with internal stakeholders regarding bookkeeping matters.

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