Assistant Accountant

Job description

We are looking for a motivated Assistant Accountant to join our team. The Assistant Accountant will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the accounting department.

• Process management of Accounts Receivable and Payable Ledgers.

To include all reporting and transactional processing duties such as;

• Posting, raising, and matching customer and supplier invoices & payments (including customer portals and intercompany transactions).

• Reconciliation of customer and supplier statements including raising proforma and scrap invoices.

• Reconciliation and agreement of intercompany balances

• Reporting weekly and monthly aged analysis Debtors and Creditors to the Site FD & GM and Group FD & CFO

• Query resolution – Investigate & resolve queries in a timely manner with Internal & External Stakeholders.

• Quarterly Cut-off testing

• Cash Management.

Reconciliation of bank accounts and cash books including assisting with monthly & quarterly cash forecasting.

• Assisting with the preparation of the weekly and monthly management accounts.

To include but not limited to;

• Weekly P&L reporting

• Nominal ledger transactions, assisting, preparing and posting of journals

• Balance sheet reconciliations

• Assisting with the preparation of the weekly and monthly management accounts.

To include but not limited to;

• Weekly P&L reporting

• Nominal ledger transactions, assisting, preparing and posting of journals

• Balance sheet reconciliations

• Ad-Hoc

• Assist with budgeting & forecasting

• Training on all aspects of the finance department, for holiday/sickness cover.

• Audit queries

• Spend Analysis

• Ad-hoc requests, as and when they arise

Essential Experience/ Qualifications

• Management of financial ledgers and monthly management reporting

• Experience of working within a finance function

Desirable Experience/Qualifications

• AAT / Part qualified

• Experience of working within a finance function in a manufacturing environment