Internal Accountant in London

This is a hands-on role suited to someone who combines strong bookkeeping discipline with the ability to investigate discrepancies, improve processes and work closely with colleagues across finance, purchasing, sales and operations.

Duties:

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date bookkeeping records across the nominal, purchase and sales ledgers.
• Post and review supplier invoices, credit notes, customer receipts, bank transactions, journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Complete regular bank, cash, card, supplier and customer account reconciliations and resolve differences promptly.
• Manage accounts payable activities, including statement reconciliations, payment-run preparation and supplier query resolution.
• Support accounts receivable and credit control by monitoring aged debt, allocating receipts and following up overdue balances.
• Assist with daily and weekly cash-flow visibility, including expected receipts, committed payments and emerging risks.
• Support month-end close by preparing reconciliations, schedules, journals and variance explanations to agreed deadlines.
• Help prepare management accounts and internal reports, including profit and loss, balance-sheet and working-capital information.
• Prepare information for VAT returns and other routine finance submissions, ensuring records are complete and appropriately supported. Maintain accurate records for stock, cost of sales and inventory-related transactions, working with warehouse and purchasing colleagues to investigate discrepancies.
• Assist with payroll inputs and reconciliations, expenses and other employee-related finance administration as required.
• Support year-end preparation and provide schedules and evidence requested by external accountants, auditors or advisers.
• Maintain orderly digital records and a clear audit trail in line with company policies, legal requirements and internal controls.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen controls, streamline processes and improve the accuracy and timeliness of reporting, including during finance-system or ERP changes

Experiences:

• Proven experience in a bookkeeping, accounts assistant, assistant accountant or similar hands-on finance role.
• Strong working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping, purchase ledger, sales ledger and bank reconciliations.
• Experience supporting month-end close and producing balance-sheet reconciliations and accounting schedules.
• Good understanding of VAT and the importance of complete, accurate supporting records.
• Confident user of accounting or ERP software and Microsoft Excel; experience of system implementation or process change would be advantageous.
• AAT qualification, relevant accounting studies or equivalent experience is desirable.
• Part-qualified ACCA or CIMA candidates may also be considered.
• Experience in wholesale, food distribution, retail, logistics or another high-volume trading environment would be beneficial.
• Additional language skill such at Turkish would be an advantage

This is a permanent role, office based Mon-Fri.