Assistant Accountant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and ambitious Assistant Accountant to join a well-established and growing business based in Liverpool. Reporting to the Financial Controller and working closely with the Management Accountant, you will play a key role in supporting financial reporting, inventory accounting and month-end processes within a small, collaborative finance team.

Client Details

Our client is a well-established and successful UK business with a strong reputation for quality, operational excellence and long-term growth. With a diverse product portfolio and a collaborative culture, the organisation continues to invest in its people, systems and processes to support future expansion. The finance team plays a key role in driving performance and decision-making across the business, providing employees with excellent exposure to both financial and management accounting activities.

This is an opportunity to join a supportive and close-knit finance function where you will work alongside experienced professionals, gain broad commercial exposure and contribute to a variety of accounting, reporting and process improvement initiatives. The business offers a stable environment, genuine career development opportunities and support for ongoing professional qualifications.

Description

This is a varied and hands-on role where you'll work closely with the Financial Controller and Management Accountant, gaining exposure to a broad range of financial and management accounting activities.

A significant part of your role will focus on inventory and cost accounting, helping to ensure stock movements are accurately reflected within the accounts. You'll investigate discrepancies, reconcile stock balances, analyse stock adjustments and work with colleagues across the business to understand the story behind the numbers. This will give you real visibility across operations and commercial activities, rather than being purely desk-based accounting.

Alongside this, you'll be heavily involved in the month-end close process, preparing journals, balance sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting. You'll have the opportunity to take ownership of key balance sheet areas, helping to identify issues, resolve variances and continually improve processes.

You'll also support the wider finance team with management reporting and analysis, contributing to gross margin reporting, cost of sales analysis and performance reporting that helps drive business decisions. This is a role where you'll be encouraged to question numbers, identify trends and provide meaningful insight, rather than simply processing transactions.

Working within a small and collaborative finance team means you'll gain exposure to a variety of projects and initiatives, including supporting external audits, assisting with system and process improvements, and helping to strengthen financial controls across the business.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their management accounting skills, take on increasing responsibility and gain genuine commercial exposure while continuing their professional accounting studies. Key Responsibilities

Own and perform regular stock and inventory reconciliations, investigating discrepancies and working with stakeholders to understand and resolve variances.

Support the accounting for stock movements, adjustments, write-offs and transfers, ensuring transactions are accurately reflected within the ledger.

Assist with month-end and year-end close activities, including journal preparation, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations.

Take responsibility for assigned balance sheet accounts, ensuring balances are accurate, supported and fully reconciled.

Contribute to gross profit, margin and cost of sales analysis, helping to explain business performance and key trends.

Support the preparation of management information and financial reporting packs for senior stakeholders.

Prepare schedules and supporting documentation for auditors and other external parties.

Work alongside colleagues across finance and operations to improve controls, reporting accuracy and process efficiency.

Support ongoing finance system and ERP improvement projects.

Identify opportunities to streamline processes and enhance the quality of reporting across the finance function.

Profile

We are looking for someone who is

Part-qualified ACCA or CIMA (or actively studying towards qualification).

Experienced in an Assistant Accountant, Management Accountant, Cost Accountant or similar finance role.

Skilled in balance sheet reconciliations and month-end accounting.

Strong analytically with excellent attention to detail.

Confident working with large volumes of financial data.

Proficient in Excel and financial systems.

Able to communicate effectively with stakeholders across the business.

Proactive, organised and eager to develop professionally.

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be advantageous

Inventory or stock accounting.

Cost accounting.

Product-based, retail, distribution or manufacturing environments.

Audit support.

Variance analysis and management reporting.

ERP systems.

Job Offer

Competitive salary along with quarterly bonus

Opportunity to develop within a growing finance team.

Broad exposure across financial and management accounting.

Study support for ACCA/CIMA (where applicable).

Collaborative and supportive working environment.

Clear career progression opportunities.