Assistant Accountant

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Come and join us as a customer focused and results driven Assistant Accountant and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.

The Role:

As an Assistant Accountant, you will assist in management accounts, ensuring correct allocation of costs, and providing detailed financial analysis when needed. This Assistant Accountant role is a superb chance to join a team with a long track record of developing, training, and promoting internally

Key Responsibilities

• Preparation and posting of pre and post-month-end overhead journals
• Analyse financial data in order to allocate out the relevant charges received and investigate any variances between actual costs and budgets
• Report on monthly charges and overhead costs to internal management in order to inform business decisions
• Preparing and assisting with FA month-end journals and FA additions from WIP
• Investigate and resolve between invoices received and allocation of costs to branches
• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations
• Recommend new processes and procedures where appropriate in order to increase efficiency and accuracy

This role offers the opportunity of flexibility, working from home but you should be within commutable distance of our newly refurbished offices in Crick, Northamptonshire to attend meetings as required

You:

You’ll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with an innovative and agile approach to problem-solving. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Finance team and you’ll thrive on delivering excellent financial analytics and reports

Skills and competencies

• Experience of working within a financial team
• AAT qualified or similar
• A desire to undertake a professional qualification (think ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
• Clear and concise knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets
• High level of attention to detail
• Sound knowledge of accounting principles

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

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We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.