Salary: £30k - 35k per year
Reference: 61307
Assistant Accountant | £30,000-35,000 + study support | Liverpool | Permanent
Are you looking to take the next step in your finance career and gain broader accounting experience within a successful manufacturing environment?
We’re recruiting an Assistant Accountant to join an established finance team, offering a great opportunity for someone with a grounding in transactional finance who now wants to develop their month-end and management accounting experience.
You’ll work closely with the Site Finance Manager, taking responsibility for day-to-day financial processing while gradually becoming more involved in month-end reporting and accounting activities. You will be:
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Supporting the day-to-day running of purchase ledger and sales ledger
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Processing and reconciling cash and bank transactions
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Completing bank and balance sheet reconciliations
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Assisting with supplier payments and resolving invoice queries
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Supporting the Site Finance Manager during month end
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Preparing and posting journals
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Assisting with accruals and prepayments
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Supporting the preparation of monthly financial information
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Investigating discrepancies and helping ensure financial information is accurate
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Working with colleagues across the site to resolve finance queries
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Supporting ongoing improvements to finance processes and controls
For this Assistant Accountant role, you will ideally be someone who already has some hands-on finance experience and is keen to broaden their skillset.
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AAT qualified or studying towards AAT, or in the early stages of CIMA/ACCA
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Experienced within an Accounts Assistant, Finance Assistant, Assistant Accountant or similar role
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Comfortable working across transactional finance, including AP, AR and bank reconciliations
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Keen to develop your knowledge of month-end accounting
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Confident using Excel and working with financial data
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Proactive, organised and willing to learn
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Comfortable working in a busy, deadline-driven environment
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Experience using a larger ERP system (SAP, Dynamics 365 etc) would be advantageous
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Manufacturing experience is useful but not essential
You will get:
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£30,000 – £35,000 salary
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Full study support towards your professional qualification
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25 days holiday
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Company pension
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Healthcare
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Hybrid working once probation has passed
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Excellent exposure to month-end and management accounting
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Opportunity to work closely with an experienced Finance Manager
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Experience within a fast-paced manufacturing environment
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Long-term opportunities to progress as your experience and qualification develop
