Accounts Assistant MATERNITY COVER (Trainee or Improver)

Accounts person required for Maternity Cover commencing 2nd September 2024 until 31 December 2025. Contract Duration 16 months.
This role is a key position within the finance function, to support the finance department in its day to day running of the business.
To assist the Head of Finance manage and control the business by providing support in the preparation of accounts, budgets, KPIs, analysis, cash forecasts and other adhoc analysis required.

DUTIES

• Assist the Head of Finance in the preparation of the Management Accounts


• Prepare and post month end journals


• Review and check month end stock quantities and values, before preparing and posting the stock journals


• Prepare nominal ledger variance analysis as required, correcting mis-postings as appropriate


• Prepare month end sales analysis and compare to forecast


• Prepare month end flash profit results for the Gateshead and Powys sites


• Assist the Head of Finance in the preparation of the year-end Accounts, preparing supporting schedules for the auditors as required.


• Responsible for preparing the Coventry site sales KPIs


• Ensure the Sage Sales Price List is accurately updated and correct


• Micro manage ad hoc sales accounts, raising Purchase 0rders, ensuring sales are properly recorded and reconciled difference between despatched and invoiced, booking goods in.


• Posting company credit card and petty cash spend to nominal ledger ensure reconciles


• Holiday/sickness cover for the Sales Ledger and Purchase ledger administrators


• Raising despatch notes as required


• Daily update of the cashflow forecast for actuals on the ID bank and current account


• Assist the Head of Finance in the preparation of the quarter cashflow forecast


• Ensure that cash transactions are correctly recorded and bank reconciliations are performed on a weekly basis (Holiday cover only)


• Prepare analysis for Transport and other spend as required


• Setting up new starters on clocking system


• Recording holidays (staff and hourly Cov) on clocking system


• Assist the Head of Finance as required with adhoc tasks requiring excel spreadsheet skills


• Provide support for the Head of Purchasing, assisting with analysis or PO raising as required
  
  Highly IT literate with very strong Microsoft Excel skills


• Excellent knowledge of Sage Accounting


• 2 years or more experience working within a highly disciplined Finance Department with robust systems of control


• AAT qualified


ATTRIBUTES

• Action orientated - Able to deal with problems in appropriate time frames


• Driven by results - Decisive, confident addressing problems and opportunities, challenging activities to improve performance, demonstrate willingness to challenge accepted methods and standards


• Effective communication - Clear concise written and spoken, ability at all levels, customer, supplier and internal


• High Standards - demonstrating a motivation to improve standards and thereby making a real difference, challenging inadequate solutions


• Integrity and trust - demonstrating a sense of commitment to openness, honesty, loyalty and high standards in undertaking the role


• People management - demonstrating commitment to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders
  
  Hours are 36.50 per week at start/end times to suit. We can also be flexible in a reduction of hours down to 30 per week min

33 Days holiday per annum
Contract 16 months paid monthly. End Date 31st Dec 2025
Rate of Pay will depend on experience between 25k to £28k pa
Will consider candidates with some experience that may have just finished training etc.