Purpose of the role:
As the Assistant Accountant, your primary task will be to assist the Finance Manager and Finance Director in the preparation of monthly management accounts.
Responsibilities:
- Monthly bank reconciliations
- Monthly processing of accruals, including making suitable judgements to ensure the adequacy and appropriateness of the various accruals
- Monthly review of the Nominal Ledgers to ensure that costs are matched appropriately to the period to which they relate, and the maintenance of prepayments and other supporting spreadsheets
- Monthly posting of deferred income, ensuring that the revenue is recognised in the correct period; production of reconciliations to the relevant revenue sub-ledgers and supporting schedules
- Processing of other month-end N/L journals on the company’s Navision accounting system
- Reconciling and balancing various inter-company loan accounts
Skills required:
- Strong MS Excel skills and reasonable proficiency in other MS Office applications
- Experience of using ERP Systems (ideally MS Navision)
- Experience of producing accurate information to tight deadlines