Assistant Management Accountant

Role

Title:

Assistant Management Accountant

Location: Glasgow Head Office

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours / Monday – Friday (1 day Hybrid)

Salary
: 30,296.45 per annum

Job Purpose:

To support management accountant and Finance Manager in the production of monthly accounts and to reconcile and maintain clean balance sheet reconciliations.

Key Accountabilities:

• Work closely with management accountant and senior management accountant to ensure department deadlines and targets are met.
• Responsible for preparing and posting month end journals to tight deadlines
• Posting and reconciling accruals & prepayments
• Maintain Fixed asset register & post depreciation
• Month end recoding of P & L transactions
• Checking costs & preparing sections of management accounts
• Reconciling balance sheet accounts
• Reconcile and control WIP Balance sheet accounts
• Ensuring WIP is submitted to operational managers/ customers for approval and billing
• Respond to requests for information and analysis from operations colleagues
• Assist with preparation of audit files and assist external auditors during fieldwork

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience of working in a finance department preferred but not essential but should demonstrate a desire to work in a finance department. May be working towards a professional qualification (E.g ACCA, AAT, CIMA) or be qualified at Degree, HNC or HND level or equivalent.
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Good interpersonal skills
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel