Assistant Accountant - Leicester, United Kingdom - Flowers Associates

Flowers Associates

Verified Company

Leicester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Assistant Accountant
Leicester LE2 (home working up to 3 days per week)

Salary:
£30k

Hours:
Mon-Fri, 37.5 hours a week, with early finish on Fridays
Permanent Vacancy
The Opportunity

A Leicester business heaped in history manufacturing market leading, luxury products, distributing them via a network of retailers and a direct online shop, this business turns over shy of £7m per year.

This is a newly created role due to company growth wherethe Head of Finance requires a "second in command" to assist with financial reporting and the day to day supervision of daily finance operations.

If you like "Traditional" this is the company for you.

The Role:
In addition to overseeing a small team and the finance op's, you'll be supporting the FC with the following duties covering their UK and US entities:

Responsible for the fixed asset register and depreciation charges
Record accurately and efficiently the accruals and prepayments
Assist the Finance Manager with balance sheet reconciliations
Assist in the preparation of Management Accounts
Oversee BACS Payments
To reconcile and oversee cash (including foreign currency advances) utilised for the business, ensuring authorisation and documentation are in line with policies
To process credit card expenditure and personal employee expenses through the portal checking the cost and VAT split against uploaded receipts, and to chase and escalate any overdue costs
Record accurately and efficiently the E-Commerce sales and receipts in Microsoft NAV, reconciling back to the E-Commerce platform and accounting for any differences to ensure completeness

We're looking for an established number 2, able to demo experience in a similar role.

AAT qualified preferred or Qualified by Experience, you'll be in place where you've reached your aspirations, more interested in a role with breadth and depth more than scopeto progress upwards and/or study ACCA / CIMA.

You'll need to be well versed in fiancé operations, accruals, prepayments and reconciliation of ledgers and balance sheets. Excel skills will need to be intermediate to advanced (Pivot Tables / Look Up's). In summary,you'll be someone that loves to be busy,
The Benefits
Salary c£30k, 24 days holiday, hybrid working (3 days home, 2 days office, Pension scheme.