Temporary Assistant Financial Accountant

3 weeks ago


Dewsbury, United Kingdom UK Greetings Full time

Learn more about us and the role:
Could you be our new Assistant Financial Accountant?

Are you self-motivated and keen to develop in a Company that puts people first?Do you have excellent analytical skills and a passion to for numbers?If so, then this could be the role for you
An exciting opportunity is available to cover a period of 7 months within our Finance team.The role of Assistant Financial Accountant, reporting into the Financial Accountant is at an entry level which will provide a solid opening into the Finance profession.

Did we mention that we offer hybrid working tooFlexibility to work in the office and at home.
**Who are we looking for?**
You should be a tenacious, confident self-starter, with an appetite to learn and strong attention to detail.

You’ll be working with teams across the organisation, including personnel at the company’s locations in the USA and Australasia.
Key attributes should include:

- Be highly organized and possess excellent communication and analytical skills.
- Be able to adapt to changing priorities, with the ability to multi-task being key.
- Excel & Microsoft Office knowledge is essential, as is the ability to work to strict deadlines.

**Key activities & responsibilities include**:

- Prepayments & Inter-Company - aspects of accounting and reconciliation
- Employee Expenses - shared involvement in aspects of the wider process.
- Import / export duty data reconciliation
- Preparing overheads departmental reports
- Analysis work, and assisting the wider Finance team on project work as required
- Investigating reconciling items to a satisfactory resolution.
- Management of petty cash, plus the ad-hoc banking of staff shop cash receipts.
- Posting accounting journals in the ledger as necessary in the areas of remit.
- Analysis work on tax sensitive types of expenditure.
- Responsibility for producing balance sheet reconciliations for the accounting areas within the remit of the role.

You should be a strong communicator, a professional approach and the ability to build relationships whilst liaising with key internal departments.

A basic understanding of double entry book-keeping is essential and ideally also VAT. Applicants should have an interest in pursuing a career in Finance or can demonstrate experience within the sector.
This role operates in a hybrid working pattern of office-based days and working from home.Head Office is based in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

Notes/Brief for Recruitment Team:
Who we are

We help make the world a more thoughtful and caring place every single day with our greeting cards and gift dressings created for life’s big events, special occasions and those “saw-this-and-thought-of-you” moments of life. Along with our sister Company JohnSands, we’re part of the American Greetings Corporation, one of the largest privately owned greeting card publishers in the world.
We are the largest direct to retail publisher of greeting cards in the UK - so you’ll find our amazing products just about everywhere
Here at UK Greetings we take pride in being an inclusive and diverse employer - we are dedicated and committed to building a culture where difference is valued and everyone is able to fulfil thei


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