Accounts Assistant

Reporting to the Finance Manager, the Accounts Assistant will carry out duties including:

• Data processing purchase invoices using Xero
• Producing sales invoices and ensuring all payments are received in accordance with contract conditions, following up where necessary
• Recording supplier invoices and making payment runs
• Bank reconciliations for bank and credit card accounts
• Process, post and reconcile petty cash returns
• Monthly processing of timesheets, mileage and expenses claims; liaising with payroll
• Monthly reconciliation of control accounts and assisting with management account preparation and monthly journals
• Managing the contracts and services regarding the fleet of company cars and company mobile phones
  
  To be successful as our Accounts Assistant, you will be at least a year into your Accounts and Finance career, perhaps looking to further develop your career in Finance.
In addition, we are looking for the following skills and attributes:
• Willing to learn, interested in continuous professional development
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (Excel, Outlook and Word)
• Good working knowledge of finance software preferably Xero
• Some Payroll experience is advantageous
• Copes well under pressure, enjoys working to deadlines
• Excellent customer service and effective communication skills with a high standard of written and spoken English
• Highly self-motivated, proactive, personable and a team player
• Conscientious, excellent attention to detail and a methodical approach with the ability to see tasks through to completion, Candidates must be within commutable distance and must have the right to live and work in the UK. If this criteria is not met, your application will not be considered.
  
  It's exciting times for Beaufort Care Group as we look to expand into the Hampshire region. At our Head Office in Ringwood, we have a number of departments supporting our Children's Homes and Supported Living Services across the region and we are now recruiting for an Accounts Assistant to join our established team.
Why join us
• We recognise the importance of market-leading pay, above the real living wage
• Career investment - we will fund additional training to AAT Level 2, providing time for study leave
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Free on-site parking
• Casual dress
• Company funded Blue Light Card
• Long-service awards up to £2000
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Long term job security with an expanding company
• Company events
• Birthday voucher, Beaufort Care Group has over 20 years' experience in providing high quality, residential childcare, supporting looked-after children and young people from 6 to 18 years old, with our focus centred on the needs of the child.
We offer a therapeutic approach to care aimed at improving the lives of the individual children that live with us. Our priority is to ensure that our young people feel safe, secure, happy and able to achieve their best. Our Head Office is based in Ringwood, and we are currently expanding our portfolio of children's homes, providing excellent opportunities for career growth across the business. Safer recruitment We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the people we care for, creating a setting in which everyone feels welcome and safe. Successful candidates are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes the disclosure of criminal records, safeguarding/barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing, eligibility to work in the UK and identification checks. Safeguarding at Beaufort Care Group is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the organisation. We make sure that all our staff are trained and supervised to a high standard so they can provide safe, effective practice. Equal Opportunities Beaufort Care Group Ltd supports Equal Opportunities in Employment and opposes all forms of unlawful discrimination on grounds such as race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief and age. You are expected to comply to the Companies EO Policy and Guide to Equality document.