Assistant Accountant
- Recruiter
- Asterley Clarke Limited
- Location
- Egham
- Salary
- £26k - 28k per year + benefits
- Posted
- 16 Sep 2014
- Closes
- 23 Sep 2014
- Ref
- 207616
- Contact
- Phil Clarke
- Job Title
- Accountant
- Category
- Accountancy Practice
- Experience Levels
- Part Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client, an established and profitable business, is looking for an experienced Assistant Accountant / Bookkeeper as a result of a period of consistent growth.
This position reports into the Financial Controller and takes ownership of the accounts and bookkeeping for a small division and provides most of the finance function for that area for which you will be the finance contact for both middle management and a Regional Director.
Areas of responsibility will include the upkeep of all ledgers, bank reconciliations, accruals and pre-payments, month end reconciliations and subsequent input of journals, ensuring the provision of a timely and accurate trial balance alongside some automated financial reports for the month end close.
The work culture here is excellent with a professional approach, a strong team ethic and a flexible management attitude. So whilst the company succeeds in providing an excellent work life balance, it is also important that you are happy to take on ad hoc tasks and turn your hand to whatever is required to help your team-mates when the need arises.
As the main finance function this is a key role across the region and indeed within this friendly and successful business so you need to be a confident communicator and with a desire to contribute and share in the success of an expanding organisation. You will also have sound accounts experience with a proven skills in double entry bookkeeping. Reasonable Excel skills and accounting software experience are also pre-requisites.
Part-qualified or relevant experience.