Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant is required for Southampton-based organisation, seeking support during restructuring.

Your new company
You will be working for a market-leading professional services business who require an Assistant Accountant on a 6-month FTC basis, to assist during the restructuring period.
Your new role

• Responsible for designated balance sheet reconciliation
  
• Identification and resolution of outstanding legacy balances across debtors, creditors and bank ledgers
  
• Preparing and posting journals to reflect the correct account balances
  
• Proactively working with Financial Operations and Group Financial Control to resolve issues, aged invoices and variances
  
• Work with business stakeholders and finance on systems and process improvement initiatives
  
• Identify and document best practice to avoid a reoccurrence of issues
  
• Provide regular reporting updates, demonstrating progress and highlighting obstacles and next steps
  

What you'll need to succeed

• Part Qualified Accountant or QBE.
  
• Strong analytical skills coupled with a good business understanding leading to key business insight.
  
• Team player and creative problem solver with a can-do attitude.
  
• Strong people skills, confident and comfortable at engaging collaboratively in an international environment
  
• Solid appreciation of the core best practice financial accounting standards, policies, processes and systems
  
• Excellent Microsoft skills, coupled with working knowledge and practical application of packages such as Power BI or similar
  

What you'll get in return

• A competitive salary of circa £40k per annum, alongside other benefits - please reach out for more information.
  

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Jack Bailey, the specialist consultant managing this vacancy, on 02382 020 104.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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Location: Southampton, GB

Posted Date: 11/28/2024