Assistant Accountant

Assistant Management Accountant (part-qualified)

Circa £35,000 + benefits

6 months fixed term contract

35 hours per week (with flexible and hybrid working)

Wimbledon

The role

You will be supporting the Finance Team for CIPD and a key player tasked with producing accurate financial data to enable effective decision-making across the business. 

What you’ll be doing

• Using accounting system to process and manage financial transactions related to CIPD UK and CIPD Enterprises and potentially other entities within the group. Posting transactions and month end journals in NetSuite including prepayments, accruals and revenue deferrals.
• Day to day accounting activities include managing transactions in the ledger, ensuring coding is accurate and adjusting miscoding before the month end to minimise time it takes to close the month.
• Working with others in the finance team and in teams across the business to ensure month end reporting is accurate, on time and all appropriate journals are supported.
• Completing revenue reconciliations between Netsuite and other source systems to ensure deferred and accrued income is accurate. Working with the systems accountant and financial accountant where necessary to complete this.
• Reconciliation of the Purchase Order System and goods receiving. Working with areas around the business to ensure accurate transaction recording.
•  Production of the management accounts.
• Preparing supporting documentation for the year-end audit and liaising with external auditors.
• Providing support to Finance Business Partners within operational finance and operational queries from wider commercial business.
• Supporting Finance Business Partners in the budgeting and forecasting process.

What you’ll need to be successful

• Accounting experience in a similar role, with a focus on ERPs such as Oracle (NetSuite), SAP, Microsoft  
• Part-qualified accountant preferred (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent)  
• Advanced knowledge of Excel (sumifs, pivot tables, vlookups) and experience of working with accounts systems 
• Demonstrate integrity, a strong work ethic and a sense of urgency in executing and completing tasks  
• Well organised with the ability to work independently and collaboratively with remote teams
• Confident communicator with high level of attention to detail

About us

 We’ve been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. We help organisations thrive by focusing on their people, supporting our economies and societies. We’re the professional body for HR, L&D, OD and all people professionals – experts in people, work and change. With over 160,000 members globally – and a growing community using our research, insights and learning – we give trusted advice and offer independent thought leadership. And we are a leading voice in the call for good work that creates value for everyone.

There has never been a more interesting or important time to join us. We offer an inclusive and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days’ holiday with an option to buy and sell days, £125 personal development allowance, access to an award winning pension scheme and a commitment to wellbeing including a cashback health scheme.

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CIPD: valuing everyone as an individual! The CIPD define diversity as the differences in colour, ethnicity, abilities, age, gender, beliefs, interests, socioeconomic status(class), marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, geographic, academic/professional backgrounds, opinions, backgrounds, thinking, experiences, and many other personal characteristics. There is a growing body of research that shows that diverse workforce can be beneficial for decision making, innovation and problem solving as people bring a diverse range of skills and lived experiences with them. Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are fully utilised and organisational and personal goals are met.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion and equality of outcomes in employment through recognising of how differences of age, disability, gender, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, ethnicity, colour, religion, or belief and other protected (by equalities law) and personal characteristics can advantage or disadvantage a person.

Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible.