Assistant Accountant

Morgan Hunt UK Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm seeks an Assistant Accountant for financial operations in Birmingham. Responsibilities include maintaining financial controls, assisting in audits, and ensuring compliance with policies. This role offers an opportunity to work closely with government and public sector accounting, requiring collaboration with various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Interest in government and public sector accounting is preferred.
• Collaborative skills needed for working with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to accounts payable and receivable functions.
• Prepare monthly accounts reconciliations and statutory returns.
• Maintain the Oracle finance system and assist with audits.

Skills

Financial control

Accounting

Reconciliation

VAT and tax knowledge

Oracle finance system

Job description

The Assistant Accountant role is varied and involves providing essential support in financial operations and assisting in the effective management of financial resources. This role will report into the Financial Accountant and will work with other team members to ensure accuracy, compliance, and transparency in financial activities.

As an Assistant Accountant, you will predominantly support the financial control and accounting functions including purchase ledger; sales ledger; capital and fixed assets; staff expenses; reconciliations; VAT and tax; government data returns; maintenance of the Oracle finance system; internal and external audit; and the production of the Annual Report & Accounts. You will also develop collaborative relationships with key stakeholders e.g. Finance Business Partners, Internal and External Auditors, and HM Treasury.

This opportunity will be particularly interesting to candidates with an interest in government and public sector accounting.

• Provide support to the accounts payable and accounts receivable functions including audit of employee expense claims
• Support completion of month end closedown activities e.g. opening/closing accounting periods, preparing prepayment journals and other ad hoc journals
• Prepare monthly accounts payable and receivable reconciliations and other control account reconciliations, e.g. monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Maintain the asset register and the leases model and prepare monthly asset and lease reconciliations
• Maintain the licence fee income models and calculate and prepare the respective sales invoices
• Prepare the monthly VAT returns and annual Tax returns
• Prepare statutory returns and transparency returns for publication
• Support maintenance of the Oracle finance system
• Support the preparation of the financial statements and associated documentation required for audit
• Provide documentation to internal and external auditors and working with them to resolve queries during the audit
• Support the preparation of the Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) and the Main and Supplementary Estimates
• Support the analysis of current processes to identify and implement ways to improve processes and financial control
• Support the maintenance and compliance of finance policies
• Complete other ad hoc tasks to support the Financial Accountant

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.