Financial Accountant

Accountability Recruitment Southern Ltd; Waterlooville; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Financial Accountant to join a successful construction company in Waterlooville. The role involves recording financial transactions, preparing budgets, maintaining payroll, and ensuring accuracy in accounting procedures across entities. Candidates should ideally have qualifications in CIMA, ACCA, or ACA and experience with Sage and Quickbooks. This position requires hands-on expertise and strong financial acumen.

Qualifications

• Highly motivated, hands-on Accountant.
• Experience in a construction background is a plus.
• Qualified to CIMA or ACCA / ACA level preferred.

Responsibilities

• Record financial transactions.
• Provide timely and useful financial information.
• Prepare budgets and monitor them.
• Prepare VAT and CIS submissions.
• Maintain staff payroll.
• Prepare cash forecasts using spreadsheets.
• Produce bank reconciliation statements.
• Optimize insurance policies.
• Maintain asset register.
• Ensure efficiency in accounting procedures.
• Oversee junior staff and ensure accuracy.

Skills

Financial transaction recording

Financial information provision

Budget preparation

VAT and CIS submission

Payroll maintenance

Cash forecasting

Bank reconciliation

Insurance policy optimization

Asset register maintenance

Sage

Quickbooks

Excel

Education

CIMA

ACCA

ACA

QBE or Part Qualified

Tools

Sage

Quickbooks

Excel

Job description

We're working on the behalf of a highly successful construction company who are seeking a new Financial Accountant to join their team. Working closely with the Director and the Financial Controller, you will be responsible for a variety of duties for multiple entities, such as:

Key Responsibilities

• Recording financial transaction
• Provision of timely, accurate and useful financial information
• Preparing budgets and monitoring
• Preparation & submission VAT, CIS etc
• Maintaining staff payroll
• Preparing cash forecast and models using spreadsheets
• Produce bank reconciliation statements
• Maintain and optimise insurance policies
• Maintaining asset register
• Ensuring efficiency of accounting policies and procedures to facilitate smooth running of the accounts department
• Overseeing junior members of staff, ensuring accuracy in work and answering queries

You will need to be a highly motivated, hands on Accountant, preferably qualified to CIMA or ACCA / ACA level, but potentially could consider those QBE / Part Qual. Any experience within a construction background would be useful. Experience of Sage and Quickbooks, as well as Excel, would be ideal.