Overview
Reporting to: Management Accountant
Location: Leicester
Our client is a highly successful privately owned business, enjoying a period of sustained expansion and is looking to recruit an Assistant Accountant.
Responsibilities
* Assist the Management Accountant to prepare financial information to allow the business to make well-informed decisions.
* Work closely with the Management Accountant to ensure the timely and accurate production of the monthly/quarterly management accounts as well as assisting with Year End financial accounts.
* Oversee expenses and ensure compliance with policy. Analyse spend and highlight any areas for improvement.
* Credit card reconciliations.
* Monitor key expenditure areas.
* Reconcile nominal control accounts monthly, for the Management Accountant to review.
* Assist with Year End reconciliations.
* Produce P11D calculations and summaries.
* Prepare quarterly VAT returns.
* Provide ad hoc cover for Payroll processes.
Knowledge / Skills / Qualifications
* Excellent communication skills.
* Demonstrate strong organisational and efficiency skills.
* Good working knowledge of computer software packages (e.g. Word, Excel).
* Ambitious, with aspirations to progress and develop skills to manage a team in the future.
* Minimum AAT qualified, but ACCA or CIMA part-qualified is desirable.
* Team oriented.
* Professional and able to remain calm under pressure.
* Highly organised.
* Accurate and numerate.
* Proactive, demonstrating initiative and problem-solving skills.
Salary
Salary: GBP 27,000 to GBP 35,000
Family friendly hours.
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