Finance Assistant

Job description

The company and related businesses provide 24 Hour Taxi Services ranging from South London, Surrey, Sussex, Gatwick Airport and the South Coast of England. Historically a large customer base has been built resulting in over 800,000 Bookings being registered with the company.

The Operations Centre at Horley handles majority of the bookings by telephone, web and app based and spread out offices handles ‘walk in’ bookings. The bookings are registered within technology based icaabi recording and dispatch system with request pushed to the registered drivers via a drivers app.

Objectives of this Role, Responsibilities

 Ensure all the costs related to confirmed taxi bookings are individually and accurately recorded by the hour, day, week and month. Periodically check booking against data recorded on the iCabbi system.

 Ensure, for each booking the revenues are accurately recorded, and collected.

 Provide financial reports on daily, weekly and monthly basis by evaluating, analyzing, and reporting appropriate data points on the iCabbi booking system.

 Develop, implement, and maintain financial controls and guidelines on pricing in accordance with local competition and circumstances.

 Produce reports, take corrective action and continuously develop policies, practices and systems.

 Ensuring that all Credit Card and App bookings are reconciled daily with merchant accounts highlighting any discrepancies and reporting on all prepaid bookings.

 Dealing with drivers for all price related queries.

 Reporting on and Validation of App travel points and other discounts offered as promotions.

 Supporting the wider finance team in adhoc projects and information requests.

 Preparation of weekly payroll and processing weekly journals.

 Maintenance of Fixed asset register

 Adhoc duties in associate companies.

 BACS and CHAPS payments to suppliers

 Purchase ledger

 Sales ledger

 Reconciling customer statements

 Dealing with supplier queries

 Credit Control and other Adhoc Duties- Managing approximately 200 live accounts

 Bank reconciliations

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

 Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, or related field

 2+ years proven accounting experience

 Technical accounting certification, including AAT

 Working knowledge of finance law and regulatory standards (GAAP)

 Proficient in using Excel to Intermediate level( Pivot tables, v look ups)

 Experience in taxi industry would be advantageous.

 Knowledge of Sage cloud accounts

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £30,000.00-£32,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Horley: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 28/04/2023
Expected start date: 01/05/2023