Senior Bookkeeper at Kontak Recruitment

• Join a fast-growing outsourced finance team supporting UK tech start-ups and consultancies.
• Own a structured portfolio of clients and strengthen your international accounting skills.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bookkeeping or Accounting qualification
• 3+ years’ bookkeeping or accounting experience
• Xero experience non-negotiable
• QuickBooks and DEXT experience preferred
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Strong accrual-based accounting knowledge including accruals, prepayments and deferred income
• Previous accounting or bookkeeping firm managing multiple clients
• Experience with multi-currency processing

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Process supplier invoices accurately and allocate expenses consistently
• Capture and process VAT transactions accurately
• Process and reconcile supplier accounts
• Upload bank statements to Xero
• Post bank transactions and reconcile bank balances to statements
• Prepare, track and resolve weekly processing queries
• Post month-end journals including accruals, prepayments and intercompany entries
• Run general ledger, accounts payable and accounts receivable reports
• Analyse aged receivables and payables and flag risks or issues
• Prepare bi-weekly payment runs
• Handle day-to-day admin tasks linked to bookkeeping delivery and client support