Accounts Assistant

5 hours ago

Walsall, United Kingdom Kinver Care Full time

Salary is Competitive

**Assistant Accountant - Job Description**

**MAIN PURPOSE**

You will play a crucial role in the operational and transactional processes of the team, supporting the month-end and annual reporting cycle. As one of the key contacts within the team for providing documentation and maintaining good governance, you will often be a point of contact for audit, budget holders and management.

**DUTIES**
- Support the year-end accounts process.
- Assist in the production of adhoc financial and non-financial information.
- The key contact in both Place Finance Teams in dealing with complex customer queries, which may require sensitivity and a persuasive response where conflict may arise.
- Manage and plan own workload in accordance with local and national timescales and agreed objectives, being able to adapt where necessary when conflicting deadlines may arise.
- Any other duties as agreed with the Head of Finance
- Liaising with the internal departments of the organisation
- Oversight over accounts
- Assist in preparing the Management Accountants.
- Supporting in budgeting &variance analysis.
- Assisting in general ledger/journal entries
- Ownership of maintaining credit control functions
- Preparation of balance sheets and Bank reconciliation
- Confidence to post journal entries.

**EXPERIENCE**
- Ideally worked as an assistant account or similar with a minimum of 2 years’ experience
- Prior experience in handling sales invoices, customer queries and purchase ledger will be a definite advantage.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Ideally you will be part-qualified, working towards a recognised qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/AAT)
- Basic accounting knowledge around accruals, prepayments and reconciliations is essential.

**ESSENTIAL**
- Ability to manipulate data using tools and formulas in excel.
- IT literate including Outlook and Word.
- Excellent numeracy skills.
- Effective communication skills both written and orally - this is required for sound communication between internal departments within the organisation and to external stakeholders such as clients and suppliers.
- Able to capture, manipulate, analyse, and interpret financial and non-financial data from a range of sources.
- Ability to work in a confidential and sensitive manner.
- Attention to detail.

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Walsall, WS1 1NS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Accounting: 2 years (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Kinver Care FA

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