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Trainee Accountant

Stonehouse
Full-time
On-site
Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
£25,000 - £30,000 GBP yearly
Accounting / Finance
Trainee Accountant | Permanent | Stonehouse

Job Summary

Work with the finance team to complete and learn key aspects of the financial processes and analysis as required:

* Assist in the production of the management accountants and provide insight and reporting for managers together with developing key analysis and insights

* Assist the finance payments manager with Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger processes

* Assist as a point of contact for IT services and over time become a key user of applications

Key Relationships

* Finance team / business stakeholders

Main Duties and Key Responsibilities

Assist in the production of the management accounts as directed by the management accountants, this will include:

* Assisting to complete month end close procedures (including accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations)

* Analysis of accounts to understand spend and assist budget holders

* Develop relationships with key business owners to support them with ad hoc analysis and reporting to meet the business needs

* Completion of reporting for external reporting for government and compliance

* Operational support in specific areas as required (e.g. Chep pallet reconciliations, stocktake support, etc)

* Assist in process development and analysis as required

* Support the FP&A manager and Management accountants as required

Assist the finance payments manager with Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger processes:

* Processing and investigating differences on purchase ledger invoices

* Reconciliation of customer and supplier accounts

* Supporting the process to create and distribute customer and supplier price lists

* Support the payment manager with as required

* Provide holiday cover

Assist as a point of contact for IT services and over time become a key user of applications:

* Be a point of contact on site for our external IT providers

Skills and Abilities

* Great communicator, both internal and external

* Attention to detail, accuracy and speed

* Well organized and able to achieve results

* Tenacity

* Self-motivated

* Team player: work department leads and their teams

Knowledge and Experience

* Desire to study for a professional qualification (CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)

* Willing to learn and has a good grasp of excel and ideally used an ERP platform

For further information, please contact Rhian Mountjoy

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