Accounts Assistant

The Team & Focus of the Role

Our leading Rural Client Accounts team is offering an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Assistant to take a key role in the financial management of diverse client portfolios and the properties within them.

This role will include responsibility for specific ledger balances and associated financial transactions, reporting the financial data directly to the client with commentary and supporting documentation. The role will involve liaison with external clients and internal clients such as Asset Managers and Property Managers.

This is a permanent, full-time role (37.5 hours), based at our office in Ashby de la Zouch. We also operate a hybrid working policy.

In return, beyond your base salary you will be included in:

* A discretionary bonus scheme

* A generous holiday scheme which commences at 25 days with a sliding scale up to 30 days plus an additional day for your birthday, and additional days to cover the festive period!

* Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave

* An online money saving portal

* Death In Service cover, alongside access to an Employee Assistance Programme which includes health appoints for you and your family

* Volunteering Leave equating to 2 days per year (pro rata if you’re part-time)

Duties will include:

* Recording of transactions

* Bank reconciliations

* Ensuring accurate and timely processing of payments, accounts and records

* Liaise with third party providers, clients and suppliers

* Preparation of reports

* Filing of VAT returns, including partial exempt calculations

* Reconciliation of supplier, tenant and customer accounts

The successful candidate will have...

* Experience in using Xero

* An understanding of Property and Rural Accounting (desirable)

* An understanding of financial reports and ability to interpret those reports

* Strong experience with Microsoft Excel

* Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to engage effectively with surveyors, clients, and third parties

* Ability to multi-task and prioritise, with excellent time management skills

* Strong attention to detail, be diligent and precise in how work is delivered

* Able to work autonomously and as part of a team

Why Fisher German?

We’ve been around for a while, but it doesn’t mean we are behind the times! Across our office network we offer a hybrid working approach to help our colleagues design their working day to suit their diaries. Some days you might be in the office enjoying a collaborative team day, and other days might see you focussing on project work at home. Wherever you choose to work, you’ll be part of a social and digitally connected workforce with the chance to get involved in a variety of activities, like sports events, pop-up bars, BBQs, CPD days, live leadership updates on Zoom, picnics in the park and lots more.

What’s not to love? We work hard but we also have lots of fun! If that sounds like something you would enjoy, then please get in touch.

We have a history going back as far as 1830 but have been Fisher German since 2000. We operate UK wide advising and managing a range of client portfolios with national visibility across all the 12-property market sectors; agriculture, commercial, education, green energy & sustainability, healthcare, minerals & waste, public sector, residential, rural, telecoms, third sector and utilities and infrastructure.

Bring Yourself to Work

It’s simple really, we are passionate about what we do, and we want you to be driven to succeed with us. For this to happen, you need to feel supported and included which is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer