Job description
Assistant Accountant | £30,000 - £35,000 + Study Support | Bolton | PE-backed business | High-calibre team
Axon Moore are delighted to be partnering with a high-growth PE-backed business in Bolton to recruit an Assistant Accountant who is hard-working, driven and keen to succeed. This is a highly sought-after role which is well suited to ambitious Part-Qualified ACCA/CIMA seeking to grow and develop alongside a business as there will be plenty of scope for long-term progression.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
Axon Moore are delighted to be partnering with a high-growth PE-backed business in Bolton to recruit an Assistant Accountant who is hard-working, driven and keen to succeed. This is a highly sought-after role which is well suited to ambitious Part-Qualified ACCA/CIMA seeking to grow and develop alongside a business as there will be plenty of scope for long-term progression.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Production of the monthly management accounts
- Reporting actuals against budgets
- Managing payroll each month for a number of entities
- Weekly cashflow forecasting and KPI reporting
- Monitoring control environment (balance sheet reconciliations / system processes)
- Monthly transactional analysis
- Management of Fixed Asset schedule and posting depreciation to management accounts
- Management of prepayments and accruals
- Raising sales invoices and posting purchase invoices
- Intercompany reconciliations
- Opportunity to lead a number of projects and improvement projects
- Management of quarterly VAT returns
- Supplier payments
- Support with external audit
- Ad-hoc reporting
- AAT Qualified or Part-Qualified ACCA/CIMA
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Good organisational and time-keeping skills
- High attention to detail and able to take ownership of their role
- Good IT and MS Excel skills
- Prior exposure to month-ends
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Birthday/celebration day off
- Healthcare cashback plan
- Company pension (4% employer contribution)
- 5x Life Assurance