Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant | £ + study support | Liverpool | Permanent

Are you looking to take the next step in your finance career and gain broader accounting experience within a successful manufacturing environment?

We’re recruiting an Assistant Accountant to join an established finance team, offering a great opportunity for someone with a grounding in transactional finance who now wants to develop their month-end and management accounting experience.

You’ll work closely with the Site Finance Manager, taking responsibility for day-to-day financial processing while gradually becoming more involved in month-end reporting and accounting activities. You will be:

Supporting the day-to-day running of purchase ledger and sales ledger

Processing and reconciling cash and bank transactions

Completing bank and balance sheet reconciliations

Assisting with supplier payments and resolving invoice queries

Supporting the Site Finance Manager during month end

Preparing and posting journals

Assisting with accruals and prepayments

Supporting the preparation of monthly financial information

Investigating discrepancies and helping ensure financial information is accurate

Working with colleagues across the site to resolve finance queries

Supporting ongoing improvements to finance processes and controls

For this Assistant Accountant role, you will ideally be someone who already has some hands-on finance experience and is keen to broaden their skillset.

AAT qualified or studying towards AAT, or in the early stages of CIMA/ACCA

Experienced within an Accounts Assistant, Finance Assistant, Assistant Accountant or similar role

Comfortable working across transactional finance, including AP, AR and bank reconciliations

Keen to develop your knowledge of month-end accounting

Confident using Excel and working with financial data

Proactive, organised and willing to learn

Comfortable working in a busy, deadline-driven environment

Experience using a larger ERP system (SAP, Dynamics 365 etc) would be advantageous

Manufacturing experience is useful but not essential

You will get

£30,000 – £35,000 salary

Full study support towards your professional qualification

25 days holiday

Company pension

Healthcare

Hybrid working once probation has passed

Excellent exposure to month-end and management accounting

Opportunity to work closely with an experienced Finance Manager

Experience within a fast-paced manufacturing environment

Long-term opportunities to progress as your experience and qualification develop