Accountant (12 month contract)

Accountant (Fixed-Term Contract)

About the Role

This is an opportunity for an experienced Accountant to join an exciting and growing SME organisation, operating across multiple business areas with an international presence.

The role offers genuine breadth and variety, providing exposure to financial accounting, treasury, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and multi-currency operations across several legal entities. As the organisation continues to expand, there will be opportunities to contribute to finance transformation projects, process improvements and international growth initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepayments / Accruals
• Trial balance review
• P/L preparation and analysis
• Profitability analysis
• Management reporting
• Budget preparation
• Cash Flow actual and forecast
• Manage the sales ledger, including raising customer invoices and credit control.
• Process supplier invoices and maintain the purchase ledger.
• Prepare and process multi-currency bank payments (GBP, EUR and USD).
• Perform bank reconciliations
• Process employee expenses and company credit card transactions
• Record and reconcile intercompany transactions across multiple entities.
• Prepare quarterly VAT returns.
• Manage bookkeeping and financial reporting for overseas operations, liaising with external accountants where required.

Experience & Qualifications

• Suitable candidates will have previous experience gained from a similar role within an SME business. Ideally you will be a minimum of AAT qualified, however, qualified by experience (QBE) will be considered.

In return the company are offering, a competitive salary and benefits package, including 25 days holiday, life insurance and PMI. This is initially a 1 year fixed term contract, however there is good potential for it to become a permanent role.

If you have the relevant experience, then apply today!

Please note, due to the expected high volume of applicants, only suitable candidates will be contacted.