Assistant Accountant
- Recruiter
- TopCashback
- Location
- Staffordshire, UK
- Salary
- £20000 - £24000/annum plus enhanced benefits
- Posted
- 14 Oct 2020
- Closes
- 27 Oct 2020
- Ref
- 1760784239
- Job role
- Assistant accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Qualified accountant
Assistant Accountant
Based: Stafford
Salary - Up to £24,000
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 9.00am - 5.30pm
About Us
TopCashback is the World's most generous cashback company. Having been established in the UK in 2005, we are now the UK market leaders in cashback and still growing rapidly. TopCashback has previously featured as one of the fastest growing private companies in the UK for 3 consecutive years by the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 and has been awarded Cashback Site of the year 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020.
Our worldwide membership is in excess of 20 million and growing. TopCashback is an ethical company and lives by the motto "do as you would be done by". We extend this way of operating to all of our members, merchants and partners as one of our core values.
The Role
We are currently looking for a full-time Assistant Accountant to join our small, friendly yet busy Finance team.
This is an exciting new role within a growing business. You will provide support to the Finance team, particularly assisting the Company Accountant and Senior Assistant Accountant with management accounts preparation and reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, maintenance of supporting accounting schedules, and other finance-related tasks.
Therefore, Management accounts preparation and analysis skills are essential for this position, as well as advanced Excel skills.
You will have similar experience in a finance role from practice or industry, along with good communication skills and a flexible 'can do' attitude. Study support will be available to the right candidate as part of your professional development.
Duties include but not limited to:
* Assist with monthly management accounts preparation and analysis
* Reconciliation of balance sheets, including intercompany reconciling
* Generating monthly and adhoc reports for management
* Preparation and posting of journals to Sage
* Dealing with HMRC and National Statistics submissions
* Any other finance or admin duties and responsibilities as required, including covering for holidays
The ideal candidate:
* Have at least 2 years experience, and hopefully studying (AAT, ACCA, CIMA)
* Can work on their own initiative, and be organised
* Have excellent attention to detail and able to meet deadlines
* Used to dealing with foreign currency and intercompany transactions
* Is analytical, methodical and looks to improve functions and procedures
* Experience using an accounts package (ideally Sage) coupled with good Excel skills
* Have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate across all levels of the business
Benefits:
* 23 days Holiday including your Birthday off & 2 Duvet days (Plus loyalty holidays & ability to purchase extra holiday)
* We would normally state the following - "Great working environment with relaxed dress code, Table Tennis Tables, Pool Table, X-box room" But only when we are back in the office. In the meantime we can only offer you a great job in a great and growing company and the table tennis will have to wait a while...
* Life Insurance, Income protection, health cash plan and enhanced maternity/paternity
* Good transport links, free parking plus support for public transport users
* Cycle to Work schemes offered
Due to current Covid restrictions, on-boarding the successful candidate will need to be done 'virtually'. However we have adapted well to this and have all our employees working safely from home across the globe, We are in a very strong financially secure position - being a profitable owner managed business with no debt - that makes us extremely confident to continue to recruit and expand our operations in all our markets even at this time.
At TopCashback, since we began, we have been committed to building a fair, diverse and inclusive company. We believe that diversity and nurturing a culture where we can all be our true selves at work, makes us stronger as a business. We celebrate differences and foster a fair and equal environment for us all to flourish in. After all, we spend most of our time together.
With fairness at heart, we're committed to being an equal opportunity employer regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, nationality, age or similar. Whoever you are, whatever walk of life you are from, we'll welcome you to our TopCashback family
Based: Stafford
Salary - Up to £24,000
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 9.00am - 5.30pm
About Us
TopCashback is the World's most generous cashback company. Having been established in the UK in 2005, we are now the UK market leaders in cashback and still growing rapidly. TopCashback has previously featured as one of the fastest growing private companies in the UK for 3 consecutive years by the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 and has been awarded Cashback Site of the year 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020.
Our worldwide membership is in excess of 20 million and growing. TopCashback is an ethical company and lives by the motto "do as you would be done by". We extend this way of operating to all of our members, merchants and partners as one of our core values.
The Role
We are currently looking for a full-time Assistant Accountant to join our small, friendly yet busy Finance team.
This is an exciting new role within a growing business. You will provide support to the Finance team, particularly assisting the Company Accountant and Senior Assistant Accountant with management accounts preparation and reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, maintenance of supporting accounting schedules, and other finance-related tasks.
Therefore, Management accounts preparation and analysis skills are essential for this position, as well as advanced Excel skills.
You will have similar experience in a finance role from practice or industry, along with good communication skills and a flexible 'can do' attitude. Study support will be available to the right candidate as part of your professional development.
Duties include but not limited to:
* Assist with monthly management accounts preparation and analysis
* Reconciliation of balance sheets, including intercompany reconciling
* Generating monthly and adhoc reports for management
* Preparation and posting of journals to Sage
* Dealing with HMRC and National Statistics submissions
* Any other finance or admin duties and responsibilities as required, including covering for holidays
The ideal candidate:
* Have at least 2 years experience, and hopefully studying (AAT, ACCA, CIMA)
* Can work on their own initiative, and be organised
* Have excellent attention to detail and able to meet deadlines
* Used to dealing with foreign currency and intercompany transactions
* Is analytical, methodical and looks to improve functions and procedures
* Experience using an accounts package (ideally Sage) coupled with good Excel skills
* Have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate across all levels of the business
Benefits:
* 23 days Holiday including your Birthday off & 2 Duvet days (Plus loyalty holidays & ability to purchase extra holiday)
* We would normally state the following - "Great working environment with relaxed dress code, Table Tennis Tables, Pool Table, X-box room" But only when we are back in the office. In the meantime we can only offer you a great job in a great and growing company and the table tennis will have to wait a while...
* Life Insurance, Income protection, health cash plan and enhanced maternity/paternity
* Good transport links, free parking plus support for public transport users
* Cycle to Work schemes offered
Due to current Covid restrictions, on-boarding the successful candidate will need to be done 'virtually'. However we have adapted well to this and have all our employees working safely from home across the globe, We are in a very strong financially secure position - being a profitable owner managed business with no debt - that makes us extremely confident to continue to recruit and expand our operations in all our markets even at this time.
At TopCashback, since we began, we have been committed to building a fair, diverse and inclusive company. We believe that diversity and nurturing a culture where we can all be our true selves at work, makes us stronger as a business. We celebrate differences and foster a fair and equal environment for us all to flourish in. After all, we spend most of our time together.
With fairness at heart, we're committed to being an equal opportunity employer regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, nationality, age or similar. Whoever you are, whatever walk of life you are from, we'll welcome you to our TopCashback family