Assistant Accountant

by Institution of Civil Engineers

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Deadline: 8th March 2017
Salary: Competitive
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Accounting, Banking
Location: London
City: Westminster

About Institution of Civil Engineers

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is the charitable Body to the Civil Engineering sector, recognised nationally and internationally, enabling professional qualification and development whilst promoting and maintaining standards and ethics; providers of expert knowledge, educational support, welfare for members, professional advice, research and opinion; venue host for onsite conferences and other events; publishers; providers of specialist engineering contracts; training, consultancy and recruitment services; creators of specialist written material, benefactors, property owners, landowners and landlords.
ICE was formed in 1818 and now has over 80,000 members in more than 150 countries. Our members play a hugely important part in society: they shape our world and save millions of lives.

Assistant Accountant

Role 1 (six months)

  • Cashiering –downloading and posting bank receipts, allocating customer payments to invoices, reconciling bank accounts
  • Credit control –chasing debt from your section of the Sales Ledger
  • Society accountant –responsible for all accounting functions for a small entity including producing monthly accounts, trial balance and statutory accounts
  • Any other reasonable task

Role 2 (six months)

  • Support month end tasks including; assisting with royalty calculations, processing and reconciling intra-group accounts, balance sheet reconciliations to meet the department deadlines, ad hoc reports
  • Produce management accounts for specific departments within the group
  • Any other reasonable task

Key Technical Skills

  • Confident user of Excel, basic Word skills, basic database knowledge and the capability to understand financial systems is essential
  • Knowledge of double entry bookkeeping principles is desirable

Essential Requirements

  • Good time management skills and workload prioritisation are essential in order to meet deadlines
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Accurate worker who pays attention to detail and is able to communicate at all levels
  • Team player

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