Assistant Accountant

We are thrilled to be working on a role with our well-established client, giving opportunity to become a valued member of the finance team. This dynamic and challenging role involves supporting new business growth, project launches, and ensuring seamless day-to-day operations. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement in a progressive company, where you will be supported and encouraged throughout your career.

Assistant Accountant duties:

• Collaborate with managers to accurately capture and allocate costs, understand key cost drivers, and manage budgets.
• Execute nominal ledger tasks, including processing journals, nominal ledger cross charges, and period-end reconciliations.

• Prepare precise and timely financial reports, interpreting operational data on a weekly and periodic basis.
• Support the delivery of annual budgets and forecasts within specified timelines and standards.
• Cultivate strong relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Report and monitor key performance indicators and non-financial metrics to uphold service delivery.
• Prepare balance sheets, ensuring robust reconciliations to support balances.
• Contribute to site projects from a finance perspective, managing budgetary control, forecasting, and continuous improvement costings.
• Handle payroll reconciliations.
• Perform weekly and monthly invoicing.

The ideal candidate:

• Experience in a similar role producing management accounts.
• Ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Proactive and inquisitive mindset.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining high standards.
• Flexibility to respond positively and accurately to internal and external customer requests.

The company:

• Hybrid working
• Opportunity to study
• 25 day hol + stats + option to purchase more
• Positive and dynamic work culture
• Pension scheme
• Death in service
• Retail discount app
• Personal accident insurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free on-site parking

If you are ready to take on this exciting opportunity and contribute to the success of the team, please get in touch with your CV at

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.