Your new company A multinational business based in Bury St Edmunds is seeking an experienced AAT-Qualified or Part-Qualified Assistant Accountant to join them on a 6-month contract supporting the Management Accounting team with transactional finance, collating and analysing financial data. Your new role In this temporary Senior Bookkeeper / AAT Qualified / Assistant Accountant job, you will support the wider finance teams with trial balance across the ledgers, undertake reconciliations of various bank accounts including foreign accounts, collate financial data at month-end to include posting of accruals, prepayments and journal adjustments, where needed. The business is going through a period of growth as well as a new system implementation and requires additional support for a period of 6-months. This is a crucial role in the team where you will have access to the day-to-day transactional finance team and use the data to support the Management Accountants as well as the Financial Controller with typical monthly reporting and month-end duties. The business is fast-paced, and requires accurate monthly reporting, so we expect you to have intermediate to advanced Excel and, at times, use AI to assist in improving and streamline tasks. Ideally, you will hold a formal qualification to demonstrate a level of competency and overall technical expertise in finance. What you'll need to succeed You will be immediately available to give commitment to a 6-month contract and have experience in trial balance, month-end reporting including accruals, prepayments, confident reconciliation skills in reviewing large data sets as well as reconciling across multiple bank accounts. We expect you to hold a formal finance qualification ie: AAT Qualified or Part-Qualified CIMA, ACCA, ACA with strong systems experience as well as a confident analytical approach when investigating and resolving financial issues. You will have excellent communication skills and be able to work on your own initiative in a fast-paced business-to-business commercial organisation. What you'll get in return As explained, this will be a 6-month fixed-term contract paying circa £38,000 - £40,000 depending on your experience plus company benefits. Contact Hays for more details. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. Hays EA is a trading division of Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited and acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk