Role Title: Assistant Management Accountant
Location: Glasgow Head Office
Hours of Work: 37 5 hours / Monday - Friday (1 day Hybrid)
Salary: £30,296 45 per annum
Job Purpose:
To support management accountant and Finance Manager in the production of monthly accounts and to reconcile and maintain clean balance sheet reconciliations
Key Accountabilities:
- Work closely with management accountant and senior management accountant to ensure department deadlines and targets are met
- Responsible for preparing and posting month end journals to tight deadlines
- Posting and reconciling accruals & prepayments
- Maintain Fixed asset register & post depreciation
- Month end recoding of P & L transactions
- Checking costs & preparing sections of management accounts
- Reconciling balance sheet accounts
- Reconcile and control WIP Balance sheet accounts
- Ensuring WIP is submitted to operational managers/ customers for approval and billing
- Respond to requests for information and analysis from operations colleagues
- Assist with preparation of audit files and assist external auditors during fieldwork
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Experience of working in a finance department preferred but not essential but should demonstrate a desire to work in a finance department May be working towards a professional qualification (E g ACCA, AAT, CIMA) or be qualified at Degree, HNC or HND level or equivalent
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Good interpersonal skills
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Excellent IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel
Behaviours:
Behaves in a manner consistent with our City values:
We are progressive
- We regularly communicate our targets and progress
- We encourage creativity & innovation
- We welcome challenge & challenge for better
We are tenacious
- We focus on our ambitions
- We lead & empower others
- We are accountable & drive performance
We are City
- We invest in our culture
- We live our values
- We collaborate & work together
We value people
- We encourage & offer support
- We give thanks & praise every day
- We help our people grow
We inspire trust
- We do what we say
- We act with integrity
- We are open & transparent
