Job Description:

Job information Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship from the Company LMP Group, this latest Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship job vacancy is located in the city London N located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Assistant field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

Above Title Production Finance Ltd are seeking a full-time Accounts Assistant to join our finance team in delivering bookkeeping, production accounting and accountancy services to our many clients operating in theatre and live events.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly-motivated candidate with experience in delivering day-to-day bookkeeping services, who is looking to progress their career working in a busy industry and for a company with a varied and stimulating portfolio of clients.

Working week

Monday to Friday

10:00am -18:00pm

37.5 hours per week

Location

This role is predominantly remote with the exception of traveling to the office on occasion.

Wages

£6.40 per hour

rising to national minimum wage after 12 months

Qualification

Assistant accountant level 3

Duration 18 months

Training Provider: LMP Education

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Sales & Purchase Ledger

• Raising sales invoices, matching remittances and completing credit control
• Receiving, logging and securing authorisation for purchase invoices
• Assist with checking invoices entered by other members of the team, as appropriate, and oversee processes
• Review aged creditors / aged debtors and add notes for the Accountant to review
• Reviewing and recording venue settlements
• Setting-up bank payments for authorisation
• Dealing with queries, ensuring a prompt and professional response

Reconciliations

• Completing reconciliations for bank transactions, credit cards and petty cash
• Completing reconciliations of balance sheet accounts

Payroll & Pensions

• Compiling and processing payroll, generating payslips and responding to enquiries from employees
• Filing pension contributions with pension providers and submitting schedules for payment
• Communicating with clients regarding PAYE/NIC and pension obligations
• Ensure all pension correspondence required by law is sent out in the correct timeframe
• Ensure HMRC reporting and payments are dealt with in the correct timeframe

Reporting

• Ensuring all income and expenditure is recorded correctly, particularly with reference to budgets, VAT and Theatre Tax Relief
• Review trial balances to ensure no anomalies
• Preparing financial reports
• Drafting/reviewing royalty statements, investor return calculations and VAT returns
• Sending out communications to royalty holders with back up statements

Other

• Completing work in accordance with agreed financial policies and procedures
• Setting up budgets and chart of accounts on accounting platforms for clients
• Overseeing client mail boxes ensuring all queries are addressed and performing regular archiving of emails.
• Liaising with clients and responding to queries in a timely manner
• Completing a programme of continuing professional development and maintaining up-to-date technical knowledge in areas of responsibility

• Happy to be involved in company projects to evaluate new technology to improve efficiency

• Undertaking any other duties as may be reasonably required

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent attention to detail
• Fast and accurate data inputting and checking skills
• Excellent numeracy and written/verbal communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• An understanding of bookkeeping best practices and double-entry bookkeeping
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (and in particular Excel and Outlook)
• A working knowledge of Xero, QuickBooks Online and other accountancy software packages

Personal Qualities

• Pro-active and flexible with a ‘can do' attitude
• Able to plan, manage and complete a busy workload to meet deadlines without compromising accuracy
• Keen to learn and receptive to new challenges
• Able to work well with others and enjoys working as part of a team
• Able to work independently with own initiative
• Committed to providing consistently high level of service to clients
• Tactful and diplomatic
• An interest in theatre and live events

Education and qualifications

Maths and English at GCSE level A-C (4-9) or functional skills equivalent

About the employer

Above Title Production Finance brings an all-in-one finance service to the live events industry.

We recognise the importance that the theatre and live events producing industry places on specialists it can rely on for a fast, efficient and friendly service. Our dedicated production finance practitioners bring a wealth of knowledge and experience together, to create a one stop service.

From budgets to payroll, accounts payable to management accounts; we are on board for the duration of a live production, providing all production accounting services required.

www.abovetitlefinance.co.uk

Keywords : London jobs

Closed Date : 2025-02-12