Assistant Accountant

Nigel Wright Group

Posted 5 days ago, valid for 12 days

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland NE20, England

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

The Assistant Accountant position supports the Management Accountant in a growing organization with a focus on career development and flexible hours.
Key responsibilities include processing transactions, ensuring month/year-end deadlines are met, and assisting with reconciliations and team workflow.
Candidates should have experience in a similar role, strong communication skills, and accounting knowledge, preferably working towards a qualification.
Experience with Xero is beneficial but not mandatory, while strong Excel skills are required.
The salary for this role is competitive, though specific figures are not provided, and relevant experience is necessary.

The CompanyAssistant Accountant - Study Support - Career Development - Flexible HoursWe are delighted to be supporting a growing organisation in their search for an Assistant Accountant. This is a newly created Assistant Accountant role which will support the Management Accountant directly. The roleThe Assistant Accountant duties will include:

Support the Management Accountant to ensure all transactions are processed in a timely manner.
Ensure the transactional finance team meets strict month/year end deadlines.
Work with the transactional team to ensure that all month end reconciliations are completed and available for the Management Accountant to review.
Assist the Management Accountant with the team workflow.
Overseeing direct reports and providing support to the wider team as and when necessary.
Liaise with the Payroll Bureau on fortnightly and monthly pay runs, review draft reports completing spot checks and approve for submission to payment.
Build and develop relationships throughout the business.
Ad hoc duties as requested.

The PersonThe requirements for the Assistant Accountant role are:

Experience in a similar role
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, as well as the ability to nurture and maintain positive working relationships at all levels.
Accounting knowledge, working towards an accounting qualification if not already held.
Experience working with Xero would be helpful, but not essential.
Strong Excel skills

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