Accounts Assistant – 3 Month FTC

Salary: £28,800 per year

Baseline Recruit is working with a major business in Walsall in assisting in the recruitment for an Accounts Assistant on an initial 3 month FTC and working from home 4 days a week.

This position is a fast paced role and requires someone to have excellent Excel skills including the use of Pivot Tables and V Look Ups. You will be handing complex bank reconciliations and be comfortable working at pace. 

Reporting to the Financial Accounts Manager, this role involves:

• To ensure complete, accurate and timely production of management information including monthly management accounts pack and supporting the annual statutory accounts
• To ensure that payments are made and cash collected on a timely basis
• To ensure that internal and external reporting deadlines are met
• To ensure that variances to budget are understood and explained
• To ensure that balance sheet control accounts are fully reconciled and that risks and opportunities are quantified and reported on a monthly basis

Particular areas of focus for this role include:

• Updating the daily company cashflow
• Processing online bank payments and transfers
• Recording sterling and currency bank account transactions in the finance system
• Sales ledger, including invoicing, cash collection/credit control, and production of weekly aged debtor reports
• Monitoring store safe balances and performing month end reconciliation
• Reporting and investigation of store cash shortages
• Reconciliation of bank accounts, with reconciling entries followed up, at the most appropriate frequency for each account (daily, weekly or monthly dependent on volume of transactions)
• Bank interest and fee accruals
• Support for the Financial Operations Assistant with Fixed Asset processing
• Support for strategic initiatives
• Calculation of stocktake results
• Month end accruals and prepayments
• Analysis of variances
• To provide absence cover for other members of the Financial Accounts team

In order to be considered for this role, you will have:

Minimum AAT part-qualified Preferably started CIMA/ACCA

Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel

Experience of Aptos and Cognos Analyst advantageous

Previous financial accounting background

Proven track record of attention to detail and ability to work to strict deadlines and prioritise tasks accordingly

Ability to analyse and challenge information provided

Ability to fully understand the present and future needs of the business and to adapt current processes to accommodate future growth

Ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels

Highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic and desire to achieve excellence

Confident in discussing financial information with non-finance colleagues and external contacts and in challenging assumptions made

Flexibility to adapt to changing business needs

Enthusiastic team player with a strong drive to achieve given objectives

In return, you will receive:

Working from home 4 days a week

Salary of up to £28,800- pro-rata

Eligible for company benefits incl: Pension, enhanced holidays etc.