About the job
🏢 Company | Oury Clark
👥 Size | 150 - 200 employees
📌 Role | Finance Accounts Assistant (Pathway to AAT)
🔍 Focus Areas | Timesheet management, purchase and sales ledger, database upkeep, financial administration, general support. study towards AAT qualification
💡 Skills | IRIS time and fees, Xero, Approval Max, Zoho expenses, Clio (useful but not essential)
📍 Location | Slough
🌐 Hybrid | Flexible hybrid working arrangements
💼 Offer | Competitive salary with benefits
Oury Clark is a fast-growing and highly successful professional practice. We believe in solving problems through a mix of disciplines. You’ll work alongside an expert team of business advisors, including Chartered Accountants, Chartered Tax Advisers, Financial Advisors, Lawyers, Insolvency Practitioners, and more. Our clients are complex, but our workplace politics are not, and we intend to keep it that way. Above all else, we are looking for people with their heads and hearts in the right place.
Key Responsibilities:
* Timesheet Management: Ensure timesheets are received from all staff daily, enter them into our time system, reconcile, and produce month-end reports.
* Purchase Ledger: Code and input supplier invoices, review due dates, process payments, liaise with suppliers, ensure client costs are recharged, review and pay employee expenses, and perform supplier statement reconciliations.
* Sales Ledger: Raise sales invoices, post receipts daily, upload monthly charges onto clients’ WIP, liaise with clients on invoice queries, publish monthly cost reports, and produce daily receipts reports.
* Database Upkeep: Maintain client and supplier databases, including creating new accounts, amending addresses, and archiving closed accounts.
* Financial Administration: Ensure credit card spend is coded weekly and all spend is supported by receipts, reconcile and post petty cash and company credit cards, post receipts and payments, and open & close accounts.
* General Support: Liaise with internal and external stakeholders on ad-hoc queries, maintain digital filing records, and support the finance team, including credit control.
Requirements:
* Entry level role open to School Leavers or University Graduates
* Strong A Levels with a Maths/Science focus being preferred
* Previous accounts experience (sales and/or purchase ledger) is advantageous but not essential.
* Experience with systems such as IRIS time and fees, Xero, Approval Max, Zoho expenses, and Clio is useful but not essential.
* Organised with good attention to detail.
* Confident multi-tasker with a good understanding of Excel.
Benefits:
* Flexible hybrid working arrangements.
* 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
* Private healthcare.
* Client referral commission (6% of fees in the first 2 years).
* Recruitment commission.
* Life insurance (4x salary).
* Long-term service benefit.
* Helping Hand Fund (supporting staff in times of need).
* Please see our website for a full list of benefits.
Why Join Us?
* Be part of a team that takes their job seriously, but not themselves.
* Enjoy ample opportunities for career progression in a rapidly expanding firm.
* Work in a supportive environment with partners and colleagues who are committed to your success.