Assistant Accountant
Meet Our Recruiter
Lawrie Bacon
About the Role
Sewell Wallis are working with a well established business based near Altrincham, Greater Manchester, as they look to recruit an experienced Assistant Accountant to join their finance team.
This Assistant Accountant role will support the Senior Accountant with month end tasks, whilst also providing support where necessary to the small transactional team. This position would suit a candidate with experience of working in an Assistant Accountant capacity previously, who is comfortable working in a high volume environment and enjoys project work as well as BAU tasks.
If you're an experienced Assistant Accountant/Accounts Assistant wanting to take the next step in your career, I'd love to hear from you!
What will you be doing?
- Assist in monthly management accounts preparation
- Reconcile and clear Nominal Ledger accounts
- Input and code cash book payments/receipts
- Maintain accurate Fixed Asset/Demo/SDH/Used Write Down schedules
- Assist in preparation of year end accounts
- Maintain Company petty cash records
- Assist with backlog project work across PL/SL/CC
- Prepare VAT return quarterly
- Prepare Bank reconciliation
What skills do we need?
- Previous experience within a similar role.
- AAT qualified or equivalent QBE
- Strong IT knowledge, especially in Excel and accounting systems.
- Attention to detail
- Background in Sales Ledger/Credit Control (desirable)
What's on offer?
- Highly Competitive salary - £35-£37K
- Company pension
- Flexible working hours
- Holidays that increase with length of service
Please apply below, or for more information, contact Lawrie Bacon.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.