Part Time Financial / Assistant Accountant

Trial Balance Consulting Ltd.; Brixham; Hybrid; GBP 20,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

Trial Balance Consulting Ltd. is partnering with a specialist services business in Brixham to recruit an Assistant Accountant for a permanent, part-time role (~25 hours/week).

The role offers potential hybrid working after an initial settling-in period and sits within a small, experienced finance team. The successful candidate will support statutory reporting, management accounts, cash flow and forecasts, and VAT, with exposure to wider FP&A duties and system improvements.

Qualifications

• Two years of experience in a similar role.
• AAT or professional qualification preferred.
• Excellent MS Excel skills and strong IT aptitude.

Responsibilities

• Assist in statutory accounts and FP&A
• Support production of management accounts
• Ensure statutory reporting deadlines are met
• Perform bank reconciliations
• Produce cash flow statements and forecasts
• Maintain fixed asset register
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts
• Lead VAT reporting
• Post accruals and prepayments
• Support wider finance team as required

Skills

MS Excel

IT aptitude

Education

AAT qualification or equivalent

Job description

Trial Balance Consulting are delighted to have exclusively partnered with a new client, an interesting and highly regarded specialist services business based in the beautiful town of Brixham. The company has tasked us with a sourcing an experienced Assistant Accountant, a newly created opportunity, to join them on a permanent, part time contract - approximately 25 hours per week to be arranged to suit the successful candidate. There may be some scope for hybrid working following an initial settling-in period.

Working as part of a small but highly experienced and very friendly finance team, the successful candidate will principally focus on ensuring highly quality financial reporting and the upkeep of financial records, but with a somewhat broader remit than pure statutory processes. This will be a broad and interesting opportunity with a varied range of responsibilities to include:

- Work closely with the Finance Manager (and occasionally the CFO), to support in all aspects of preparing statutory accounts and general FP&A

- Assist the Finance Manager with the production of management accounts

- Ensure that statutory reporting deadlines are met

- Bank reconciliations

- Produce cash flow statements and general forecasts

- Maintenance of the fixed asset register

- Balance sheet reconciliation

- Assume a lead role in VAT reporting

- Posting accruals and prepayments

- Assist the wider finance team as and when required

For this role we seek a motivated and career driven Assistant/Financial Accountant with at least two years of recently gained experience in a similar capacity, or moving from practice to industry. Candidates may be part/fully AAT/professionally qualified or suitably qualified through vocational experience. The company is keen to implement digital system improvements so good IT aptitude and excellent MS Excel skills essential. This is a highly visible role that works with an energetic team and liaises with colleagues throughout the business so excellent communication/interpersonal skills required.

The successful candidate will benefit from a well-supported and developing role with a company that can boast excellent staff retention and superb financial/non-financial benefits (fantastic offices and a great range of social events etc.).