Assistant Accountant

Salary: £31,800 per year

Job Title: Assistant Accountant

Reporting To: Management Accountant

Salary: £31,800

Our client is currently looking for an Assistant Accountant to join their team based in Redditch. The role of this position will be to provide accounting services ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with group policies as well as supporting the continuous improvement of processes within the accounts function and development of the role.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare, produce, analyse, and report on accounts up to Trial Balance for relevant group companies, including transaction processing work where required
• Balance sheet reconciliation’s and monthly analysis of allocated accounts
• Administration and analysis of petty cash, cash advances, foreign currency, pre-paid and company credit cards
• Raising of sundry invoices (e.g., staff purchases; fixed asset sales)
• KPI reporting for allotted KPIs
• Prepare VAT, sales listings and intrastat returns for relevant group companies
• Co-ordination and reporting of ESG information across the Group.

• Support the Management Accountant and Group Financial Controller with management reporting, inter-company transactions, reconciliation’s, and year-end accounts
• Prepare reporting of National Statistics requirements
• Provide cover to other parts of the finance
• Undertake ad-hoc projects and financial analysis as required
• Other duties commensurate with the skills and experience of the person in the role

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Committed to passing relevant professional qualifications (e.g. AAT and subsequently CIMA) for which support will be provided
• Graduate calibre
• Attention to detail and logical with problem solving abilities
• IT literate with systems experience and good excel skills
• Flexible, hard-working and honest individual who can work as part of a team