Assistant Financial Accountant – Fixed Term Contract

Hire Ground Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading luxury retailer is seeking a part-qualified Assistant Financial Accountant to join their finance team on a 4-month contract with the potential to become permanent. Responsibilities include handling finance queries, maintaining financial records, supporting month-end close, and assisting with management accounts. Ideal candidates will be part-qualified and actively studying toward CIMA. This position offers the chance to work in a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Part-qualified and actively studying toward CIMA.
• Experience with month-end close and financial reporting.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy in finance tasks.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for day-to-day finance queries.
• Post journals and maintain accurate financial records.
• Support month-end close and assist with management accounts.

Skills

Financial record maintenance

Payroll processing

Accounting software proficiency

Variance analysis

VAT return processing

Education

Part-qualified CIMA

Tools

PowerBI

Accounting software

Job description

Luxury Retailer | 4-Month Contract (Potential to Go Permanent) | Full-Time | 4 Days in Office

A leading luxury retailer is looking for an immediately available, part-qualified Assistant Financial Accountant to join its finance team on an initial 4-month contract, with strong potential to become permanent. This is a great opportunity to gain broad exposure, take on real responsibility, and make an impact within a small, supportive team.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for day-to-day finance queries.
• Post journals, maintain accurate financial records, and support month-end close.
• Draft payroll amendments and support Auto-Enrolment compliance (processing outsourced).
• Manage the Purchase Order process, Fixed Asset Register, and Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Assist with management accounts, internal reporting, variance analysis, VAT return drafts, budgets, and forecasts.
• Support e-commerce / POS data integrity and help build PowerBI dashboards.
• Process AP invoices, prepare payments, and reconcile supplier statements.
• Generate customer invoices, manage AR collections, resolve discrepancies, and prepare ageing reports.
• Assist with onboarding / offboarding payroll tasks, holiday accruals, P11Ds, and PSA.

What We’re Looking For

Part-qualified and actively studying toward CIMA (or ...