You will be an experienced Assistant Accountant with a minimum of three years experience working within a busy commercial finance environment and are looking for the opportunity to develop your career within 3173, a high growth provider of financial services to the pensions industry.
You will be able to demonstrate your practical experience in supporting a commercial organisation through the provision of a high quality invoicing and accounts receivable service.
You will be a confident communicator with the ability to work with senior leaders and use your influencing skills to achieve the best outcomes for the business.
You will be highly competent in the use of Microsoft Excel.
You will thrive in a collaborative, fast movingteam basedenvironment and able to support and contribute to the development of the wider Finance team.
You will be a diligent and driven individual with a high level of attention to detail.
Someone who is confident, thorough and conscientious will do well in this role.
The ability and confidence to highlight and escalate, where relevant, any challenges or risks to the senior leadership team is a must.
You will be able to easily build effective working relationships at all levels.
We want the successful candidate to have an opportunity to grow their professional qualifications and capability and career as our business develops.
We will offer the successful candidate the opportunity to obtain a recognised professional qualification such as IATI with the cost of training and a study leave package fully funded by 3173.
The Role This role within our Finance Department will support our group of businesses across the UK.
This role will report directly to the Financial Controller.
Assistant Accountant duties initially will include a focus on accounts payable ensuring accuracy and efficiency of operations, processing andmonitoringincoming purchase invoices and ensuring theaccurateandtimelyrecording of business expenses across our nominal ledger, together with ensuring that all suppliers are paid within agreed terms.
The role will expand to include general assistant accountant work, including accounts receivable, preparation of management accounts etc.
As withall ofour group supporting roles, you will be working in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders.
It is an exciting time to join our group of businesses as we are developing ina number ofstrategic areas.
This role will play a key part in delivering against our growth strategy to ensure we provide ahigh qualityservice and deliver excellent value for money.
Your responsibilities will include: Ensure the correct approval of all supplier invoices.
Ensure the correct coding and posting of all supplier invoices.
Prepare reconciliations of theaccountspayable ledger to supplier statements to ensure that all purchase invoices and payments are accounted for and accurately.
Ensure that expenses incurred on behalf of clients are captured ona timelybasis and invoiced to customers.
Perform monthly bank reconciliations and other nominal ledger reconciliations asrequired.
Assistin the preparation ofaccurate InterCompanyreconciliations.
Assistin the preparation of monthly management reporting packs to allow management to understand and analyse spend versus budget.
Ensure that all employee expense claims are appropriately approved, within policy, and processed efficiently.
Ensure that all company credit card expenses are correctly coded and posted.
Ensure company credit card spend is within policy.
Support the preparation of weekly and monthly cashflow analysis.
Support the production of Management Accounting and Financial Accounting information asrequired.
Support the preparation of budget and forecast information asrequired.
Support the Financial Accountant and Financial Controller on other tasks asrequired.
Minimum (essential) Requirements: Technical & Functional Degree in a relevant discipline such as finance,accountingor business.
Experience working as part of a finance or accounts team within a professional services organisation.
OR Educated to GCSE to include Maths and English A minimum of 1 years recent experience in a working in a financial setting AND Experience in a client centric environment.
Experience undertaking a broad range of financial andbook keepingduties such as journal postings, ledgerreconciliations, preparationof monthly/yearly accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable.
Proven ability to calculate, post and manage financial transactions.
Recent practical experience of accounting software.
Practical knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite; particularly in the use of Excel.
Good understanding of basic accounting principles.
An awareness of good accounting and regulatory practices.
Good data entry and numeracy skills Ability to work under pressure with a positive can do attitude.
Strong attention to detail and focus on accuracy Ability to work within a team as well as independently Strong customer service and focus on service excellence Highly flexible, including willingness to work flexible hours at peak times Fluent in English (C2 or above) Must be eligible to work in region Be able to commute to offices and client sites.
Desirable requirements: Degree or other higher level qualification A minimum of 3 years recent experience in a similar accounts/finance position, within a fast paced, high growth professional services organisation.
Qualified or part qualified Accounting Technician.
Experience in the use of Microsoft Navision.
Experience of using of advanced financial modelling techniques such as pivots,macrosor lookups.
Experience in the use of Microsoft Access.
Skills: Accounting Finance Invoicing Benefits: Pension Dental Medical Aid / Health Care Flexible Annual Leave Car Leasing Scheme Social and Events Hybrid Working