Assistant Accountant
Based: Hyde, Manchester
Package: up to £35k + study (if required), pension, benefits & opportunity to progress
Our client is a well-established, expanding business who have doubled turnover in the last 3 years. With continued growth plans over the next 2-5 years, this is a fantastic opportunity to work in a small finance team gaining lots of exposure for your career. We are looking for an AAT L4 or ACCA/CIMA studying candidate with strong accounts experience.
Role:
- Assisting with the production of management accounts alongside the Financial Controller
- Bank postings & daily bank reconciliations
- Monthly analysis across sales/marketing/commercial where required
- Balance sheet reconciliations, journal postings, accruals and prepayments
- Quarterly VAT returns, liaising with other areas of the business
- Working with non-finance stakeholders to assist with analysis and decision making
- Utilising PowerBI and SQL to pull data queries for departments
- Working closely with purchase & sales ledger to ensure timely processing
- Assisting Financial Controller & CFO with ad-hoc finance tasks
Experience:
- AAT L4 or CIMA/ACCA studier - essential
- Experience preparing management accounts - essential
- PowerBI (or similar) and SQL experience - essential
- Pro-active and agile approach, always looking to improve/change where possible
- Experience in a stock based business highly desirable but not essential
If you are keen to work in a role offering excellent exposure under a great mentor please send your CV now