Assistant Accountant

Job Description

Reporting to the Head of Finance, the Assistant Accountant is responsible for the company’s financial reporting and systems, including the day to day running of the Finance function and reporting of the business. You will have the opportunity to own and drive change across the business, whilst also gaining exposure to an exciting, fast paced, commercial environment. In order to be considered, you must have the essential experience as detailed below. Hybrid working available.

Key Responsibilities:

• Fully responsible for producing Daily, Weekly and Monthly Financial reports using Excel and Power BI in a timely and accurate manner.
• Become a Power BI/reporting subject matter expert in order to assist team members with building, maintaining and delivery of financial and non-financial reports.
• Identify and drive process improvements, in order to provide more accurate and timely financial information.
• Responsible for completing month end Sales and Overrider reconciliations between the sales forecasting system and AX (Finance ERP system).
• Finance Super User of the sales forecasting system, which includes ensuring company users have received adequate training and support to use the system correctly, ongoing maintenance of the system and ensuring all data within the system is accurate.
• Administration of Commercial Terms, Overriders, Promotional Support and the Promotional Calendar within the sale forecasting system.
• Assist the Commercial Teams and Sales Order Processing Teams with invoice queries, price discrepancies and other queries that affect invoicing and payments.
• Support the Marketing team with monthly reporting of their costs in order to help provide insight to their spend, cost ownership and accuracy of budget and forecasts vs actuals.
• Provide further support to the Marketing department where required.
• Support the Head of Finance and Commercial Finance Manager with any other ad-hoc duties as required.

Essential Experience / Qualifications and Attributes Required:

• Part qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or qualified by experience.
• Very confident in using Excel including ability to create VLOOKUP’s/Pivot Tables/SUMIFS and working with large datasets.
• Experience of using ERP finance systems or Commercial forecasting tools.
• Power BI skills are desirable but not necessary.
• Able to work without close supervision and take responsibility for their own deliverables, working to deadlines.
• Analytical and logical thorough approach to all tasks.
• Must be able to prove right to work in the UK and preferably be a UK resident.

If you have the relevant experience as detailed, please submit an up to date CV by using the ‘apply’ button.

For an informal chat about this position please call Geraldine Ives on 01752 252533