Assistant Accountant
About the Role
Sewell Wallis are currently working with a highly successful multi-national business based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire who are looking to recruit an Assistant Accountant for a 4-month fixed term contract. This is an excellent opportunity for someone wanting gain valuable experience and support a great team though a transitional period on an interim basis.
This is a great role for someone with Assistant Accountant level experience looking for a new challenge. If you're immediately available for a fixed term contract and would enjoy working from home 3 days per week, then this could be the role for you!
What will you be doing?
- Producing Monthly Accounts for overhead cost centres and assisting with budgets and forecasts.
- Reconciling and processing of prepayments, accruals and standard charges.Balance Sheet reconciliation.
- Investigating and resolving historic discrepancies to assist with the onboarding of new accounts.
- Oversee and assist in the completion of all bank account reconciliations.
- Assist in the preparation of Statutory Accounts and Tax Packs and ensure year-end schedules required for tax packs are completed on a monthly basis.
- Reconciliation of PSA to ensure correct calculation and submissions to HMRC.
- Monthly reconciliation of inter-company accounts with other group companies.
- Quarterly preparation of VAT returns.
- Processing Intercompany Journals.
- Replenishing and reconciling petty cash.
- The administration and reconciliation of Fixed asset control accounts and produce related reports for management at all levels within the business.
- Managing the capital approval processes, ensuring compliance with regional and group policies.
What skills are we looking for?
- Experience within an Assistant Accountant role or similar.
- Confidence in investigating and resolving discrepancies.
- Strong communication skills.
- A confident Excel user (e.g., VLOOKUP's and Pivot Tables).
What's on offer?
- Hybrid working
- Flexible hours
- Potential contract extension
Send us your CV below or 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.
