Accounts Assistant - Maternity Cover

Title: Accounts Assistant – Maternity Cover​​
Reports to: Accountant
Location: Vitality Stadium, Kings Park, Bournemouth BH7 7AF​
Contract: Full Time - 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday (Fixed Term)

MAIN DUTIES

• Contribute to the control of the purchase ledger, including processing purchase invoices, matching to purchase orders, ensuring the correct approvals process is adhered to.
• Contribution to control of the sales ledger, including raising of invoices and credit control.
• Reconciliations of various ledger balances.
• Assisting with various other tasks such as bank and credit card reconciliations, fuel card claims and expenses processing.
• Supporting all other aspects of the department where required.
• Where still applicable in a largely cashless operation, assisting with cash in the business, to include cashing up events and matchdays, banking funds, ensuring sufficient change is available for all departments and monitoring petty cash.
• As a member of staff to ensure in all matters, you follow and actively promote the club’s mental health policies and practices to ensure an open, non-judgmental and inclusive environment for everyone engaged with the club.
• As a member of staff to ensure that you to adhere to the club’s safeguarding policies and procedures and are committed to our safeguarding values, creating a safe and positive environment for all those who interact with the club.
• Obligation to adhere to the club’s health and safety policy and procedures.
• As a member of staff to ensure in all matters you follow and actively promote the club’s equality policies and practices to ensure a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment for everyone engaged with the club.
The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

KEY KNOWLEDGE

• Working knowledge of using an accounting software package, we use Microsoft Dynamics GP.
• Ability to process invoices and expense claims in a timely fashion, applying relevant policies and legislation to ensure company rules and financial guidelines are being adhered to.
• Good communication skills to effectively deal with finance department colleagues, other Club personnel, the public and other stakeholders.
• Flexibility and a can-do attitude.
• Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Teams proficient.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

The Club’s values are at the core of its staff behaviour and how they approach everything they do, therefore we are looking for someone is honest, inclusive, kind, hardworking and loyal.