Assistant Accountant - Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited : Job Details

Your new company

You will be working for a market-leading professional services business who require an Assistant Accountant on a 6-month FTC basis, to assist during the restructuring period.

Your new role

• Responsible for designated balance sheet reconciliation
• Identification and resolution of outstanding legacy balances across debtors, creditors and bank ledgers
• Preparing and posting journals to reflect the correct account balances
• Proactively working with Financial Operations and Group Financial Control to resolve issues, aged invoices and variances
• Work with business stakeholders and finance on systems and process improvement initiatives
• Identify and document best practice to avoid a reoccurrence of issues
• Provide regular reporting updates, demonstrating progress and highlighting obstacles and next steps

What you'll need to succeed

• Part Qualified Accountant or QBE.
• Strong analytical skills coupled with a good business understanding leading to key business insight.
• Team player and creative problem solver with a can-do attitude.
• Strong people skills, confident and comfortable at engaging collaboratively in an international environment
• Solid appreciation of the core best practice financial accounting standards, policies, processes and systems
• Excellent Microsoft skills, coupled with working knowledge and practical application of packages such as Power BI or similar

What you'll get in return

• A competitive salary of circa £40k per annum, alongside other benefits - please reach out for more information.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Jack Bailey, the specialist consultant managing this vacancy, on .

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