Group Assistant Accountant
Department: Business Services - Finance
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Bristol
Description
The Group Assistant Accountant is a varied role involving month-end reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, finance business partnering, cash flow forecasting and budgeting.
The Group Assistant Accountant role reports to the Group Financial Reporting Manager and sits within the Group Financial Reporting & Control team.
The Group Finance Reporting & Control team is responsible for the consolidation of group results, financial reporting to the Board and banks, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, statutory reporting, treasury, cash flow management, working capital analysis, management of processes and procedures, Group financial policies and risk management.
Key Responsibilities
- Assisting with the preparation of monthly Management Accounts for reporting to Board and Banks
- Preparation of various balance sheet reconciliations and validation of data, including:
- - Trade debtors and bad debt provisions
- - Unbilled disbursements
- - Deferred income
- - Unbilled revenue (work-in-progress, WIP)
- Assisting the Finance Business Partner with the management of overheads for Business Services.
- Monthly analytical review of overhead variances against budget, posting accruals, prepayments etc where required.
- Assisting in the preparation of overhead budgets and forecasts for Business Services.
- Partnering with the Business and dealing with ad hoc queries.
- Supporting the production of the year-end accounts and preparation of relevant information for the external auditors.
- Preparation of the cash flow forecast, including preparing correspondence for the bank.
- Preparation of the cash management spreadsheet on a weekly basis.
- Assisting with ad hoc tasks and projects as delegated by Senior Finance staff.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- The successful candidate will have a positive attitude and be willing to "roll their sleeves up" to understand the detail.
- Knowledge of basic accounting and bookkeeping principles is preferred.
- Ideally working towards a ACCA / CIMA / ACA qualification. Accountancy graduate or Advanced AAT student would also be considered.
- Must be a highly motivated self-starter, able to work well within a team environment, solve problems, learn and grow.
- Strong skills in Excel are required.
- Experience of working in a finance department is preferred.
- Able to communicate confidently orally and in writing.
- Able to be flexible in terms of a changing environment and constantly-changing workload.
- IT literate with working knowledge of MS Windows applications. Experience of working with 3E would be a distinct advantage.
- Organised and able to handle multiple demands and deadlines simultaneously.
