Assistant Accountant | £30,000-36,000 + study support | Liverpool | Temporary to 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 – £36,000 salary
• Temporary to permanent opportunity
• Full study support towards your professional qualification when contract moved to perm
• 25 days holiday
• Company pension
• Healthcare
• Hybrid working
• 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