Assistant Accountant

ELS Recruitment is excited to be supporting a group of expert businesses in the service-based sector. Working in a busy and fast paced environment you will be supporting and working with a high calibre accounting team.

The main purpose of the Assistant Finance Manager is…

• Provide accurate and timely financial information throughout the group
• Act as a finance partner to the commercial finance team

Role Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, prepare and review the monthly management accounts
• Responsible for the month-end process including preparation, posting and review of journals, completing all balance sheet reconciliations and analysis of monthly movements
• Assisting with preparation of statutory accounts for all Group companies and consolidation in accordance with financial reporting standards
• Working closely with business partners and being a key point of contact to Site & Operations managers during month and year end reporting periods
• Responsible for accurate reporting of accounts payable, accounts receivable, prepayments, accruals, fixed assets and other debtors and creditors
• Complete weekly and periodic management reports including detailed budget to actual variance analysis, Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss
• Support Finance Managers on technical accounting issues including aspects of acquisition accounting.
• Ad-hoc analysis and projects to support the needs of the business

Commercial Reporting:

• Support Finance Managers to review, challenge and then implement changes to the accounting and Management Information (MI) to provide maximum insight into company profitability.
• Demonstrate exceptional financial analysis skills
• Work with internal stakeholders including board members to support them on budget setting and monitoring, delivering an excellent business partnering service
• Produce high quality information, data and KPIs, ensuring that information and data produced by the finance teams is transparent, accurate and appropriate for corporate reporting

You will:

• Be a studying, part qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Have experience of working in a similar role within a medium/ large company
• Either be an experienced Assistant Accountant ready to take the next step or a Management Accountant seeking a move into a larger more complex business