Due to a period of rapid growth, a well-reputed local business with a national reputation as leaders in their specialism are seeking to expand their team via the recruitment of a skilled Assistant Finance Manager.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, the successful applicant will apply their meticulous approach and accounts expertise to provide essential support with a range of financial duties.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Processing purchase invoices, ensuring they are coded and recorded on Sage
• Liaising with colleagues to resolve queries or inaccuracies in data
• Raising sales invoices and processing rechargeable expenses
• Recording bank receipts against client invoices
• Carrying out bank reconciliation
• Creating monthly board reports to show profit & loss, projected revenue and trends
• Quarterly VAT submissions
• Monitoring cashflow
• Managing deferred revenue transactions
• Spreading prepayments, journal accruals and depreciation
• Preparing project profitability reports using information generated from Sage
• Ad-hoc project work

Skills and experience required:

• AAT qualified, part-qualified in ACCA or CIMA, or qualified by experience
• Proven experience in handling company accounts
• Good working knowledge of Sage 50, MS Office, particularly Excel
• Confident communications skills, with both clients and colleagues
• Able to produce effective written work with grammatical accuracy
• Demonstrates resilience and an aptitude for working within organisations that have experienced rapid growth and change.

Hours of work:

• Part-time, 3-4 days per week (21 - 28 hours per week)

Salary and benefits:

• £29,000 pro-rata
• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)
• Private health
• Statutory pension