Assistant Accountant
About the Role
Sewell Wallis are currently working with a large, well-established organisation based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, as they look to recruit an Assistant Accountant on a temp to perm basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly successful and widely respected business and develop professionally.
The Assistant Accountant will work closely with an experienced finance team, gaining exposure to a wide range of responsibilities across reporting, month-end and commercial finance. This role would suit someone detail-driven and looking to for a new challenge within a large, structured organisation and who is available at short notice for a temp to perm position.
What will you be doing?
- Preparing accurate weekly and monthly customer financial reports.
- Weekly and monthly invoicing and resolving any related queries.
- Compiling journals on a weekly and monthly basis ensuring accuracy.
- Supporting month-end processes including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals and prepayments
- Providing detailed information for all balance sheet entries
- Supporting budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Producing analysis and insight for weekly operational reporting.
- Ensuring correct GL coding and adherence to finance policies
- Challenging operational teams to improve accuracy and timeliness of information and assisting with continuous improvement activity within finance.
- Providing support to the Finance Manager and the wider finance team as needed.
What skills are we looking for?
- Experience within an Assistant Accountant or similar finance role.
- Confident working with journals, balance sheets, invoicing and month-end reporting.
- Solid understanding of double-entry bookkeeping.
- Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Proactive, analytical and comfortable challenging information when required.
- A strong collaborator with the ability to work independently.
What's on offer?
- Hybrid working
- Free onsite parking
- Retail discounts
- Well-being & benefits portal
- Healthcare cash plan
Apply below to avoid missing out, or please contact Eleanor Kirk for more information.
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.
