Job title: Bookkeeper

Remuneration:  £14 per hour (depending on experience)

Hours:  15 hours per week, over 2/3 days but can be flexible to suit the right candidate

Are you a qualified and experienced bookkeeper, looking for an all-rounder position in accounts? If so, we have an excellent opportunity to join a friendly and successful team and to enhance your personal development, including developing wider commercial experience, which you may not have access to, working in other industries.

Reporting directly to the Finance Manager, you will have a varied role which will involve being responsible for all day-to-day accounting duties, including inputting sales and purchase ledger, ensuring bills are paid on time, liaising with suppliers, and ensuring customer sales invoices are correct. You will also assist in the preparation of VAT and submission and payroll preparation.

To be successful in this role you will need excellent bookkeeping skills and have a good working knowledge of Xero software, be highly committed to quality and excellence, and work with initiative whilst having a down-to-earth "sleeves rolled up, can-do" attitude.  Strong interpersonal and written communication skills are absolutely necessary, as the role will involve extensive collaboration with the rest of the team and our external accountancy firm.   Our team motto is ‘no one of us is as smart as all of us’ and we demonstrate that by working in a highly collaborative, customer-centric and quality improvement-focused environment.

Evolution Capital is a market-leading corporate finance boutique, exclusively advising business owners and management teams in the ICT sector on business divestitures, mergers & acquisitions, fundraising as well as organic value improvement programmes.

We have offices in London and on the south coast in Chichester. This role is based from our Chichester office, so candidates need to live within an easy daily commute from the office.

 Responsibilities include:

• Maintaining the purchase ledger, processing purchase invoices, expenses, reconciliations and setting up the payment run.
• Creating invoices and allocating payments to the sales ledger accounts.
• Credit control.
• Bank reconciliations.
• Cash flow forecasting.
• Tracking and allocating client disbursements.
• Maintain financial security by establishing internal controls.
• Preparation of payroll reporting for external payroll service.
• Calculating and issuing company bonus scheme statements.

Skills & experience

• AAT qualified candidates preferred.
• Working knowledge of Xero accounting software.
• Excellent IT skills are required, particularly Excel.
• A proactive and friendly personality with strong interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and meet deadlines required.
• You must be highly organised, have great administration skills, value accuracy and able to work using your own initiative.