Please note, this role is hybrid, based at our offices in Bordon x3 -4 days per week.

Overview:A varied accounting role, supporting the Head of Accounting and Management Accountants with the monthly reporting process for several varied business units. This is a hands-on role, enabling the jobholder to get involved with many aspects of accounting and forecasting.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Head of Accounting and Management Accountants with the monthly reporting process for one or more business units.
• Ensuring all reporting is value-adding, of a high quality, accurate, and produced to agreed timescales.
• General ledger postings to SAP ensuring allocation to correct GL codes, cost centres and projects.
• Ensuring income and costs are accounted for in the correct accounting period, including identifying prepayments and accruals.
• Preparing reconciliations of general ledger and intercompany accounts, proactively identifying and resolving accounting issues, following up exceptions and ensuring accurate and up to date SAP ledgers.
• Conducting expenditure analysis and control, including supporting Management Accountants with feedback to cost centre managers, as required.
• Supporting cash and treasury reporting to Group.
• Assisting with and developing improvements to process efficiency, proactively automating activities.
• Gaining an understanding of main profit drivers in each business.
• Preparing VAT returns.
• Preparing corporations tax analysis for external advisors.
• Supporting external and internal audit processes.
• Ad hoc other projects as required.

Skills:

• Part Qualified Accountant.
• Positive "can do" attitude and hunger for knowledge/experience.
• Ability to work though new accounting scenarios referring back to first principles of double entry.
• Strong reconciliation skills.
• Strong excel, data manipulation and reporting skills.
• Good communication (both oral and written).
• Able to juggle tasks and priorities within a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to be proactive and use initiative.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Good time management and organisational skills - ensuring deadlines are met and to the required standard.
• Applies an analytical approach to problem solving.

The potential for the opportunity for development into a Management Accountant role on gaining appropriate experience and full Accounting qualification (e.g. AAT, CIMA, ACCA, ACA).