Assistant Management Accountant

Ben Johnson Ltd currently have an urgent requirement for an Interim Assistant Management Accountant to join our Leeds based professional services client. The fixed term will be for a period of 6 months.

The Assistant Management Accountant will work alongside and supporting the current Management Accountant, you will assist in weekly and monthly reporting which includes Management Accounts, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, cash flow, variance analysis and other ad hoc requirements.

This role would suit a part qualified Assistant Accountant (AAT, CIMA, ACCA). Previous experience in a professional services or similar environment is preferable but not essential as full support will be given to the successful candidate with a view to maximising benefit to both parties.

The ideal candidate will have good communication skills and an analytical, inquisitive mind.

Overall skills/experience required

Soft Skills

• Fast learner with ability to learn on the job
• Methodical
• Prepared to do the ground work in collecting data to enable value adding analysis
• Ability to ask the right questions of the right people to develop an understanding of the work at hand
• Proactive manner to bring fresh ideas to the table
• Inquisitive mind

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of period end procedure (Accruals and Prepayments) is essential.
• Excel (Pivots, Vlookups, Index Matching, Sumifs, Charts). Preferable
• Working knowledge of Word and PowerPoint. Preferable
• Good IT skills (Comfortable running reports and writing simple reports in Proclaim - Programming skills not required)

We are looking for an Assistant Accountant to start the role in early-mid August.