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AAT/Part Qualified Assistant Accountant - Wakefield

Employer
Sewell Wallis
Location
Kirkhamgate, UK
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Mar 18, 2019

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Job Role
Assistant Accountant
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for a Part Qualified/AAT Qualified Commercial Accountant on a permanent basis within the Wakefield area. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and forward thinking candidate to join an international, well known and respected manufacturing business where they will gain exposure to and learn from a very hands on and knowledgeable Financial Controller. This is a newly created position that has arisen due to year on year growth and is an opportunity to join a company that pride themselves on their high levels of staff retention and offer a clear support and development programme for the successful candidate. This role will report into the Commercial Financial Controller and will work closely with the Finance Business Partners and the marketing team. The role itself is very commercial in nature, allowing exposure to key stakeholders and the wider finance team on a daily basis. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, will be confident in liaising with people at all levels and will be able to challenge senior management in the appropriate way when needed. This role will suit an individual who has a solid and proven accounting background, has a strong work ethic and is really looking to develop and grow with the business long term. The successful candidate will gain full study support, a competitive salary and a great benefits package. The role will predominately focus upon providing support to the sales and marketing teams and will involve not only supporting on the accounting processes around month end but will also be key in providing reporting, analysis and providing ideas and input around improving policies and procedures. The main duties of the role will involve:- -Supporting the Finance Business Partners on a daily basis in order to ensure all financial processes are reported accurately and to strict deadlines. -Assisting in the preparation of timely and accurate monthly management accounts including providing calculations for month end reporting and accruals and prepayments. -Reporting of P & L to provide insightful reporting on performance. -Performing balance sheet reconciliations to assist with the preparation of the quarterly balance sheet files for audit review. -Assisting with the yearly budgeting process and working with the wider Finance team and other teams within the business. -Providing reports around the budgeting and forecasting process and producing variance analysis and commentary around this. -Reviewing promotional and sales spend and working with the sales teams to agree actions. -Supporting IT developments, providing reporting and ensuring systems and controls meet the needs for commercial reporting. -Completing daily sales reports and ensuring robust controls for audit purposes. -Working on ad-hoc projects alongside the Finance Business Partners. The ideal candidate will: - -Have extremely good communication skills, will be confident presenting themselves to senior management and will be able to challenge ideas when needed. - Ideally have experience of working in a sales and marketing financial environment and will be comfortable supporting on project work. -Be able to develop and build relationships with customers both internal and external. -Ideally be AAT qualified or be studying ACCA/CIMA and keen to develop a career in finance. -Have experience of working within an accounting team and have an understanding of the demands of this type of role. - Have good analysis skills or will naturally enjoy interpreting date and providing commentary and detail around findings. -Be able to work within a fast paced, deadline orientated environment. -Have excellent attention to detail and will pick up new skills quickly. -Have strong Word and Excel skills and will be comfortable with Pivots and V-lookups. For further details please contact Gemma Watmough on . Sewell Wallis acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. As part of our recruitment process, we will retain your CV for a period of one year to enable us to consider you for future roles. After this period your CV will be deleted.

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