Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant

Salary: £40,000 to £45,000

Southwest London

Office based, 8:30am to 5:30pm

Award winning company based in Southwest London have a new and exciting opportunity for a part qualified or qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) Assistant Accountant to join the account team on a permanent basis.

Working in amazing modern offices in Southwest London with lovely social open plan facilities. Minutes’ walk from an amazing high street, close to local tubes, trains and bus routes. The high street features a variety of boutique shops, restaurants, bars and trendy cafes catering to all your lunch and after work drinks requirements. Apply today to join this amazing company!

The company are inclusive, multi-cultural and social. You will enjoy many team building activities including winter ski holidays, summer & Christmas parties, and Friday night drinks! The head of finance is nurturing and supportive giving you the opportunity to develop your finance career. Many of the employees enjoy long careers due the fact that the company really cares for their employees.

This is a fantastic opportunity reporting to the head of finance you will have key commercial responsibilities within the business including assisting with preparation of budgets, forecasting and financial analysis.

Exposure to project accounting, experience of revenue recognition or work in progress (WIP) reporting would be beneficial for this role. Ideally you will live within 45 minutes commute of Southwest London.

This is exciting opportunity an immediate start (however they can accommodate a month’s notice period) role. The interview process is a two-stage process, initially a Teams meeting followed by a face to face interview in the office.

Responsibilities of the Assistant Accountant:

• Assist with preparing accurate monthly management accounts for the Senior Leadership Team
• Completion of key monthly balance sheet reconciliations across all entities.
• Assist with preparing monthly journals for WIP, accruals, prepayments, deferred income.
• Assist with the management of the Fixed Asset Register additions, Disposal and monthly depreciations.
• Preparing VAT quarterly returns, and Irish bimonthly returns for review and submission.
• Assist in the annual forecast and budget setting process.
• Assisting with the external audit process, working with Financial Controller to provide our auditors with the information required.
• Monthly Overhead, IT, Marketing and other various actual to budget variance analysis.
• Processing of all overhead invoices ensuring matched to Purchase Orders and according to budget, ensure all are approved in a timely manner for payment.
• Assist with credit control and weekly sales ledger duties.
• Month end and year end reporting.
• Assist and support all imports and exports from CRM system to Finance System, being part of month end reconciliation.

Skills and experience of the Assistant Accountant:

• Part or fully qualified ACCA / CIMA /ACA.
• Previous experience working with Sage 200.
• Project accounting experience would be advantageous.
• Experience of Revenue Recognition, and good to have Work in Progress reporting.
• Experience of assisting in the production of Management Accounts.
• Microsoft Excel skills - Pivot table, Vlookups and Formulars.
• Confident verbal and written communication skills.
• Good team working skills and a positive, pro-active attitude.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload with established timescale.

Benefits Package:

• Annual Bonus - Up to 5% based on the company achieving its financial targets.
• Holiday - 23 days + 3 at Christmas (increasing with length of service).
• Pension - starting at 5% employee, 3% employer, increasing with length of service.
• PMI - option to opt in to company funded Private Medical Insurance (P11D benefit).
• BUPA EAP and Cash Plan.

This job may also be known as an assistant management accountant or part qualified accountant.