Assistant Accountant -12 Month FTC

VanRath; Belfast; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an Assistant Accountant for a successful manufacturing company in Belfast. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience within a dynamic finance team. Responsibilities include producing monthly accounts and KPIs, performing financial analyses, and overseeing payroll and credit control processes. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills and experience in financial reporting. Competitive salary and flexible working hours are part of the benefits package.

Benefits

Benefits package

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

Company pension

Excellent training

Qualifications

• Proven experience supporting monthly management and statutory accounts preparation.
• Strong analytical skills with a background in balance sheet reconciliations and KPI reporting.
• Familiarity with payroll processing, credit control, and financial compliance tasks.

Responsibilities

• Assist in producing monthly management accounts, KPIs, and weekly reports.
• Perform analytical reviews of P&L and reconcile balance sheets.
• Process weekly wages and manage VAT/statutory submissions.

Skills

Analytical skills

Experience with balance sheet reconciliations

Payroll processing knowledge

Credit control experience

Collaboration with teams

Job description

VANRATH are proud to be working with a successful manufacturing company in the Belfast area to recruit an Assistant Accountant. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands‑on experience across a dynamic finance team.

What's in it for you?

• Benefits package

• Competitive salary

• Flexible working hours

• Company pension

• Excellent training

What you'll do

• Assist in producing monthly management accounts, KPIs, and weekly reports for internal stakeholders.

• Perform analytical reviews of P&L, reconcile balance sheets, and manage VAT/statutory submissions.

• Process weekly wages and oversee sales ledger, invoicing, and credit control operations.

• Support costing and margin analysis, including data maintenance in Siteline/Factorytrack.

• Drive financial process improvements, internal audits, and cost‑efficiency initiatives across departments

About you

• Proven experience supporting monthly management and statutory accounts preparation.

• Strong analytical skills with a background in balance sheet reconciliations and KPI reporting.

• Familiarity with payroll processing, credit control, and financial compliance tasks.

• Experience collaborating with operational teams such as Supply Chain or Production.

• Hands‑on involvement in product costing, system maintenance, and internal financial audits.

For further information on this vacancy, or any other Accountancy & Finance job in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact Kevin Roberts in the strictest confidence.