Assistant Management and Project Accountant

Sewell Wallis is recruiting for a Part-qualified Assistant Management Accountant for a well-established B2B subcontracting business, supporting its divisional portfolio from the Group’s Shared Service Centre in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. This is an excellent opportunity for a finalist or part-qualified accountant to join a collaborative finance team, take ownership of key management accounting responsibilities and play an active role in continuous process improvement, with strong progression and study support available.

Alongside your standard month end reporting, you’ll be heavily liaising with multiple entities to review processes, to ensure that all entity reporting is in line with the shared service centre/group expectations. Therefore, you’ll need to be really confident with communicating across departments, managing stakeholders, and enjoying project work around compliance and process improvement.  

What will you be doing?

• Assist in the production of accurate and timely management accounts, ensuring they are completed to a high standard and within published timetables.
• Prepare, review and document monthly balance sheet reconciliations and quarterly VAT returns.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with divisional finance teams and other Group functions.
• Support external and internal audit requirements and year-end reporting, identifying opportunities to streamline annual processes into monthly tasks.
• Review and improve finance processes and controls, supporting the implementation of changes.
• Maintain, update and document appropriate procedure notes across areas of responsibility.
• Get involved in key projects across the Finance Team and wider Group.

What skills are we looking for?

• CIMA/ACCA/ACA finalist or part-qualified.
• Experience of accounting processes in a large/high-volume organisation.
• A positive attitude and desire to take responsibility for an exceptional level of customer service provided by the finance team.
• Demonstrable ability to identify and implement continuous process improvement through project work.
• Ability to provide clear evidence of working to and meeting deadlines in a pressurised environment.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Experience of influencing outside of your own team.

What's on offer?

• Salary £35,000-£40,000
• Healthcare Insurance
• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office.
• Parking available.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Career progression opportunities.
• Study support and development.

Send us your CV below, or contact Jemima Vibert 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.