Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant

£18K – £24K + Pension + Bonus + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday

Southampton, Head Office.

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Role Purpose:

Working within the Finance team this role focuses on providing support to the business with accurate and timely management information, enabling robust cost control and provide the business with information and analysis to aid sound decision-making. Responsible for preparing reporting, undertaking the month end process and completing the budgets and forecasts across a variety of cost lines and functions.

Role Objectives:

• Working closely with the Accounting team to provide MI to support cost control and answer any related financial queries from colleagues. This role provides a great opportunity to develop a career within a dynamic and exciting business.

• Preparation of month end working papers for lines in both the profit and loss account and balance sheet.

• Preparation and posting of monthly end accounting journals.

• Cost variance analysis understanding key variance to budgets and prior year.

• Issue monthly costs reports to budget holders.

• Complete balance sheet reconciliations, within agreed timescales, providing robust working papers to support the balances.

• Take ownership for resolving accounting queries on cost lines with any complex queries escalated as appropriate.

• Create ad hoc reports in Excel as required.

• Undertake ad hoc project work as necessary.

Knowledge and Experience Required:

Essential skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Good knowledge of Excel (Intermediate level)

• Highly accurate and numerate

• Team player

• Inquisitive and a willingness to learn

• Ability to work to tight deadlines

• Self-motivated, committed, resilient and flexible

• Experience of SAP Finance would be an advantage but not a pre-requisite

Minimum level of education or qualifications:

• A-Level or equivalent

• AAT qualified or similar