Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant | £  study support | Liverpool | Temporary to Permanent Are you looking to take the next step in your finance career and gain broader accounting experience within a successful manufacturing environment? We’re recruiting an Assistant Accountant to join an established finance team, offering a great opportunity for someone with a grounding in transactional finance who now wants to develop their month-end and management accounting experience.

You’ll work closely with the Site Finance Manager, taking responsibility for day-to-day financial processing while gradually becoming more involved in month-end reporting and accounting activities.

You will be:

Supporting the day-to-day running of purchase ledger and sales ledger Processing and reconciling cash and bank transactions Completing bank and balance sheet reconciliations Assisting with supplier payments and resolving invoice queries Supporting the Site Finance Manager during month end Preparing and posting journals Assisting with accruals and prepayments Supporting the preparation of monthly financial information Investigating discrepancies and helping ensure financial information is accurate Working with colleagues across the site to resolve finance queries Supporting ongoing improvements to finance processes and controls For this Assistant Accountant role, you will ideally be someone who already has some hands-on finance experience and is keen to broaden their skillset.

AAT qualified or studying towards AAT, or in the early stages of CIMA/ACCA Experienced within an Accounts Assistant, Finance Assistant, Assistant Accountant or similar role Comfortable working across transactional finance, including AP, AR and bank reconciliations Keen to develop your knowledge of month-end accounting Confident using Excel and working with financial data Proactive, organised and willing to learn Comfortable working in a busy, deadline-driven environment Experience using a larger ERP system (SAP, Dynamics 365 etc) would be advantageous Manufacturing experience is useful but not essential You will get: £30,000 – £36,000 salary Temporary to permanent opportunity Full study support towards your professional qualification when contract moved to perm 25 days holiday Company pension Healthcare Hybrid working Excellent exposure to month-end and management accounting Opportunity to work closely with an experienced Finance Manager

Experience with in a fast-paced manufacturing environment Long-term opportunities to progress as your experience and qualification develop