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