Your newpany
Hays are working with a growing organisation who are looking for an experienced and proactive Assistant Accountant to support their Finance team in Worcester. Your work will directly support decision-making at the management level and contribute to the financial health of the organisation.
Your new role
1. Assisting the Financial Controller and budget holders to prepare annual budgets and quarterly re-forecasts of cost, recovery and cashflow, providing analysis of data.
2. Assisting with preparation of monthly management accounts.
3. Posting monthly recharges and dealing with business queries.
4. Liaise on a monthly basis with budget holders to discuss variances of actual cost to budget/forecasts costs.
5. Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
6. Monthly tasks including timesheet management, staff allocations, creating job memos, raising capex forms, raising purchase orders and invoice resolution.
7. Ad hoc projects evaluation and incorporation into forecasts of impact of new initiatives, projects and contracts etc.
8. Assist in developing and implementing new processes.
What you'll need to succeed
9. Sound analytical skills.
10. Ability to work to deadlines and take responsibility
11. Ability tomunicate and influence at all levels
12. Organised
13. Good Attention to detail.
14. Team Player – as a small team it will be necessary to cover colleagues’ workload.
15. Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including use and set-up of Pivot tables.
16. Experience of an accounting software package.
17. Prior involvement in the preparation of management accounts.
18. Ability to work to monthly deadlines.
19. Strong written and verbalmunication.