Hours of Work: 37.5 hours / Monday - Friday (1 day Hybrid)
Salary: £30,296.45 per annum
Job Purpose:
To support management accountant and Finance Manager in the production of monthly accounts and to reconcile and maintain clean balance sheet reconciliations.
Key Accountabilities:
* Work closely with management accountant and senior management accountant to ensure department deadlines and targets are met.
* Responsible for preparing and posting month end journals to tight deadlines
* Posting and reconciling accruals & prepayments
* Maintain Fixed asset register & post depreciation
* Month end recoding of P & L transactions
* Checking costs & preparing sections of management accounts
* Reconciling balance sheet accounts
* Reconcile and control WIP Balance sheet accounts
* Ensuring WIP is submitted to operational managers/ customers for approval and billing
* Respond to requests for information and analysis from operations colleagues
* Assist with preparation of audit files and assist external auditors during fieldwork
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
* Experience of working in a finance department preferred but not essential but should demonstrate a desire to work in a finance department. May be working towards a professional qualification (E.g ACCA, AAT, CIMA) or be qualified at Degree, HNC or HND level or equivalent.
* Ability to work to deadlines
* Good interpersonal skills
* High level of accuracy and attention to detail
* Excellent IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel