ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT - FINANCIAL REPORTING & CONTROL

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Accountant role on a full-time permanent basis.
Reporting to the Financial Accountant, you will be working in a small team of 3 within the Financial Control team.

Your role will be supporting the Financial Accountant with the following key responsibilities:

• Assisting in ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of all financial records.
• Completion and review of monthly balance sheet reconciliations, reconciling accounts and investigating differences.
• Completion of compliance checks to ensure key financial controls are being adhered to.
• Leading on controls around supplier management, validating changes to masterfile records.
• Assisting with effective management of company credit cards.
• Completion of monthly and year end reporting activities.
• Processing requests for amendments to the chart of accounts within Agresso.
• Assisting with the preparation and delivery of statutory and regulatory returns, internal and external audits.

Your role will be supporting the Financial Accountant with the following key responsibilities:

• Assisting in ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of all financial records.
• Completion and review of monthly balance sheet reconciliations, reconciling accounts and investigating differences.
• Completion of compliance checks to ensure key financial controls are being adhered to.
• Leading on controls around supplier management, validating changes to masterfile records.
• Assisting with effective management of company credit cards.
• Completion of monthly and year end reporting activities.
• Processing requests for amendments to the chart of accounts within Agresso.
• Assisting with the preparation and delivery of statutory and regulatory returns, internal and external audits

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be actively studying towards an accountancy qualification –CIMA/ACCA or minimum AAT Level 3 (Essential).
• Have a good understanding of balance sheet reporting, financial controls, financial systems, processes and procedures (Essential).
• Have some experience of performing balance sheet reconciliations and assisting with audits (Desirable).
• Be an excellent communicator with excellent IT skills, knowledge of Excel and a high degree of numeracy, accuracy and attention to detail (Essential).
• Have some experience of using AI tools, Power BI or similar for financial reporting and analysis (Desirable).
• Be able to prioritise tasks and manage conflicting demands (Essential).
• Have a strong customer focus with a high service standard (Essential)