Part-time Bookkeeper – (Ref 1. CF)

What you’ll be doing:

Bookkeepers are responsible for maintaining an organisation’s key accounting records, known as ledgers. Day-to-day activities include recording transactions such as income and outgoings, and posting them to various accounts. Being a broad and varied role, a Bookkeeper job description should emphasise the need for a strong sense of time management and organisational skills, and with exposure to many aspects of the accounting.

A typical breakdown of your role would be:

• Recording transactions  income and outgoings, and posting them to ledgers on Sage Accounts
• Processing payments
• Conducting daily banking activities
• Producing various financial reports
• Reconciling reports to third-party records such as bank statements.
• Preparing employee wages
• Managing employee expense claims
• Helping the Finance Manager with administrative duties and preparing yearly accounts
• Completing VAT returns
• Maintaining the company’s financials for the Apprenticeship Levy Scheme

What skills and experience do you need?

Essential skills:

• Must be able to hold an SC Security Clearance
• Good attention to detail to enter correct data into financial records and recognise errors
• Mathematics skills for accurate record-keeping
• Administrative skills for filing financial records
• Computer literacy, especially familiarity with spreadsheets, and accounting software such as Microsoft Office, Excel and Sage
• Multi-tasking and organisational skills to manage different financial duties, including the ability to prioritise tasks in order to meet deadlines
• Interpersonal and customer service skills for dealing with customers, suppliers and other employees in the company
• Communication skills, including the ability to explain complex financial matters in accessible terms
• To be honest, discreet and trustworthy
• Ideally qualified to AAT Bookkeeping level

A bit about us

Prolinx offers a great opportunity to grow your career and can offer many prospects for the future. If you’re ambitious, highly self-motivated and ready for a challenge then this is the time to join an exciting and vibrant company and have the opportunity to work for a UK market leader in secure managed services.

We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our growing team. As a UK based SME, we are keen to expand our network and develop our services so we need people we can rely on, who work well in a small team and who are confident in what they do.

You will be a part of a great company, where your skills and experience will be tested and valued.