Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant | £ + study support | Liverpool | Permanent

Are you looking to take the next step in your finance career and gain broader accounting experience within a successful manufacturing environment?

We’re recruiting an Assistant Accountant to join an established finance team, offering a great opportunity for someone with a grounding in transactional finance who now wants to develop their month-end and management accounting experience.

You’ll work closely with the Site Finance Manager, taking responsibility for day-to-day financial processing while gradually becoming more involved in month-end reporting and accounting activities. You will be:

• Supporting the day-to-day running of purchase ledger and sales ledger


• Processing and reconciling cash and bank transactions


• Completing bank and balance sheet reconciliations


• Assisting with supplier payments and resolving invoice queries


• Supporting the Site Finance Manager during month end


• Preparing and posting journals


• Assisting with accruals and prepayments


• Supporting the preparation of monthly financial information


• Investigating discrepancies and helping ensure financial information is accurate


• Working with colleagues across the site to resolve finance queries


• Supporting ongoing improvements to finance processes and controls

For this Assistant Accountant role, you will ideally be someone who already has some hands-on finance experience and is keen to broaden their skillset.

• AAT qualified or studying towards AAT, or in the early stages of CIMA/ACCA


• Experienced within an Accounts Assistant, Finance Assistant, Assistant Accountant or similar role


• Comfortable working across transactional finance, including AP, AR and bank reconciliations


• Keen to develop your knowledge of month-end accounting


• Confident using Excel and working with financial data


• Proactive, organised and willing to learn


• Comfortable working in a busy, deadline-driven environment


• Experience using a larger ERP system (SAP, Dynamics 365 etc) would be advantageous


• Manufacturing experience is useful but not essential

You will get:

• £30,000 – £35,000 salary


• Full study support towards your professional qualification


• 25 days holiday


• Company pension


• Healthcare


• Hybrid working once probation has passed


• Excellent exposure to month-end and management accounting


• Opportunity to work closely with an experienced Finance Manager


• Experience within a fast-paced manufacturing environment


• Long-term opportunities to progress as your experience and qualification develop

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