Trainee Accountant

This is a great opportunity for someone who is at the early stages of their career in finance, and is seeking a role which will develop their knowledge and experience.
- Offering lots of training and support, study support for AAT, CIMA or ACCA, progression to Management Accountant and a competitive salary dependent upon experience.

**Client Details**

Our client is a Group of companies.

**Description**

You will be reporting into the Group Finance Manager and will be working as part of a team of 4 in finance. Once you have received all of the necessary training and support, your duties will include, but will not be limited to:

- Supporting with the production of monthly management accounts
- Journals, accruals and prepayments
- Supporting with quarterly and year end audits
- Analysing financial data and producing reports
- Supporting with VAT returns
- Bank reconciliations
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Credit control and sales ledger - dealing with invoice queries, chasing outstanding debt, reviewing credit limits, setting up new customers, performing credit checks, ensuring monthly cashflow targets are achieved and managing the debtors' ledger
- Purchase ledger - processing purchase invoices, supplier payments runs, raising purchase orders and managing the creditors' ledger

**Profile**
- must have some experience of working in finance or be studying an accounting qualification
- must have experience of using Excel and be able to create basic formulas

**Job Offer**

This is a permanent opportunity that is offering:

- lots of training and support
- progression to Management Accountant in the future
- full study support for CIMA, ACCA or AAT, if desired
- a salary between £18,000 and £24,000, dependent upon experience
- 23 days holidays, plus your birthday and bank holidays
- life insurance
- the hours of 8:30-17:00, but these hours could potentially be varied
- wholly office based role