Job Description

The tasks will include providing support across various roles such as:

• Preparation of various calculations which feed into the financial statements including income work in progress and fee deficit, exporting from Finance Force systems and manipulating in MS Excel using Vlookups and Pivot-tables
• Preparation of monthly reconciliations (including bank and payroll data) and resolution of any variances
• Preparation of quarterly VAT returns
• Investigation and resolution into trial balance review comments
• Data quality tasks and exception report checks 
• Preparing and providing information to internal and external auditors
• Processing invoices and credit notes and supporting the team to prepare pay runs files for BACS payments up to 100 invoices
• Auditing and posting employee expenses
• Setting up new suppliers and updating supplier details
• Raise journals requested by frontline colleagues
• Reviewing Finance inbox and dealing with queries in a professional, courteous and prompt manner
• Ad-hoc tasks assigned by line manager

The financial management team is responsible for the preparations of the strategy budget, estimate, annual forecasts and monthly management accounts.

Tasks will include providing support across various roles such as:

• Using Excel and Finance Force, preparation of reports and calculations which feed into the management accounts – including staff timecards & project budgets.
• Preparation of forecasts including income, VAT, depreciation, expenditure and corporation tax
• Investigation of significant month on month variances in forecasts using MS Excel and producing commentary on investigations and reasonings
• Assisting with the preparation of the budgeting and planning process
• Preparing and providing information to the strategy team for the Strategy Brief hearing.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

This role would suit an Assistant Accountant/Assistant Management Accountant with proven experience in Month/Year End close, you need to be naturally supportive and happy to provide support across all aspects of the duties.