Assistant Accountant

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; High Wycombe; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A higher education institution is seeking an Assistant Accountant to support the Financial Accountant. Responsibilities include preparing monthly accruals and prepayments, maintaining the fixed asset register, and assisting with year-end accounts preparation. Ideal candidates will have experience in financial processes and strong Excel skills. This role offers a potential permanent opportunity and hybrid working conditions.

Qualifications

• Experience in monthly accruals and prepayments processes.
• Good understanding of accounting principles.
• Confident with Excel and finance systems.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and process monthly accruals and prepayments.
• Maintain and reconcile the fixed asset register.
• Support in the preparation of year-end accounts.
• Handle the audit schedules in conjunction with Financial Accountant.

Skills

Experience with accruals and prepayments

Understanding of accounting fundamentals

Confident Excel skills

Experience with finance systems

Job description

Our client a higher education organisation is seeking an Assistant Accountant to support the Financial Accountant who is immediately available, and who has experience of performing the accruals and prepayments processes in full on a monthly basis and has a good understanding of the accounting fundamentals accompanied by confident excel and finance system skills.




The role involves:

· Prepare and process monthly accruals and prepayments.

· Maintenance and reconciliation of the fixed asset register.

· Process the depreciation of fixed assets.

· Support in the preparation of the year end accounts

· Support and cover the Financial Accountant, housekeeping of AP and AR ledgers

· Ensure AR and AP ledgers reconcile to control accounts at month end - raising of purchase orders and sales invoices

· Regular review of open purchase orders

· Completion of returns for ONS (Office for National Statistics)

· Completion of requests for FOI (Freedom of Information)

· Assist in preparation of monthly balance sheet account reconciliations.

· Ensure University policies are implemented to provide an improved and cost-effective service.

· Assist in coordination of all the audit schedules in conjunction with the Financial Accountant and FC

· Contribute to new ways of working between IT and Finance directorates




Key Duties include:

· Preparation of all monthly accruals and prepayments. Posting necessary journals and liaising with the Finance Business Partners on requirements.

· Raising of occasional purchase orders and Sales invoices.

· Carry out regular data input and processing to the asset register, ensuring that new assets, capital program items, WIP, impairments, disposals and category maintenance are all up-to-date and accurate. Reconcile the Asset Register to the General Ledger figures each month.

· Run the monthly depreciation for all assets for all companies. Reconcile the figures in terms of the depreciation itself and the subsequent asset reporting.

· Support the Financial Accountant in year-end

· Within the Financial Control team, provide cover when necessary for the Financial Accountant

· Prepare monthly reconciliations for multiple balance sheet accounts.

· Keep up-to-date with current accounting regulations, carry out research where necessary on the implication of new legislation. Be the go to technical person.

· Assist in the coordination of the audit & other ad hoc tasks




Potential permanent opportunity for the right candidate, and hybrid working

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