Accounts Assistant

  • ALEXANDRA PALACE
  • Oct 07, 2025
Full time Accounting

Job Description

About the Role

Ally Pally is looking to recruit 2 Accounts Assistants to provide support to the finance team, working across purchase and sales ledgers in both the Trust and Trading Subsidary. You will hold an AAT qualification at level 3 or 4 or have equivalent work experience, with proven experience working in a similar accounts generalist role preferably in retail, hospitality or the leisure sector.

About Ally Pally

We are a major event, heritage and cultural destination in North London. We host live music, live sport, theatre productions and Park events all year round. All the money that is generated by events goes back into maintaining and restoring the Park and Palace, to celebrate and share the past, deliver extraordinary ecperiences at present, and regenerate for the future

Key duties

Purchase

  • Match invoices with purchase orders checking for completeness and accuracy
  • Ensure direct debits and regular payment invoices are received, approved and processed
  • Upload payments on bank ready for authorisation
  • Send out remmittance statements

Sales

  • Reconcile and record sales transactions from EPOS system
  • Post receipts to customer account

Bank

  • Record ank transactions in the accounting system
  • weekly bank reconciliations

Payroll

  • Support with the monthly payroll processing schedule
  • Ensure timesheets are received from departments on time and follow up queries
  • Prepare and upload chargeable costs journey into finance system

General

  • Assit with year-end audit
  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records including ledgers and journals
  • Assist in the preparation and monitoring of budgets
  • identify and mitigate financial risks such as fraud or financial discrepancies

This is not an exhaustive list. Please see the JOB PACK attachment for further details.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter outlining how you meet the reauirements of the role with reference to the job descripton and person specification.

The deadline for applications is 9am Wendesday 22 October 2025