Assistant Accountant - STORMX RECRUITMENT LIMITED : Job Details

Assistant Accountant -Temporary (ongoing basis and potentially longer term)

Our client is growing, well established company who are looking for an Assistant Accountant to join their friendly, but busy office near Royston.

The role is 5 days a week in the office with the hours 9-5pm.

This role would suit someone who is looking to progress and assist with management accounting duties, whilst also being happy to undertake day to day transactional work.

The ideal candidate will have all round accounts experience and be looking to take a step up and work alongside a Financial Controller and a small team.

The role is initially temporary ongoing and has the potential in the future to move onto a longer term basis.

The key day to duties will be as follows:

• Preparation and submission of VAT Return and EC Sales List
• Assist in the preparation of monthly management accounts.
• Accruals & Prepayments
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• WIP Analysis
• Stock reporting and analysis
• Gross Profit Analysis at both project and department level
• Supporting Administration Team
• Processing expenses & credit card statements
• Maintain, implement, and improve internal controls and procedures.
• Supporting the Management Accountant and Finance Director
• Support Parent Company finance queries and the Group Finance Director
• All aspects of the purchase ledger function: matching, batching & coding invoices.
• Preparing and processing payments via BACS
• Raising sales invoices
• Allocating payments
• Bank reconciliations
• Supplier reconciliations
• Credit control - via phone, email and letter

Skills

• Good spoken and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Commercial awareness
• Strong knowledge of Excel (pivot tables, v-look ups) and Word
• Confident, approachable and team orientated
• Show initiative and prepared to change working practice

Due to the anticipated high volume of applications we may receive for this advertisement, it is with regret that we may only be able to contact those applicants successful in being shortlisted. However, your application for this or any further roles, may mean that we are able to contact you when additional vacancies become available. Should you not want this to be the case, please feel free to contact us directly to ensure we are aware of your wishes.

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