Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant | £30,000 - £35,000 + Study Support | Bolton | PE-backed business | High-calibre team

Axon Moore are delighted to be partnering with a high-growth PE-backed business in Bolton to recruit an Assistant Accountant who is hard-working, driven and keen to succeed. This is a highly sought-after role which is well suited to ambitious Part-Qualified ACCA/CIMA seeking to grow and develop alongside a business as there will be plenty of scope for long-term progression.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Production of the monthly management accounts
• Reporting actuals against budgets
• Managing payroll each month for a number of entities
• Weekly cashflow forecasting and KPI reporting
• Monitoring control environment (balance sheet reconciliations / system processes)
• Monthly transactional analysis
• Management of Fixed Asset schedule and posting depreciation to management accounts
• Management of prepayments and accruals
• Raising sales invoices and posting purchase invoices
• Intercompany reconciliations
• Opportunity to lead a number of projects and improvement projects
• Management of quarterly VAT returns
• Supplier payments
• Support with external audit
• Ad-hoc reporting

Required Experience and Skills:

• AAT Qualified or Part-Qualified ACCA/CIMA
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Good organisational and time-keeping skills
• High attention to detail and able to take ownership of their role
• Good IT and MS Excel skills
• Prior exposure to month-ends

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Birthday/celebration day off
• Healthcare cashback plan
• Company pension (4% employer contribution)
• 5x Life Assurance

“Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Jack Moss at 07432597035, jmoss@axonmoore.com or see our website at www.axonmoore.com.”