The Assistant Accountant will support the Chief Accountant and Finance Manager in all aspects of company finance.
Management Accounting
- Ensure timely and accurate recording of the nominal ledger transactions
- Perform various tasks to prepare accurate management accounts for the different legal entities within the business (UK and Overseas) to include but not limited to:
- Sales reporting
- Deferred income
- GRNI / GNIR Adjustments
- Cost of sales / gross profit analysis
- Stock management
- Accruals & prepayments
- Warranty & general provisions
- Intercompany recording and reporting
- Operating expenses
- Group consolidation
- Liaise with Internal Departments as appropriate
Current Financial Year Budgets and Forecasts
- Prepare the operational expenditure budgets vs. Actuals reports each month
- Hold monthly budget review meetings with budget holders to ensure that expenditure is kept within budget throughout the financial year (UK and Overseas)
Future Financial Year Budgets and Forecasts
- Prepare draft future financial year budgets
- Work with Budget Holders to develop future financial year budgets for approval from the Management Team and Board of Directors (UK and Overseas)
Operational Financial Support
Work with Team Leaders and Budget Holders to provide financial support as appropriate, to include but not limited to:
- Labour & overhead allocation to capture production costs and effective analysis of production variances
- Intercompany transfer of products and transfer pricing compliance
- Cost of sales / gross profit analysis
- Costings, BOM's & profit variances
- KPI Reporting
- Stock quarantine and write off
- New product developments for financial viability
Statutory Audit
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Involvement in the Statutory Audits (UK and Overseas)
Support and Cover for Accounts Assistant
Provide support and cover in the following areas:
- Accounts Inbox and Administrations
- Cashbook Processing
- Sales Ledger and Credit Control
- Purchase Ledger Processing
- Payment Runs and Creditor Reviews
- Deal with company insurance policies
- Involvement in the Statutory Audits (UK and Overseas)
Other
- Ensure processes and tasks are compliant to current legislation and are carried out in accordance with company policies within required time frames
- Ensure that there are work instructions for all finance department tasks
- Ensure that all documents are filed appropriately within the company network, protected by file access permissions
- Undertake training as required
- Other duties as assigned
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At least 5 years’ experience working at an Assistant Accountant level
- Excellent finance systems skills preferable Sage 50 & Dynamics Business Central
- Excellent Microsoft skills e.g. Teams. Excel, Outlook, Word & PowerPoint
- Good communication skills
- Good teamwork skills
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Discretionary annual profit share bonus
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- 5% employee and 5% employer contributions through our via our salary sacrifice workplace pension scheme
- Group Income Protection Insurance Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Death In Service Scheme
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Smart casual dress code
At OXTS we’re passionate about inertial navigation and how we can help our customers with our technology. With two decades of experience in combining the best of high precision GNSS receivers and world-class inertial navigation expertise, OXTS’ products have become the industry standard for automotive testing and are widely used in other industries.
The highly accurate RT3000 products are the equipment of choice for vehicle dynamics testing. Our products are used by major car manufacturers and automotive test facilities around the world for applications such as handling and dynamics evaluation, brake testing, steering robot guidance and many more. With the RT-Range S products, OXTS also offers a complete solution for validating advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to Euro and global NCAP standards and for developing the self-driving cars of the future.
Away from the automotive world, our range of combined, compact GNSS/INS systems are also used for airborne and vehicle-based survey and mobile mapping applications, where continuous position and high accuracy orientation information is essential for georeferencing sensor data.
OXTS’ GNSS/INS products are supplied with a comprehensive software suite including powerful data analysis and post-processing applications. We also provide a full technical support service, plus a bespoke technology integration consultancy via our Application Engineering department. Our products are sold and supported globally through a network of channel partners in more than 20 countries worldwide, to provide customers with a local point of contact and support.
