Accountant

Assistant Accountant

£33,000 - £37,000 Annually

Glasgow

Full Time, Hybrid

Reporting to Head of Department

Reed is excited to be assisting a globally recognised brand in recruiting an experienced Assistant Accountant.

This main scope of the role will be to assist the Head of Department in maintaining financial controls in relation to transactions across a number of multi-region entities.

As one of the best companies to work for in Glasgow, this role offers a highly competitive salary, a hybrid working model, and fantastic opportunity for development and progression. There is also a brilliant benefits package including 34 days annual leave, a 6% employer pension contribution, study support, private healthcare, and much more!

The main responsibilities of this role are:

• Carrying out daily/monthly reconciliations
• Analysing daily reports to ensure backup of previous day’s transactions are reflected correctly in ledgers
• Ensuring the general ledger reconciles to monthly management accounts
• Performing regular balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and explaining any variances
• Reconciling sales and payments between financial systems across multiple territories
• Producing monthly and quarterly profit share statements and payments
• Assisting in annual audit
• Submitting VAT returns
• Assisting with ad-hoc projects guided by director of finance

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• Experience in a similar role involving a large balance sheet and high-volume of transactions
• Experience in large organisations with detailed processes and complex integrated systems
• To ideally be part qualified/working towards completion e.g., ACCA, CIMA, ICAS
• Strong Excel and systems skills
• Effective planning and workload scheduling
• Strong attention to detail

The benefits that this opportunity offers are:

• Hybrid working
• 34 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays)
• Up to 6% matched employer pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Enhanced parental leave
• Study support packages available
• Wellness programmes
• Employee assistant programmes

This opportunity would be perfect for someone part-qualified (for which study support can be provided) to join a massive global company and assist in maintaining financial controls over a vital part of income and performance. Part qualification is not essential, so if you have relevant experience, please do still apply.

If this sounds like the role for you, then please apply here with your CV.

Good luck!

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