Assistant Accountant

Salary: £36,000 – £38,400 per year

The role

The overall objective of the role is to assist in the effective and efficient running of the VolkerWessels Shared Services finance team, with a principal focus on the maintenance and posting to the financial ledgers, and balance sheet reconciliations.

This role may also be required to assist in the company’s implementation of a new ERP, system.

Key accountabilities

Assisting in the management of all ledgers and balance sheet for shared services departments
Responsibility of ensuring the information for all recurring monthly recharges is received, accurate and correctly posted to the ledgers in a timely manner
Raising sales ledger invoices to internally recharge companies outside the VAT group
Posting of other journal vouchers into the system
Posting of purchasing card (PCard) transactions into the system
Period end closing of the finance system
Responsibility for daily check for interface issues and resolution of errors
Bank reconciliations
Balance sheet reconciliations
Updating and communicating exchange ratesSkills & experience

Trainee accountant / Part qualified accountant / Qualified by experience

Knowledge of double entry accounting a prerequisite

Confident at using accounting systems

Other

A competitive salary plus excellent benefits package including healthcare, pension etc.
Family friendly policies in place and some scope for flexible working by negotiation.

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