Assistant Accountant - Bradford, United Kingdom - WM Morrisons

WM Morrisons

Verified Company

Bradford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About The Role

Due to a recent acquisition we're recruiting for an Assistant Accountant - Convenience who will report to one of our Finance Managers.

You'll be responsible for the support and delivery of company-wide transactions and processes within the Finance function ensuring that your thinking is Customer first in all aspects of your role.

Key responsibilities include:

Assist with financial reporting on both a regular and ad hoc basis.
Suggest continuous improvement ideas to ensure that stakeholders requirements are fully met and/or exceeded.
Retain a customer focus through daily routines.
Participate in projects, providing support for improving business processes and procedures.
Provide and communicate financial information required.
Take responsibility for cultivating positive working relationships with key business stakeholders and finance department peers.
Generate accruals, prepayments and adjustment journals, providing detailed analysis of overhead expenditure to key stakeholders.
Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and assist 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 commentary to financial reports, enabling departments to manage their budgets more effectively and efficiently.
Provide variance analysis and trending techniques to measure performance against budget, forecasts and business cases.

About You
For this role we are looking for someone who has:

A 'Can do' proactive approach
An ability to deliver in a complex, fast paced environment
Proficient analytical and numerical skills
The ability to build good relationships
Experience of operating in a finance function/environment preferred
Experience of using Google sheets/Microsoft Excel preferred
Experience of delivering to deadlines
Good verbal communication skills, ability to articulate financial data in a clear and transparent way
Resilience and ability to adapt in an ever changing environment
Attention to detail

About the team

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 insightand manage supplier reporting and supplier payments.

There's never a dull moment in our Finance team.