Assistant Accountant

RG Consultancy; Preston; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension scheme

Onsite parking

Study support for AAT/ACCA/CIMA

Flexible start/finish times

Job summary

RG Consultancy is assisting an engineering client in Preston to recruit an Assistant Accountant/Junior Management Accountant for a full-time, permanent position. The role reports to the Financial Director within a busy finance team in an office setting with an early Friday finish.

Duties include purchase ledger, CIS returns, bank reconciliations, month-end tasks, and assisting with management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations. Excellent MS Excel skills preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience in end-to-end purchase ledger.
• CIS experience would be advantageous but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Full end-to-end purchase ledger duties including BACs payments, weekly payment runs and matching.
• Supplier statements processing.
• CIS returns and staff expenses.
• Bank reconciliations.
• Assisting with month-end duties (accruals, prepayments, journals).
• Assisting with monthly management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations.

Skills

MS Excel

CIS experience

Job description

We are working with an excellent engineering company, who are looking to bring on board an Assistant Accountant/Junior Management Accountant to join the finance team on a full time, permanent basis. This role will report into the Financial Director and will work within a busy finance department in Preston.

This is an office based role, with a early Friday finish. You will be working in a open plan office, with multiple departments all together, so has a nice busy atmosphere.

Duties will include:

• Full end to end purchase ledger duties including BACs payments, weekly payment runs and matching.
• Supplier statements
• CIS returns, processing staff expenses
• Bank reconciliations
• Assisting with month end duties such as accruals, prepayments and journals
• Assisting with monthly management accounts
• Assisting with balance sheet reconciliations
• Other adhoc duties as the role grows/develops over time

Skills:

• CIS experience would be an advantage but not essential
• Strong MS Excel skills

Benefits:

• 37.5 hours per week - flexible start and finish times
• 24 days + bank holidays + option to buy more days
• Company pension scheme
• Onsite parking available
• Study support for AAT/ACCA/CIMA