Assistant Accountant

REED are Exclusively working in partnership with a leading global consultancy business with over 100 years of design and engineering expertise to recruit a Permanent, Fully REMOTE Assistant Accountant.

This is a unique opportunity for a Part Qualified ACCA / ACA / CIMA Accountant to join a UK based entity under the supervision of the Financial Controller and working alongside a team of two Financial Accountants. The main activities concern preparation of reconciling the inter-company balances, SSF management accounts, IFRS 16 lease accounting and preparing for a new company wide ERP

Please see below for further details:

Assistant Accountant

Part Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA (Study support offered towards completion)

Fully Remote working (one day a month social meeting in Worchester)

Salary (Dependant of experience £30,000 - £35,000) per annum (Perm position)

Duties:

• Review and enter exchange rates and project rates into JDE
• Completion of monthly continuity and enrichment schedules in FCCS
• Completion of forms for the Office of National Statistics
• Analysis and submission of related party transactions for parent company
• Reconciliation of intercompany balances using BlackLine
• Raising payment requests for intercompany payments
• Coding of internal bond recharges from Corporate
• Preparation of journals
• Assist with the quarterly inter-company reconciliation process and feedback to Group companies (over 80 overseas entities)
• Assisting with annual transfer pricing invoices
• Assistance with the preparation of annual corporation tax packs for 15 statutory companies
• Liaising with intercompany contacts to resolve invoicing queries and ensure timely payments
• Providing data to auditors via Deloitte Connect

Requirements:

• Part-qualified in a recognised professional accountancy qualification
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including use and set-up of Pivot tables and formulas
• Experience of an accounting software package (The company are going through a Finance Transformation Project to Oracle
• Experience of Reconciliations, Journals and Dealing with large amounts of Data (Different currencies)

Benefits

• Pension (Effective from 1st Jan 2020) :- Optional scheme available from age of 16 to 74 with no qualifying period to join. Automatic inclusion in salary exchange for NI savings. Individual gets tax relief on contributions. The Company will double the contribution that you pay. The default contribution rates are 3% employee and 6% employer contribution. You can choose to increase or decrease these rates which are a percentage of your salary.
• Life Assurance - Provided at 4 x annual earnings up to state pension age (variable dependent on date of birth). Staff can pay to increase their cover up to a maximum of 10x salary or sell to decrease their cover to a minimum level of 2x salary.
• Holidays - 25 days per annum. 8 days paid bank holidays per annum. Pro rata for part time staff or for part years worked. Staff can buy up to 15 days or sell up to 5 days holiday to suit their lifestyle.
• Income Protection - Offers you peace of mind in the form of an income in the unlikely event you are prevented from working for more than 26 weeks as a result of serious ill health or injury.
• Professional Fees - Annual subscription reimbursed for membership of a professional body relevant to your role with Atkins.
• Season Ticket Loan - All UK employees are eligible on successful completion of their probationary period.

Application Process

If you meet the requirements of the role and are interested in applying please reply to this advert, summarising why you are interested.