Job Title: Accounts Assistant
Department: Finance, UK
Reporting To: Senior Accounts Receivable Specialist / Senior Management Accountant and Data Analyst
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: Full Time (35 hours per week)
Location: Vauxhall, London (Hybrid Working 2 days plus in office after probation)
Closing Date: 1st July 2026
About Walker Books
Walker Books UK is part of the vibrant international Group that includes Candlewick Press, Holiday House and Peachtree in the USA and Walker Books Australia. Renowned for its truly original publishing and outstanding quality, the Walker Books Group is home to a wide range of children's and young adult books.
Award-winning authors and illustrators for the group include Angie Thomas, Sydney Smith, M.T Anderson, Patrick Ness, and Jon Klassen. We are also enormously proud to publish beloved family brands including Lucy Cousin’s Maisy, Michael Rosen’s We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram’s Guess How Much I Love You and Martin Handford’s Where’s Wally?
About the Role:
The Accounts Assistant supports the UK Finance team with day-to-day transactional finance activities, including sales reporting, invoice processing, supplier payments, staff expenses, credit card administration, reconciliations, and general finance administration.
The role provides support and cover across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, banking, and other ad hoc finance tasks, helping to ensure accurate financial records, timely processing, and the smooth operation of the finance function.
Key responsibilities:
- Produce daily and monthly sales reports, including data formatting, currency conversions and system uploads.
- Support invoicing processes for sub-rights and co-editions, and assist with related credit control activities.
- Provide Accounts Payable support, including processing supplier invoices, managing approvals, maintaining accurate records and assisting with payment runs and remittances.
- Support biannual processes such as royalty payments and payment practice reporting.
- Manage company credit card returns and staff expenses, ensuring accurate processing, complete documentation and timely follow-up.
- Assist with month-end activities, including reconciliations, journals and data checks, ensuring deadlines are met.
- Provide general finance administration and ad hoc support, including statutory reporting requirements and maintaining accurate financial records.
- Deliver high-quality support across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and wider finance operations, ensuring accuracy, efficiency and excellent stakeholder service at all times.
Please note the above is not an exhaustive list and does not necessarily include all the duties the job holder may have to perform. This job description may be amended to meet changing needs of the business.
Skills and Experience
To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate evidence of the following skills and/or experience:
- Previous experience in an Accounts Assistant, Finance Assistant, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, or other transactional finance role.
- Good understanding of basic bookkeeping principles.
- Experience of reconciliations and general financial administration.
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills.
- Comfortable using multiple systems and learning new finance software and tools.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage a varied workload while meeting deadlines.
- Experience with Biblio, Dimensions, FocalPoint, and Certify would be beneficial but is not essential.
- A practical, reliable team player with a positive, flexible approach and a willingness to support colleagues and contribute wherever needed.
Why join Walker Books?
We offer:
- A supportive working environment where all voices are respected and creativity is not hierarchical
- Hybrid work (at least two days in the office per week) once you have successfully passed probation
- 22 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (with annual leave increasing with length of service up to 27 days)
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- Health Insurance and Health Cash Plan
- Life Assurance
- Summer Hours
- Remote working for up to two weeks per year
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Plus, other great benefits!
All children deserve to see themselves, their families, and their communities represented in the books they read. As children’s book publishers, it is our goal to ensure that the books and content we publish authentically and joyfully reflect the world around us. As an employer, we are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive working environment where everyone is included, valued, and empowered to do their best and most creative work. As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds without regard to race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, sex, or any other characteristic protected by law and those not yet protected by law.
If you have any queries about this role or require any reasonable adjustments for your application or throughout the recruitment process, please let our team know by contacting us at [email protected].
Please note we reserve the right to close vacancies before the closing date where we have received sufficient applications. We recommend submitting your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
