Assistant Accountant

Salary: £30,000 – £31,200 per year

Wilmington PLC are looking for a Assistant Management Accountant
Assistant Management Accountant
Location: Basildon – London – Remote Working
Salary: £30,000 – £31,200DOE
Term: Full Time, Permanent
Why do we want you?
are an enthusiastic AAT finalist/qualified or CIMA/ACCA studier, who has experience working in an Assistant Management Accountant role.
You will have had experience/exposure to Financial Analysis / Finance Reconciliations, Recharge and Fixed Assets / Receivables & Cashbook Processes & Practises / SLAs and KPIs
If you’re not AAT finalist/qualified or CIMA/ACCA studier, but you do have experience in all of the responsibilities noted, we would still love to hear from you!
A bit about us.
Wilmington plc is a company with a difference. Over the years we’ve grown by acquisition and as such we have many unique businesses in our portfolio.
Here at Wilmington plc we provide information and training to professional business markets via a portfolio of well known professional service brands. Put simply, we enable professionals and their organisations to enhance performance by providing high quality, relevant and reliable information, education and knowledge.
Main Purpose of Role
As the Assistant Management Account, the main purpose of your role is to ensure the prompt recharge of group costs and integrity of the Shared Services balance sheet, including management of the group fixed assets and control accounts.
Responsibilities include:
– Manage group recharges to ensure the accurate disbursement of costs and integrity of the control account balances.
– Proactively work with the Finance Manager to continuously improve and streamline processes and implement policies for your area of responsibility.
– Ensure outputs consistently meet defined requirements and KPI targets adhering to the month-end timetable is adhered to.
– Ensure that balance sheet accounts are fully reconciled and any remaining balances are explained.
– Liaise with businesses to ensure queries and data requests are completed within specified deadlines and in full
– Continually review and assess processes to ensure best working practices are adhered to and make proposals to the Finance Manager for changes and improvements.
– Support the Share Services Financial Controller with cost analysis and reporting as needed.
– Facilitate the upload of the Shared Services annual budgets to the finance systems.
– Support the Finance Manager in the delivery of accurate and robust reporting to enable the business to make informed decisions.
– Ad Hoc duties as directed.
Skills and Experience Required
– Experience working in an Assistant Management Accountant role or similar
– AAT finalist/qualified or CIMA/ACCA studier – desirable
Technical skills/experience:
– Financial Analysis
– Finance Reconciliations
– Excel (Intermediate/advanced)
– Finance Systems (preferably SUN)
– Financial Controls
– Receivables and Cash Book Processes and Practices
– Financial SLAs and KPIs
– Service Management
Further Skills/experience:
– Process Mapping and Process Improvement
– Stakeholder Management
As a portfolio Company, we are all different at Wilmington. We understand the power of bringing difference together and we celebrate the innovation and creativity it brings through diverse experience, knowledge, and perspectives.