Accounts Assistant

Overview

Role: Accounts Assistant

Location: Harwell (hybrid working)

Salary range: £20,000 - £25,000 plus excellent benefits

Role ID: 2023 - 1973

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Energy & Environment, one of Ricardo plc’s five operating business units, is a leader in sustainability consultancy, solving complex environmental challenges through industry-leading analysis, advice and data. With more than 40 years of heritage in addressing air quality, environmental and sustainability issues, our customers value us for our deep understanding and breadth of services covering the entire value chain from evidence, policy & strategy to implementation.

We are currently looking for an Accounts Assistant to join our Finance team, to provide accounting support to ensure the smooth running of the business. As an Accounts Assistant you will be responsible for maintaining the purchase ledger, processing employee expenses and raising sales invoices. We are open to considering candidates seeking a temp-perm opportunity and who are immediately available to start.

Key responsibilities

• Preparation of sales invoices including compliance with VAT guidance.
• Ensure all purchase invoices are processed within agreed guidance.
• Ensure all employee expenses and credit/purchase cards are processed within agreed guidance.
• Resolve queries from employees and suppliers and proactively deal with account discrepancies.
• Support preparation of weekly payment runs.
• Administration of credit/purchase card accounts.
• Preparation of monthly reports including PSA data, control account reconciliations and analysis.
• Creates new projects and work orders in Agresso.
• Backup for timesheet processing in times of absence.
• Ad-hoc support to other roles in finance during periods of leave.
• Any other ad hoc duties as and when required.

Key competencies and experience

• Experience of using accounting software.
• Previous accounts experience.
• Good knowledge of HMRC guidance on VAT.
• Strong computer skills, especially within Outlook and Excel.

Skills and behaviours

• Have a strong can-do attitude as well as being a team player to support colleagues.
• Have strong organisational and communication skills.
• Be highly motivated and reliable.
• Have a good ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• Experience of Agresso/Unit 4 ERP and Microsoft Dynamics – but not essential.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.