Assistant Accountant - Southampton, United Kingdom - Page Personnel Finance

Page Personnel Finance

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Southampton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Page Personnel is exclusively supporting a high delivery FMCG business with their recruitment of an Assistant Accountant to join their accountancy team on a 3-6 month full
- time basis. The role is to cover maternity leave and reports to the Finance Managerworking in a team of 5. The role is almost fully remote but travel to the office will be required throughout the assignment on an adhoc basis.

Client Details
Our client is a market leading FMCG business that has been operating for over 10 years.

They have gone from strength to strength and since a recent acquisition have really ambitious and exciting growth plans forecast for the next 5 years.

Description
As the Assistant Accountant, you will be responsible for:

Supporting with the day to day transactional duties including purchase ledger & sales ledger
Reconciliation work balance sheet, bank reconciliation
Supporting the Management Accountant with the production of monthly management accounts
Accruals, journals and prepayments
Dealing with queries from suppliers
Any other adhoc duties as required by the Finance Manager

Profile
In order to be considered for the Assistant Accountant role, you must:

Have previously worked in a similar role and be able to demonstrate this
Be immediately available or on short notice
Be local to the Southampton area so you are able to commute easily when required
Be a good team player
Be confident using accounting software e.g. Xero/Sage 50
Be able to multitask

Job Offer
Varied role

Competitive salary

Almost full remote