Assistant Accountant (Cookstown Area)

VanRath; Cookstown; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known company is seeking a Part-Qualified/Assistant Accountant in Cookstown, Northern Ireland. The role offers competitive salary and excellent career progression opportunities within a dynamic finance team. Candidates should have a minimum of 1-2 years' experience and relevant accounting qualifications such as CIMA or ACCA. This position involves preparing management accounts, budgets, and assisting with audit processes.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Excellent career progression

In-house training from a fantastic finance team

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 to 2 years' experience in a similar role.
• Experience in a practice background is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of monthly management accounts and variance analysis.
• Develop management accounting reporting pack for board.
• Prepare yearly budget and manage balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Assist with annual audit process and refresh financial forecast.

Skills

Part-Qualified in CIMA/ACCA or an accounting qualification

Previous experience within a transactional finance function

Payroll experience

Driven and keen to ascertain career progression

Excellent communication skills

Job description

Part- Qualified/ Assistant Accountant

VANRATH is pleased to be recruiting for a Part- Qualified/ Assistant Accountant for a well-known company in Mid-Ulster. Due to organic growth my client is investing heavily in their already established finance function to help meet the needs of a growing business.

The Benefits

My client has a generous remuneration package on offer, to attract the very best talent in a busy market.

• Competitive salary
• Excellent career progression
• In-house training from a fantastic finance team

The Role

This role has come about due to internal growth within the current finance team. This role allows for an interesting day to day working life due to the variety of daily tasks and offers career progression. The Assistant Accountant will be responsible for providing a management accounting service to the business, management accounts preparation, budgeting, forecasting, decision support and ad hoc analysis.

Key Duties:

• Assisting in the preparation of monthly management accounts, including in depth commentary and variance analysis for board reporting
• To further develop the management accounting reporting pack for presentation to the board.
• Development and delivery of Key Performance Indicator report.
• Preparing support schedules and back up to the management accounts.
• To be responsible for the preparation of the yearly budget for the business.
• Assist in the preparation of statutory accounts
• Preparation of balance sheet account reconciliations
• Assist with annual audit process
• Refresh the financial forecast quarterly to highlight expected performance versus budget
• Product cost analysis
• Manage the implementation of system improvements and efficiency initiatives
• Review supplier invoices and manage subcontractor and agency costs
• Ad hoc projects as required

Additional duties:

• Availability for holiday cover
• Submissions of VAT returns for ROI and UK
• Travel to various work sites

The Ideal Candidate

This role is ideally suited to a Part- Qualified accountant ideally from a practice background. It is vital, the successful candidate has a minimum of 1 to 2 years' experience in a similar role. The successful candidate should have the following:

• Part- Qualified in CIMA/ACCA or an accounting qualification
• Previous experience within a transactional finance function
• Payroll experience
• Driven and keen to ascertain career progression
• Excellent communication skills

For further information on this vacancy, or any other Accounting and Finance job in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact Kevin Roberts in the strictest confidence. IND01