Assistant Accountant
- Recruiter
- SOLOS Consultants Ltd
- Location
- UK, UK
- Salary
- £30507/annum
- Posted
- 22 Jun 2019
- Closes
- 20 Jul 2019
- Ref
- 1187743261
- Job role
- Accountant, Assistant accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
Our client is urgently recrutiing for an Assistant Accountant to join a well established organisation based in Bristol.
This is a 2 month contract with the view to going temp to perm for the right candidate.
Our new Assistant Accountant will join our Finance and Procurement team and help them deliver effective and efficient finance support to the West of England Combined Authority.
The role sits within a small and relatively new team and the post holder will play a key role, helping to provide financial advice, information, reports and analysis and maintain systems and processes.
The Assistant Accountant will resolve queries from internal and external audits and provide financial information to the Head of Finance and Procurement and to Management Accountants. The role also involves completing statistical and statutory returns, working on grant claims and providing information for the Authority’s Committee reports.
The post holder will be required to complete on-the-job training to gain competencies in one or more of the following specialist areas;
* To play an active role in helping to establish processes in our newly formed Treasury Management function, including undertaking day-to-day Treasury Management activities under the supervision of the Management Accountant and in compliance with the Treasury Management Strategy.
* To be the first point of contact for all systems related queries from managers and staff, providing a system administration service to the Finance Team and Budget Managers.
* The provision of VAT advice and support to other teams , including assisting and advising on VAT matters, the submission of our VAT returns and for calculating and monitoring our Partial Exemption position.
* Acting as a technical accounting lead, assisting the Head of Finance and Management Accountants in the production of the Statement of Accounts, applying relevant accounting standards and undertaking closedown processes and tasks.
Please note candidates must be a qualified accountant or a part-qualified accountant actively studying at the final level (CCAB/CIMA).
Please note whilst the role is on a contract you will be paid £16ph.
£30507 is the permanent salary
This is a 2 month contract with the view to going temp to perm for the right candidate.
Our new Assistant Accountant will join our Finance and Procurement team and help them deliver effective and efficient finance support to the West of England Combined Authority.
The role sits within a small and relatively new team and the post holder will play a key role, helping to provide financial advice, information, reports and analysis and maintain systems and processes.
The Assistant Accountant will resolve queries from internal and external audits and provide financial information to the Head of Finance and Procurement and to Management Accountants. The role also involves completing statistical and statutory returns, working on grant claims and providing information for the Authority’s Committee reports.
The post holder will be required to complete on-the-job training to gain competencies in one or more of the following specialist areas;
* To play an active role in helping to establish processes in our newly formed Treasury Management function, including undertaking day-to-day Treasury Management activities under the supervision of the Management Accountant and in compliance with the Treasury Management Strategy.
* To be the first point of contact for all systems related queries from managers and staff, providing a system administration service to the Finance Team and Budget Managers.
* The provision of VAT advice and support to other teams , including assisting and advising on VAT matters, the submission of our VAT returns and for calculating and monitoring our Partial Exemption position.
* Acting as a technical accounting lead, assisting the Head of Finance and Management Accountants in the production of the Statement of Accounts, applying relevant accounting standards and undertaking closedown processes and tasks.
Please note candidates must be a qualified accountant or a part-qualified accountant actively studying at the final level (CCAB/CIMA).
Please note whilst the role is on a contract you will be paid £16ph.
£30507 is the permanent salary
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