Purpose of the role:To run the Accounts process
Reporting to: Partners
Overview of the role: Overseeing all financial matters in the business.
Typical Responsibilities
Cashflow
Processing sales invoices and receipts
Credit control
Processing purchase invoices and payments
Accounts
Entering all data into Quickbooks accounting software, including allocating new project numbers
Updating databases with relevant information
Developing monthly financial statements including cash flow, profit and loss and balance sheets
Helping the Accountant with administrative duties and preparing yearly accounts
Banking
Bank reconciliations
Tracking bank account balances
Compliance
Completing VAT returns
Submission of tax information to HMRC
Payroll and expenses
Preparing employee salaries
Managing employee expense claims
HR
A working knowledge of HR and Employment Law
Setting new starters up on Quickbooks
Drafting staff contracts
Managing the company health insurance scheme
Other occasional duties
Phone answering
Technical
Competent and skilled at using:
Mac OS
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Excel
Quickbooks
Notion
Microsoft Word
Client-facing: represents the practice professionally and competently
Communicates well with clients and other collaborators
Excellent English language skills; drafting professional emails and documents
Recognises potential issues before they become a problem; communicates promptly with the Partners
Helpful, reliable and friendly; approachable with a proactive and positive attitude; sensitive to others; co-operative and receptive to feedback
Management
Takes personal responsibility and is accountable for own actions
Ensures no task is undertaken without first agreeing a 'SMART' brief.
Aware of the Pareto Principle and able to implement its lessons
Organised and tidy; meets agreed deadlines
Understands and is engaged with the practice's vision and contributes towards achieving its goals
Proactively seeks new opportunities to expand personal and professional development and willingly shares new-found knowledge and skills with colleagues.
TO APPLY
If this position is of interest to you, please email your CV and portfolio to us (maximum attachment size 5Mb). We receive a large number of applications; as a consequence we will onlyconsider applications that answer the following questions:
1) Why do you want to come to work for LA London?
2) Describe any professional experience you have that is relevant to what we do.
3) What skills and personal attributes do you have that we can benefit from?
4) What are your career goals and how do you plan to accomplish them?
5) What professional experience of using ARCHICAD do you have?
6) Tell us something interesting about yourself.
Only after we have received your replies to these questions will we open your CV and take your application to the next stage, which will normally be a short telephone interview.
Please send your application to careers@la.london, with the subject as “RECRUITMENT – SIX QUESTIONS”.
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