Accounts Assistant - Tring, Hertfordshire

Accounts Assistant - Tring, Hertfordshire 

Job Type: 20hrs per week over 3 days on a 6 month temporary contract

Salary: £12.71 per hour (annual salary £13,218.40)

What are we looking for

We require a motivated, cheerful person who is proactive and flexible to join our busy finance team.

To successfully fill this role, you should maintain the attitude, behaviours, skills, and values that follow:

• Positive attitude, flexible, helpful and enthusiastic
• Experience in the hotel / leisure / retail sector
• Possess strong organisational skills
• A good understanding of financial operating systems and procedures
• Strong influencing, inter-personal and communication skills
• Computer literate- Outlook, Word, Excel
• Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills

It would be advantageous in this position for you to demonstrate the following capabilities and distinctions:

• Previous Accounts/Finance experience in a high volume department, preferably within a hotel environment
• Experience with Sage 200 system U
• Understanding of system Opera for accounts receivable

Purpose of the job

The Finance Assistant (FA), will provide general assistance in all areas of the hotel accounting function enabling the Cluster Financial Controller to provide timely and accurate financial information to the Local management of the Hotel, General Manager, Finance Director and Owners. The FA will support all, in maintaining sound control, procedures, adhering to Company policy in respect of administrative, accounting and legal matters and exercising proper management over the business assets.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To collect, process and consolidate daily Reception and F&B Banking and ensure all documentation is filled prior to banking
• To Check, investigate, post corrections, balance and compile a reconciliation consolidated report for Credit Cards daily
• To prepare Banking journals daily
• To prepare and control the change and Float requirements for Front Office and Outlets in the Hotel
• To issue, control and reconcile all Petty Cash payments
• Reply to all Disputed Credit Card queries in time provided by Bank.
• Matching  invoices with purchase orders and delivery notes
• Posting of  invoices and credit notes in finance system
• Preparing BACS and Cheques  payments for approval
• Supplier statement reconciliation and queries
• Processing of guest deposits, sales ledger invoices and payments in Opera
• To check if all Revenues have been posted to the correct Revenue Streams
• Assist in posting journal  in Accounting system during & at month end
• Keeping filing up to date