Accountant in Training

3 weeks ago


Wigan Greater Manchester, United Kingdom NRL Group Full time

The NRL Group have an incredible opportunity to join their growing business, based in Wigan. Reporting to the Group Head of Finance we are looking for a Financial Accountant to contribute to the strategic growth of the business through your analysis, your understanding of what our data tells us about our underlying business, and your ability to provide clarity to our Leadership Team in order to facilitate their decision-making. This role will also manage our Accounts department, which is a team of four.
All training will be provided to manage the everyday tasks the role will be responsible for.
Here are just a few reasons why this Financial Accountant role could be the perfect long-term destination for your career:
Growth Potential: We are a business with a long-established track-record of growth, and with collective growth comes individual opportunities to grow your influence and career.
Diverse Experience: We are a diverse Group, operating in multiple sectors and verticals, and you will have exposure to every aspect of our business and the ability to impact through your work in providing rapid, data-driven financial analysis to aiding in long-term budgeting and forecasting.
We are proud to have built our business on core company values of integrity, transparency, and work-life balance.
As Financial Accountant your main responsibilities will include:
Business partnering with our Leadership Team and the wider business heads to report and discuss results and conduct variance analysis against budgets and forecasts. Ensuring the preparation of monthly management accounts are accurate and on time by managing and supporting the Accounts team to ensure all journals are posted and all balance sheet control accounts are balanced each month. Where required, you will be comfortable carrying out reconciliations yourself and be willing to ‘muck-in’ to ensure the team are well supported and able to meet all deadlines, and you will then review all balance sheet reconciliations, monthly, with the Group Head of Finance.
Partnering with transactional Finance teams to problem solve and look for efficiencies in the way our work is delivered. All our Finance teams are closely integrated with one another, and this requires a collaborative style of work amongst the Finance heads.
Providing financial support for strategic initiatives including new market opportunities (we currently operate in 26 countries, trading in 10 different currencies and across 4 different Banks, but expect this to grow), mergers, acquisitions, technology advancements and other finance projects as they arise.
Along with the other Finance heads, you will champion the use of the Group’s new finance software, Oracle Netsuite, across the business and become a ‘Superuser’, challenging the business to take advantage of the system’s full capabilities for rapid, self-service data driven analysis and live reporting in order to deliver great service to the business as well as deliver efficiencies in the way the Accounts team currently works

At the NRL Group, our people play an integral role on major projects across a range of critical sectors including renewable energy, power generation and infrastructure. We’ve provided technical engineering recruitment, workforce solutions and contracting services for over 40 years, and our success is down to the individuals in our regional branches and support office teams – working together to drive continuous improvement and innovation. It’s important to us that every person is given the opportunity to grow and develop their capability – and as a Living Wage Employer, we’re committed to paying a fair salary for their valued contribution. Teamed with training and support to help our colleagues flourish. You will enjoy applying your skills in a very fast environment, with an emphasis on taking responsibility for problem-solving and delivering quality work to tight deadlines.
You will have experience of working with large volumes of weekly data and a track-record of using such data to shine light on the underlying performance of a business.
Excellent communication skills, particularly in communicating financial information to non-financial managers.
A strong preference for personal interaction with colleagues, including visiting our branch network, rather than relying purely on email and messaging.
Excellent Excel skills are required, with a particular emphasis on handling large data sets.
Previous experience in working with Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word is essential.
Profit based quarterly bonus scheme
~25 days holiday – with the option to purchase additional days each year
~ Competitive pension scheme
~ Health Cash Plan medical expense allowance
~ Personal finance coach, health checks and tailored finance advice
~ Hybrid working environment once training is completed to a satisfactory level (working from home and office)
~ Long service awards
~ Benefits platform including wellbeing, cycle to work scheme, paid charity days and life assurance

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