Assistant Accountant - Leicester, United Kingdom - Vanilla Recruitment (UK) Ltd

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Description

A manufacturing organisation that has been established in Leicester for nearly 130 years is seeking an Assistant Accountant to join their small team to assist with their UK and overseas accounts.


Duties and responsibilities:


  • Responsible for the fixed asset register and depreciation
  • Accruals and prepayments
  • Balance sheet reconciliations
  • Assistant with the preparation of UK accounts to TB
  • Full responsibility for the preparation of accounts to TB for USA accounts
  • Production of weekly payroll BACS and paperwork for approval and checking of timesheets
  • Reconciliation of holiday pots monthly
  • Reconciliation of petty cash and foreign currency advances
  • Processing credit cards employee expenses
  • RGR reconciliation and reporting
  • Processing of Ecommerce sales and receipts and reconciling back to the Ecommerce platform
  • Cover for purchase ledger and sales ledger during holidays and sickness
  • Assistance in the completion of national statistics information.

Skills and experience required:


  • AAT Level
  • Minimum of 2 years previous experience in a similar role
  • Experience of accounts up to trial balance required
  • Overseas accounting experience desirable
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Experience of using accounting software packages (Microsoft Navision desirable)
  • Strong excel skills (pivot tables and VLOOKUP's desirable)

Hours:


  • 37.5 hours per week. Offices open from 7am 6pm (flexible working)

Salary and benefits:

- £27,000 - £30,000

  • 24 days + 8 bank holidays (4 days to be used for Christmas)
  • Hybrid working (2 days in the office / 3 days from home after training period)
  • Life assurance
  • Statutory pension

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