About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Group Accountant to join our existing team in Leeds.

The Role:

Supporting the Group Finance Manager to maintain accurate financial records and maintain an environment of strong financial control

Your Duties and Responsibilities:

• Treasury management including downloading daily statements, creating and monitoring payments, responding to banking queries
• Accurate and timely completion of bank reconciliations each month on WD1
• Maintaining cash records to facilitate cash flow forecasting
• Recording cash and bank transactions in accounting software
• Petty cash management including monthly reconciliations and posting transactions
• Administration of company credit cards, fuel cards and hotel cards. Downloading statements, ensuring all expenditure is receipted and correctly posted to the ledger, aged items concluded in a timely manner, administering user accounts.
• Assisting with completion of VAT returns
• Completion of national statistics questionnaires
• Assisting with statutory accounts and the annual audit
• Working with payroll to manage the salaries balance sheet reconciliations and resolving reconciling items
• Assist in the preparation of the Central management accounts, calculating and posting accruals and prepayments, reviewing balances and looking for variances, completing balance sheet reconciliations
• Any other work as identified by the Group Finance Manager

• Level 3 AAT or equivalent or working towards
• Experience in ERP and finance systems is desirable
• Experience in using Excel preferable but on the job training will be provided for the right candidate