Description
Assistant Financial Accountant
Role Summary
We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Glascoed as a Assistant Financial Accountant.
The role will be an initial 8 month contract and will provide you with the opportunity to report directly to the Financial Accountant, the role will support the wider Record to Report team deliver a quality accounting service to the Business units whilst ensuring our strong financial controls are maintained.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare Balance Sheet Reconciliations and resolve any reconciling items arising from your own and colleagues' reconciliations.
- Supporting the ongoing reduction of reconciling item numbers and identifying methods to drive down items arising on a recurrent basis.
- Administer Fixed asset transactions including capitalisation, disposals and depreciation
- Process payroll files into the accounting systems and manage employee benefit schemes
- Supporting data input on various accounting systems and the monthly financial close process
- Preparation of monthly journals including the calculation of accruals and prepayments.
- Posting leasing entries into the accounting system and reconciliation of the control accounts
- Calculation of provisions including bad debt
- Monthly and yearly reporting in line with company deadlines.
- Developing good understanding of the various business units including Timetables, Chart of Accounts, Service Level Agreements, Accounting Systems, processes, systems and business.
- Developing strong relationships with your finance contacts, through regular interaction ensuring a high level of service is maintained.
- Supporting and leading the team in various compliance, continuous improvement and process standardisation activities. Identifying, implementing and driving value added activities throughout the organisation.
- Supporting internal and external audit requests and various other compliance activities.
Key skills & qualifications
- Understand Financial Controls and Data Protection regulations
- Strong analytical skills and a vigilant approach to problem solving
- Intermediate level Excel skills
- Good interpersonal and influencing skills
- Strong organisational skills and a clear communicator
- Vigilant approach to problem solving
- Good working knowledge of SAP, Oracle and Hyperion would be desirable
- Studying towards a professional accountancy qualification would be desirable
What we're looking for in you
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Well-developed analytical/problem solving/decision making skills.
Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.
Stakeholder management skills.
Location: Glascoed
Rate: £16.00 per hour (INSIDE IR35)
AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.