Assistant Accountant – Accounts - Full Time

Assistant Accountant – Accounts - Full Time

04 Dec

Location : Nottingham

Company: JK Foods

Hours: 40 hours per week (exc breaks),

Shift Pattern: Monday – Friday 8.30am – 5pm

Salary: Competitive Dependant on skills and experience

Location: Nottingham (Office Based)

The Opportunity:

We have a fantastic new opportunity for an Assistant Accountant to join our Finance team at our Nottingham office.

This is an exciting new role within the finance department suitable for an individual looking to grow within the business.

Providing accounting support for the Accounts Team. Assisting in the daily, weekly and monthly financial postings for management reporting. This will entail understanding and using our accounts package, and having an understanding of profit & loss accounts and balance sheet reporting.

Key Result Areas, Tasks and Main Duties:

• Maintain all bank & accounts transactions & reconciliation
• Ensuring payments, amounts and records are correct
• Maintain the Cash books
• Maintaining of Daily Cashflow & Cashflow forecast
• Raise any ad-hoc Sales ledger invoices (Rental, Advertising etc)
• Expense analysis
• Assist in the production of Management Accounts
• Weekly Debtors & Creditors Analysis
• Liaising with third party providers, clients and suppliers
• Ability to work as part of a team and take direction accurately
• Any other duties as required by Management Accountants or the Finance Director

The Candidate - Skills & Experience required:

• Experience as an Assistant Accountant essential
• Effective communicator at all levels, able to deal with non-finance staff.
• Advance working knowledge of MS Excel is essential.
• Proactive and practical attitude to continuous improvement of function and systems.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail and ability to multi-task and ability to workwell under pressure.
• Proven aptitude for working with numbers and attention to detail
• Must be self-motivated, organised, hardworking and able to work autonomously
• Good knowledge and experience with accounts package (essential) such as Orderwise (desired)

A range of benefits are available to the successful candidate, including:

• 30 days annual leave (Including bank holidays), Pro rata for part time employees
• Auto enrolment pension.
• Free onsite parking

If you have the skills and abilities to succeed in this role then we would love to hear from you. Please apply now with a cover letter with your current salary and a copy of your CV

Please note, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to provide feedback at this stage, therefore if you do not hear from us within four weeks, your application has not been successful.

The Company:

JK Foods is one of the UK’s largest importers and distributors of foods from Asia and the Far East, selling and delivering across a wide range of markets including Chinese restaurants and Takeaways, wholesalers and major supermarkets. Each product (own label and branded) is carefully sourced from the country of origin capturing its unique richness and character and impeccable quality control ensures their products are leading the field across all categories. Our own brand, Tiger Tiger was launched to meet the growing demand for authentic premium Asian food. Tiger Tiger has a range of products allowing consumers to experience restaurant quality food in their own homes in a convenient and delicious manner. Tiger Tiger is widely sold in the UK and is also exported to the USA, Middle East and Europe.

JK foods is a growing business and a dynamic place to work. Our success is reliant on our staff feeling engaged, motivated and valued and we are continually investing and developing the business to make it a better place to work and provide customer satisfaction.