Hybrid Assistant Accountant: Management Accounts & Growth

Confidential; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Company pension

Training and development

Long-term career development

Job summary

Confidential, a well‑established engineering business in Cardiff, is seeking an Assistant Accountant. You will work with the Finance Manager and team to produce financial information, maintain controls and support day‑to‑day accounting activities.

The role offers exposure to management accounts, reconciliations, reporting and operational finance, with opportunities to progress in your finance career within a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in assistant accountant roles or finance officer positions.
• Strong knowledge of reconciliations, journals and month‑end processes.
• Good working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Assist with monthly management accounts preparation.
• Complete balance sheet and control account reconciliations.
• Prepare journals, accruals and prepayments and support month‑end processes.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting.
• Monitor project and operational costs and assist with cashflow analysis.
• Support audit preparation and respond to finance queries.

Skills

Reconciliations

Journals

Month-end

Excel

Attention to detail

Stakeholder communication

Education

AAT or ACCA/CIMA studying

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Confidential, a well‑established engineering business in Cardiff, is seeking an Assistant Accountant. You will work with the Finance Manager and team to produce financial information, maintain controls and support day‑to‑day accounting activities.

The role offers exposure to management accounts, reconciliations, reporting and operational finance, with opportunities to progress in your finance career within a collaborative environment.