The Company
Assistant Accountant - Study Support - Career Development - Flexible Hours
We are delighted to be supporting a growing organisation in their search for an Assistant Accountant. This is a newly created Assistant Accountant role which will support the Management Accountant directly.
The role
The Assistant Accountant duties will include:
- Support the Management Accountant to ensure all transactions are processed in a timely manner.
- Ensure the transactional finance team meets strict month/year end deadlines.
- Work with the transactional team to ensure that all month end reconciliations are completed and available for the Management Accountant to review.
- Assist the Management Accountant with the team workflow.
- Overseeing direct reports and providing support to the wider team as and when necessary.
- Liaise with the Payroll Bureau on fortnightly and monthly pay runs, review draft reports completing spot checks and approve for submission to payment.
- Build and develop relationships throughout the business.
- Ad hoc duties as requested.
The Person
The requirements for the Assistant Accountant role are:
- Experience in a similar role
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, as well as the ability to nurture and maintain positive working relationships at all levels.
- Accounting knowledge, working towards an accounting qualification if not already held.
- Experience working with Xero would be helpful, but not essential.
- Strong Excel skills