Assistant Accountant

Description:

Assistant Accountant Needed Torbay

Your new company

A well-established, multi-site organisation delivering essential services within a regulated environment.
The business operates at scale while retaining a collaborative, hands-on culture, supported by a small but agile finance function.
Finance plays a key role within the organisation, not only ensuring accuracy and control but also supporting continuous improvement across financial processes and reporting.

Your new role

This is a hands-on Assistant Accountant position focused on supporting month-end processes and improving the accuracy and integrity of financial data.
A key part of the role will involve preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, investigating discrepancies across multiple accounts and periods, and working through underlying transactional data to identify and implement corrections.
You will be expected to go beyond basic reconciliation activity, applying strong accounting understanding to assess accuracy, resolve issues and improve existing processes.

Responsibilities will include:

Preparing timely monthly balance sheet reconciliations

Investigating and resolving discrepancies across multiple accounts and entities

Working with large datasets to analyse and correct financial information

Proposing and implementing improvements to reconciliation and reporting processes

Supporting month-end close including:

Accruals and prepayments

Fixed assets and depreciation journals

Supporting the preparation of month-end financial reporting

In addition, you will provide ad hoc cover across the wider finance function, including support for sales ledger, credit control and payroll processes when required.

What you'll need to succeed

You will have proven experience in an Assistant Accountant or similar role, with strong exposure to month-end processes and balance sheet reconciliations.
You will be confident reviewing financial data, investigating discrepancies and applying accounting knowledge to resolve issues.
Strong Excel skills are essential, including experience working with large datasets and using functions such as VLOOKUPs and pivot tables.
You will have a solid understanding of double-entry bookkeeping and be comfortable posting journals including accruals, prepayments and depreciation.
You will be highly analytical, detail-driven and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.

What you'll get in return

* Competitive hourly rate, depending on experience
* Office-based role in the Torbay area
* Immediate start available
* Initial 3-month assignment with potential for extension

What you need to do now

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