I am excited to be recruiting for a Trainee Accountant role for a 16 month contract. This is an exciting position to join a business that's willing to support and train you up with the following duties:
- Assist the Head of Finance in the preparation of the Management Accounts
- Prepare and post month end journals
- Review and check month end stock quantities and values, before preparing and posting the stock journals
- Prepare nominal ledger variance analysis as required, correcting mis-postings as appropriate
- Prepare month end sales analysis and compare to forecast
- Prepare month end flash profit results for the Gateshead and Powys sites
- Assist the Head of Finance in the preparation of the year-end Accounts, preparing supporting schedules for the auditors as required.
- Responsible for preparing the Coventry site sales KPIs
- Ensure the Sage Sales Price List is accurately updated and correct
- Micro manage ad hoc sales accounts, raising Purchase 0rders, ensuring sales are properly recorded and reconciled difference between despatched and invoiced, booking goods in.
- Posting company credit card and petty cash spend to nominal ledger ensure reconciles
- Holiday/sickness cover for the Sales Ledger and Purchase ledger administrators
- Raising despatch notes as required
- Daily update of the cashflow forecast for actuals on the ID bank and current account
- Assist the Head of Finance in the preparation of the quarter cashflow forecast
- Ensure that cash transactions are correctly recorded and bank reconciliations are performed on a weekly basis (Holiday cover only)
- Prepare analysis for Transport and other spend as required
- Setting up new starters on clocking system
- Recording holidays (staff and hourly Cov) on clocking system
- Assist the Head of Finance as required with adhoc tasks requiring excel spreadsheet skills
- Provide support for the Head of Purchasing, assisting with analysis or PO raising as required
In order to be considered for this position, you must possess the following requirements:
- Highly IT literate with very strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Excellent knowledge of Sage Accounting
- 2 years or more experience working within a highly disciplined Finance Department with robust systems of control
- AAT qualified