Job Title: Accounts Manager
Work Pattern: Part-Time to Permanent
Salary: Negotiable (based on experience)
No. of Hours: 37.5 hrs a week
JOB DESCRIPTION
The role is primarily to be responsible for all aspects of accounting duties and most importantly for credit control managements, provide effective support to Managing Director, is able to supervise junior account assistants and ensure the office running efficiently and smoothly on a daily basis.

Main Level of contact:
Internal: Report to Managing Director, Company accountant
External: Liaising with Customers, Suppliers, Inland Revenue
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
 Maintaining Sales Ledger, post and allocate customer payments on SAGE, make sure accounts balance of each client always accurate and up to date
 Credit control; reconcile customer accounts on a regular basis, by both issuing monthly statements or phone calls to chasing for any outstanding invoice; liaising with clients and solving various queries and disputed invoices/timesheets, ensure outstanding customer payment collected in a timely fashion
 Maintaining purchase ledger, posting invoices and payments, reconciling supplier statements and ensuring that suppliers are paid in accordance with the agreed payment terms, liaising with suppliers and ensuring that all queries are satisfactorily resolved
 Maintain nominal ledgers and bank accounts, keep all postings and reconciliations up to date, prepare appropriate reconciliation and analysis
 Preparing management accounts, profit and loss report, monthly trading information, generate effective financial report and information which are able to provide support to management making decision, assisting managing director with preparation of budgets, preparing and monitor cash flow forecast, setting up and maintaining regional/branch reporting system
 Liaising with external accountant, provide reports and information required, and assisting with year end process
 Maintaining of relevant filing systems, complete any other designated tasks as appropriated
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
 Must be a qualified or part - qualified accountant or qualified by experience,
 Must have extensive experience of SAGE LINE 50, strong and solid knowledge of accounting,
 Integrity, responsible, honest individual with high professional ethics
 Very good understanding about accounting double entries
 Must have extremely good attention to details, have extensive reconciliation experience, accuracy, good numeracy, and work towards deadlines
 Good organisational and planning skills including the ability to prioritise workloads and manage own time within a busy and pressured environment
 Good telephone and interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively at all levels; both orally and in writing, able to create good working relationship with clients.
 Must be very good at maintaining of relevant filing systems
 Very good computer literate with fast, accurate typing skills; excellent knowledge and skills in utilising Microsoft office, excel, word...
Other desirable knowledge, skills and experience
 Enthusiastic, self-motivated, willingness to work hard,
 Individual with excellent inter-personal skills, polite, friendly, can operate well as part of team as well as work on own initiative is desirable
 Commercially minded, common sense, pro-active, flexible approach, with a willing to learn attitude
 Knowledge/experience of accounting in Home Care & Social Care industry, knowledge of STAFFPLAN programme would be an advantage but not essential
 Excellent knowledge in accounting and SAGE LINE 50, very good understanding about accounts double entries, able to spot any mistake and error on accounts and system, and able to perform relevant adjustment and ensure accounting system running accurately

Interested persons should contact Daniel @ Unique Personnel (UK) Ltd, 256 Brixton Hill, London SW2 1HF.

Vacancy closes Friday, 27th November 2009. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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