Accounts Manager / Book-keeper in City of London

Purpose of the role: To run the Accounts process

Reporting to: Partners

Overview of the role: Overseeing all financial matters in the business.

Typical Responsibilities:

• Cashflow
• Processing sales invoices and receipts
• Credit control
• Processing purchase invoices and payments
• Accounts
• Entering all data into Quickbooks accounting software, including allocating new project numbers
• Updating databases with relevant information
• Developing monthly financial statements including cash flow, profit and loss and balance sheets
• Helping the Accountant with administrative duties and preparing yearly accounts
• Banking
• Bank reconciliations
• Tracking bank account balances
• Compliance
• Completing VAT returns
• Submission of tax information to HMRC
• Payroll and expenses
• Preparing employee salaries
• Managing employee expense claims
• HRA working knowledge of HR and Employment Law
• Setting new starters up on Quickbooks
• Drafting staff contracts
• Managing the company health insurance scheme
• Other occasional duties

Technical:

• Competent and skilled at using:
• Mac OS
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Excel
• Quickbooks
• Notion
• Microsoft Word

Client-facing: represents the practice professionally and competently

Communicates well with clients and other collaborators

Excellent English language skills; drafting professional emails and documents

Recognises potential issues before they become a problem; communicates promptly with the Partners

Helpful, reliable and friendly; approachable with a proactive and positive attitude; sensitive to others; co-operative and receptive to feedback

Management:

• Takes personal responsibility and is accountable for own actions
• Ensures no task is undertaken without first agreeing a 'SMART' brief.
• Aware of the Pareto Principle and able to implement its lessons
• Organised and tidy; meets agreed deadlines
• Understands and is engaged with the practice's vision and contributes towards achieving its goals
• Proactively seeks new opportunities to expand personal and professional development and willingly shares new-found knowledge and skills with colleagues.

TO APPLY: If this position is of interest to you, please email your CV and portfolio to us (maximum attachment size 5Mb). We receive a large number of applications; as a consequence we will only consider applications that answer the following questions:

• 1) Why do you want to come to work for LA London?
• 2) Describe any professional experience you have that is relevant to what we do.
• 3) What skills and personal attributes do you have that we can benefit from?
• 4) What are your career goals and how do you plan to accomplish them?
• 5) What professional experience of using ARCHICAD do you have?
• 6) Tell us something interesting about yourself.

Only after we have received your replies to these questions will we open your CV and take your application to the next stage, which will normally be a short telephone interview.

Please send your application to careers@la.london, with the subject as “RECRUITMENT – SIX QUESTIONS”.