Assistant Accountant - 6 months FTC (Part-Time) in Wakefield

• Assist with financial reporting on both a regular and ad-hoc basis
• Provide and communicate financial information to stakeholders across the business
• Assist with the continuous improvement process for financial reporting in order to ensure that stakeholders' requirements are fully met.

• Participate in projects, providing expertise and support for improving business processes and procedures
• Take responsibility for cultivating positive working relationships with key business stakeholders and finance department peers.

• Generate accruals, prepayments and adjustment journals and providing detailed analysis of overhead expenditure to key stakeholders
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and assisting the financial accountant/finance manager to identify key risks and opportunities within those accounts
• Take responsibility for assigned general ledger accounts to ensure they are correctly stated on a periodic basis
• Produce meaningful commentary to financial reports, enabling departments to manage their budgets more effectively and efficiently
• Ensure the application of operational and financial controls.

• Provide variance analysis and trending techniques to measure cost accounts against budget, forecasts and cash flow.

• A professional qualification of CIMA, AAT, ACA, ACCA or equivalent (or be working towards)

• The ability to understand customers requirements and respond to their feedback, delivering excellent customer service every day
• The ability to drive personal development and share own learning with others
• The ability to be self-motivated and persistent
• Attention to detail
• Proficient analytical and numerical skills.

• Experience of operating in a complex, fast-paced environment
• Experience of using IT packages in particular Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets
• Proven ability to deliver to deadlines.

With an eye on the future and our finger on the pulse of what’s going on in our business, we partner with all of our teams and play a big part in the big decisions.

We support change programmes and capital expenditure projects. We provide business leaders with vital management information and analysis. As well as looking after our cash, accounts and working capital, we also control costs, produce forecasts, deliver insight and manage supplier reporting and supplier payments. There’s never a dull moment.