Trainee Accountant

**Trainee Accountant**

£28K-£37K + bonus + benefits

Eastleigh / Remote with away stays once every few months (1-2 nights)

Key skills - attention to details, accuracy, teamwork and building relationships with stakeholders, communication across whole business being comfortable, mainly talking to directors, confidence in telephone and speaking to people.

It doesn’t matter what industry the applicant is from but as mentioned above someone with an interest in engineering is ideal.

Hiring manager would consider a trainee accountant who is doing all rounder end of month tasks.

They need to have good IT skills and be a good/advanced excel user. '

Hybrid working - first few months fully in office for training and then to 2 days at home and 3 days in office.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Management and analysis of capital expenditure against budget and cashflow restraints.
- Forecasting Capital Expenditure
- Appraise new investments / divestment
- Analyse disposals and repairs to highlight product / customer / management issues
- Involvement in replacement programme management
- Production of Capital Expenditure plan
- Fleet / stock control management support
- Fleet maintenance / repair analysis
- Utilisation and inactive reporting and recommendations
- Product category / processing management
- Rate reviews (ROI)
- Procurement analysis - capital / maintenance
- Support wider Asset team with Adhoc tasks
- Adhoc month end tasks and journals to support team

**QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE**:
Essential:

- Studying towards Part/fully qualified CIMA/ACCA/ICAEW
- Advanced Excel Skills
- Strong communication skills
- Challenging approach to work (looking to drive improvements through an understanding of root causes and how they can be effectively implemented)
- Strong planning, time management and attention to detail
- Ability to adapt own approach and priorities in line with changing business needs / priorities