Assistant Accountant

Location: Bristol (Hybrid Working)

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Working Pattern: Tuesday-Thursday in the office, Monday & Friday from home

About You

The ideal candidate will be proactive, organised, and keen to learn. You will enjoy working in a fluid role where responsibilities can evolve over time.

The Company

Our client is a well-established Bristol-based business operating with a turnover of £26 million. They offer a stable and supportive working environment, a collaborative finance team, and the opportunity to gain broad exposure across multiple areas of finance within a growing organisation.

The Role

This is a broad and hands-on Assistant Accountant opportunity within a supportive finance team. The role is ideal for someone who enjoys variety, wants exposure to management accounts, and is keen to develop their technical accounting skills in a dynamic environment.

The successful candidate will support the day-to-day finance function while also getting involved in process improvements, reporting, and management accounting activities. The more responsibility you take on, the more exposure you will gain to higher-level finance work.

There is also opportunity to gain exposure to stock accounting and work-in-progress processes through the wider group operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Posting purchase and sales invoices
• Processing customer invoices and purchasing invoices
• Performing bank reconciliations
• Managing company credit card reconciliations
• Assisting with management accounts preparation
• Supporting finance systems and process improvements
• Assisting with work-in-progress accounting
• Using Excel regularly for reporting and analysis
• Supporting the wider finance team with ad hoc duties as required

Requirements

• Previous experience in an Assistant Accountant or Finance Assistant position
• Strong Excel skills, including VLOOKUPs
• Confident using finance systems and learning new technology quickly
• Excellent attention to detail
• Proactive and adaptable approach
• Strong communication skills and willingness to support the wider team

Desirable

• Experience using Xledger
• Manufacturing or stock-based industry experience
• Experience supporting management accounts
• Exposure to work-in-progress accounting

Benefits & Package

• Study support (AAT, ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• On-site parking
• Standard pension scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement

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