Job Description

Assistant Accountant / Bookkeeper UK Accounts

Department: Finance

Reports to: Head of Operations

Employment type: Full-time, in-house

1. Job Purpose

The postholder will be responsible for the day-to-day bookkeeping, credit control, and VAT return preparation for a multi-entity UK e-commerce company group, trading as Bargainia/Bravich/Drinks Partner across Shopify, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop, and major UK marketplaces, plus a wholesale B2B operation.

The role combines high-volume, largely automated transactional processing with a smaller proportion of judgement-based work, including VAT treatment review, reconciliation sign-off, and intercompany account management across the group's related entities. The postholder will be expected to work independently, apply qualified judgement where the correct treatment isn't immediately obvious, and flag discrepancies proactively rather than waiting to be corrected.

2. Key Responsibilities

Transactional processing (approx. 50%)

- Perform bank reconciliations across group entities
- Process bank statement uploads
- Raise sales and purchase invoices
- Process supplier and customer payments

Credit control (approx. 30%)

- Chase outstanding customer balances
- Allocate incoming payments against the correct invoices
- Manage and resolve customer account queries
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date aged debt records

VAT return preparation and review (approx. 10%)

- Reconcile VAT control accounts ahead of return submission
- Apply judgement on input/output VAT treatment where classification is not clear-cut
- Identify and flag anomalies before figures are passed for submission

Judgement-based supporting work (approx. 10%)

- Review reconciliations for discrepancies before sign-off
- Determine correct nominal code and cost centre allocation in ambiguous cases
- Manage intercompany reconciliations, balances,



and transactions across group entities
- Produce ad hoc reporting as required

3. Person Specification

Essential

- 3+ years' bookkeeping/accounts experience, including 3+ years working specifically on UK company accounts
- Live, hands-on experience with both Xero and Sage
- Working understanding of chart of accounts, nominal codes, and cost centres, with the judgement to determine correct allocation in ambiguous cases
- Strong attention to detail at volume; accuracy takes precedence over speed
- Familiarity with OrderWise or a similar ERP/OMS system
- Experience with invoicing and payment processing
- Demonstrable credit control experience
- Bank reconciliation experience
- VAT return preparation experience
- Advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, pivot tables, SUMIFS)
- AAT Level 4, ACCA, or ATT in final stages of qualification or fully qualified
- Experience managing intercompany accounts, including reconciliations, balances, and transactions across related entities

Desirable

- Experience assisting with (though not necessarily owning) month-end close
- Exposure to MI (management information) reporting
- B.Com/M.Com or equivalent degree

Personal attributes

- Reviews own work fully for completeness and accuracy before submission, rather than only correcting what is explicitly flagged
- Proactively raises queries or flags discrepancies rather than guessing at treatment
- Fluent written and spoken business English, comfortable corresponding directly with UK-based colleagues and clients
- Trustworthy with confidential UK company financial data
- Able to work independently with a UK company group and manage own workload against deadlines

4. Terms

- Salary: [to confirm — flexible for the right candidate, above standard entry-level rates]
- Working hours: 6 days a week

This job description reflects the current requirements of the role and may be reviewed and amended in line with business needs.

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