Assistant Accountant

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Come and join us as a customer-focused and results-driven Assistant Accountant and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.

The Role

As an Assistant Accountant, you will assist in management accounts, ensuring correct allocation of costs, and providing detailed financial analysis when needed. This role offers a superb opportunity to join a team with a long track record of developing, training, and promoting internally.

Key Responsibilities

• Preparation and posting of pre- and post-month-end overhead journals
• Analyze financial data to allocate relevant charges and investigate variances between actual costs and budgets
• Report on monthly charges and overhead costs to management to inform business decisions
• Assist with FA month-end journals and FA additions from WIP
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies between received invoices and cost allocations to branches
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations
• Recommend process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy

This role offers flexibility, including working from home, but you should be within a commutable distance of our offices in Crick, Northamptonshire, to attend meetings as required.

You

You will embody our Customer First ethos, approaching problems with innovation and agility. You will enjoy collaborating with the wider Finance team and thrive on delivering excellent financial analytics and reports.

Skills And Competencies

• Experience working within a financial team
• AAT qualified or similar
• A desire to undertake professional qualifications (e.g., ACCA, CIMA, ACA)
• Proficient in Excel or Google Sheets
• High attention to detail
• Sound knowledge of accounting principles

About Us

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need. We are proud of our reputation for quality and are excited about our future. We prioritize our colleagues\’ success, happiness, and recognition, providing tools and support for career growth.

Benefits Package and Culture

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings, and cashback at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy (maternity, paternity, additional leave, etc.)
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme
• Comprehensive induction, growth opportunities, and development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• An inclusive environment where everyone can be their true self
• And more!

#BelongWithUs

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity. Bring your whole self to work, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. We want you to enrich our culture.

We are committed to best recruitment practices and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will be conducted after the offer acceptance.

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