Accounts Assistant

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Rugby
Salary
Competitive
Posted
25 Jun 2022
Closes
23 Jul 2022
Sectors
Accountancy
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Chase the experience, not the money! But why not do both as our new Accounts Assistant?
At City Plumbing, we have a long history of providing our Accounts Assistants with funding and incentives to complete their Finance qualifications, with countless examples of Accounts Assistants progressing into more Senior roles within our Finance team.
This could be YOU as our latest Accounts Assistant! You will help assist in management accounts, ensure correct allocation of costs, and provide detailed financial analysis when needed.
This is a superb chance to join a team with a long track record of developing, training, and promoting internally.

Interested? Then read on to find out more!
The Role:
It is an exciting time here at City Plumbing. We have recently become a stand-alone business and are making real strides in creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity.

Within this role you'll assist in managing accounts, processing analytical financial data to ensure correct allocation of costs is made to the relevant costs centre, and providing financial analysis when required.

Areas of focus:

Preparation and posting of pre and post-month-end overhead journals.

Analyse financial data in order to allocate out the relevant charges received and investigate any variances between actual costs and budgets.

Report on monthly charges and overhead costs to internal management in order to inform business decisions.

Preparing and assisting with FA month-end journals and FA additions from WIP.

Investigate and resolve between invoices received and allocation of costs to branches.

Preparing balance sheet reconciliations.

Recommend new processes and procedures where appropriate in order to increase efficiency and accuracy.
This is a hybrid-based opportunity with true flexibility to work from home, but you should be within commutable distance of our newly refurbished offices in Crick, Northamptonshire.

This means you could be based in Corby, Coventry, Hinckley, Kettering, Leamington Spa, Leicester, Loughborough, Lutterworth, Market Harborough, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Northampton, Nuneaton, Oundle, Peterborough, Rugby, Rushden, Tamworth, Wellingborough, as well as Crick itself.

You:
You'll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with an innovative and agile approach to problem-solving. You'll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Finance team and you'll thrive on delivering excellent financial analytics and reports.
Required skills and competencies:

Experience of working within a financial team.

AAT qualified or similar.

A desire to undertake a professional qualification (think ACCA/CIMA/ACA).

Clear and concise knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets.

High level of attention to detail.

Sound knowledge of accounting principles.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Accounts Assistant, Accounts Executive, Assistant Accountant, Financial Analyst, Finance Assistant, Finance, ACCA, CIMA, ACA, AAT, Renewables, Sustainability, Construction, Building Products.

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career!

We're proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we're super excited about our future! We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits package & cultural environment include;

Discount platform including savings and cash back at numerous retailers

Savings on driving lessons, phone bills, gym memberships as well as further benefits

Life assurance

Bonus

Family feel, extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more

Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, let's be there for each other

Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development

Financial education & loans

Flexible working options

Striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self

And more!

We're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don't want you to 'fit' our culture, we want you to enrich it.

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