Assistant Accountant

My client are currently recruiting for an Assistant Accountant to come in and take responsibility of the transactional finance procedures within their friendly, family orientated finance department. They are ideally seeking an ambitious candidate studying AAT or with a recent degree qualification, although these are not essentials.

Client Details

A market leading construction company. Family run since their inception, and currently experiencing a period of development within their finance department. They require a candidate with the ability to take ownership of some of their transactional responsibilities to operate as an Assistant Accountant.

Description

Responsibilities:

• balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis
• pre-payments and accruals
• Reconciling the Fixed Assets ensuring the depreciation is charged appropriately
• General ledger responsibilities
• P&L
• Cash forecasting
• Month end reporting
• Weekly cash reporting to parent company
• Daily management of cash positions
• Assistance with the preparation of VAT returns.
• Assist with the preparation of credit reviews to establish the credit-worthiness of suppliers and clients
• Assist with Expenses function
• Ad hoc tasks as required by the Finance team

Profile

The successful candidate will:

• Be an effective and confident communicator, able to interact with people in all levels of the business.
• Good general accounting knowledge

Job Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Full study support through ACCA/CIMA.
• Permanent Assistant Accountant role in the building and construction industry based just outside St. Albans.