Role: Accounts Assistant 

Location: Harwell - hybrid working

Salary range: £24,000 - £29,000 

Role ID:  2024 - 2497

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. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Preparation of sales invoices including compliance with VAT guidance. 
• Responsibility for complex invoicing processes, including external and intercompany invoicing from overseas subsidiary companies. 
• Escalation point for queries or issues with sales invoicing. 
• Ensure credit notes are approved in line with company policy. 
• Preparation of monthly reporting on sales invoicing statistics for presentation to management, including analysis of credit notes raised and team performance vs KPIs. 
• Identify and implement process improvements to maximise the efficiency of the sales invoicing function. 
• Ensure purchase invoices are processed within agreed guidance. 
• Ensure 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. 
• Preparation of monthly reports including PSA data, control account reconciliations and analysis 

Key Competencies and Experience 

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

Desirable Competencies and Experience 

• AAT Level 4 or equivalent 
• Experience of Agresso/Unit 4 ERP and Microsoft Dynamics 
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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.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

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@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.