Are you an aspiring or current Assistant Accountant who is tired of the daily grind? Would you like 38 days of holiday allowance in a role with flexible working? How about a pension scheme with a contribution of over 20%? If this sounds like the role for you then please read on!
Robertson Bell are delighted to be partnering with a Birmingham-based education organisation on the recruitment of a permanent Assistant Accountant. This is an excellent opportunity to get involved with a recently restructured team and put your stamp on an already well established and highly regarded organisation.
The main duties of this role will be:
- Creating reports and analysis on a monthly basis regarding both the current and forecasted financial position of key budget holders
- Assisting the Finance Manager with annual planning
- Preparing quarterly VAT returns
- Handling high volumes of bank reconciliations daily
- Working in conjunction with the AP and AR teams to ensure cash is posted correctly
- Managing the preparation and posting of month end journals as well as accruals, generally overseeing the month end processes
- Completing control accounts for review by the Finance Manager
This position will join a small team within a wider finance function, offering the opportunity for personal development as well as salary increases and even more holiday as you progress. This role will suit someone who is a strong analytical thinker and possesses a solid range of knowledge in management accounting.
Successful applicants will be:
- Educated to a good standard, particularly with English and Maths
- Qualified to at least AAT level 4
- Experienced in working in a similar role (min. 3 years)
- Proficient in the use of technology, especially Excel
- An excellent communicator, able to converse with colleagues and clients at all levels
If you're interested in joining a progressive, forward thinking and modern organisation, please do not hesitate to apply below.
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Department: Funded Programmes
Contract Duration: Until 31st March 2021
Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.
As an Assistant Account Officer, you’ll be vital in helping our team of account managers and officers support a large network of local Citizens Advice on the Help to Claim programme. Account Managers mainly help manage relationships, resolve issues and track and monitor local Citizens Advice performance. You’ll be able to support this important work and in turn make sure that our clients get good quality help and support when they need.
In this role you’ll be giving support to the account management team. You’ll help prepare reports and documents and check everything is in order - keeping the team working efficiently. This is a role that can have a real impact on the work that we do.
Our roles are open to discussion about flexible working, which may include arrangements such as part-time working, formalised flexitime, fixed (non-standard) working hours, working from home and job-sharing.
Flexible working - while our teams are office based, it's fine to work from home regularly, and we welcome discussions about working part-time.
Ranked by Indeed as a top 10 non-profit employer in the UK (December 2018)
We welcome applications from Local Citizens Advice staff and are open to arranging secondments.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.
We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for a motivated and talented financial professional to join our Finance team as a Management Accountant. The role is responsible for efficiently and effectively managing a variety of financial reports on behalf of the Finance department. You will also handle a number of financial processes which will work cross-departmentally, supporting the wider Ambition Institute Team with their understanding of the role of finance across the organisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop financial process and reporting within the team and take ownership of financial knowledge across the wider organization through business partnering.
Based in one of our three UK offices (London, Birmingham or Manchester), you’ll proactively ensure that Ambition Institute is financially compliant across all processes, support on financial system projects, and ensure that all monthly processes, such as payroll, are managed competently. The Management Accountant will report to the Finance & Operations Director and will manage a small team of Finance Associates.
You will have previous experience of working within a similar role, managing the whole internal reporting process, including communicating financial information to none financial staff. You will be committed to Ambition Institute’s mission of improving the education and outcomes of children from disadvantaged backgrounds. You will be an excellent communicator and be able to build relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, as well as having excellent numeracy and literacy skills and a commitment to the development of staff.
Who are Ambition Institute?
Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Our offer
We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:
- Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager
- A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
- 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period
- A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)
- Competitive salary rates
- Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers
- An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
- A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development
How to apply
To apply for any of our vacancies or for any questions or queries please click the link to visit our website.
Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.
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Want to work for a leading property organisation with hundreds of millions of pounds worth of assets? Are you a newly qualified accountant or finalist looking for the opportunity to broaden your accountancy knowledge? Do you want to work for an organisation that prides themselves on developing their staff within? Then this is the role for you!
My client is a rapidly growing nationwide property organisation based in Birmingham looking for a Senior Financial Accountant to join their team in a role filled with fantastic growth and development potential.
The main responsibilities of the Senior Financial Accountant are as follows:
- Play a key role in the production of the company annual report and accounts including the provision of consolidation returns for departmental accounts and organisation accounts as a whole.
- Lead in the production of statutory accounts and other key year-end reports.
- Provide vital input into the strategic decision-making process, by building relationships with key staff throughout the business.
- Manage the internal and external audit process.
- Act as the driving force behind process improvements across the organisation.
This is a wonderful opportunity for a strong Financial Accountant or Auditor to develop their career further within an industry leading organisation with highly ambitious organisational growth-plans in place to substantially increase in size over the next ten years. Furthermore, there is the opportunity for the successful candidate to develop within this organisation in the future, with progression in 12 to 18 months a realistic goal.
The successful candidate will have:
- Fully qualified as an accountant or be at finalist level (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, etc.).
- Experience within a financial accountancy, audit or assurance role.
- A natural problem solving ability with excellent communication skills.
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills (vlookups, pivot tables, etc.).
If you are interested in this position, please apply immediately as applications are reviewed daily and this role may be filled before the closing date.
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Senior Credit Controller
Are you a Senior Credit Controller looking for a new challenge, working for an organisation that makes a real difference to the lives of vulnerable people?
Position: Senior Credit Controller
Location: Coventry
Salary: Up to £25k per annum depending on experience
Duration: Full time, permanent
Benefits: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays pro rata, benefits scheme offering discounts and cashback at high street shops and major supermarkets, gyms etc., Free confidential access to 24hr assistance program for counselling, advice and support
About the role:
Our client offers care and support services to people with learning disabilities, autism, acquired brain injuries, mental health support needs and other complex care needs, helping them to live life to the full. They are seeking an experience Credit Controller to work within their friendly team based in Coventry.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Maintain or lower funder/debtor balances, so risk of increased 60-day debt is reduced.
- Respond to invoice disputes or contractual queries to aid payment.
- Ensure billing information meets client/contractual requirements.
- To collect both due and overdue transactions within the Sales Ledger so that balances are maintained or lowered.
- To understand 60+ day debt and look to reduce and/or stop where possible other debts from ageing to 60+.
- Manage complex and challenging accounts.
- Secure payment promises/then receipt of payment promises to hit Company/Group Cash Collections targets
- Reconcile accounts (payments and/or credits/adjustments against invoices/amended invoices/debit notes) when required if balance outstanding is disputed by funder/debtor.
- To understand debtor disputes or queries and involve others within the Company/Group that promotes resolution/allows payments to be released.
- Support the regional administrators with debtor reports; aged debt analyses; weekly debt calls and raising of fees when required.
- Monthly reconciliation of Residential personal accounts and liaise with finance team and the RA when the need arises.
- To ensure all cash receipts are allocated to the Sales Ledger appropriate funder/transaction in a timely and accurate manner.
- Authorise credit notes, re-works and refunds in line with company approval limits.
- Through on going contact with debtors, assess the need to issue a final notice on an account and recommend legal action where appropriate.
- Assist with fees uplift and ensuring that any fee changes have been updated on the system.
About You:
The successful Senior Credit Controller will bring with them the following skills and experience:
- Exceptional communication skills, including verbal and written
- Good negotiation skills
- Aptitude for problem solving and implementing processes
- Minimum three years’ experience in a Senior Credit Control role or similar
- Excellent analytical skills, including experience of Microsoft Excel and Word
- Ability to lead by example and inspire others
- Able to work well as part of a team and on own initiative
- Possess good self-motivational skills
- Strong supervisory and leadership skills
Although not essential Knowledge of ‘Access’ accounting system would also be highly desirable for this role.
Other roles you may have experience of could include: Credit Controller, Senior Credit Control, Senior Accounts Receivable Clerk/Credit Controller, Credit Control Assistant, Credit Control Clerk, Credit Control/Collections, Credit Control Supervisor, Credit Control Manager, Billing and Credit Control Manager etc.
Department: Funded Programmes
Contract Duration: Until 31st March 2021
Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.
As an Account Officer, you’ll be the face of service delivery within the Help to Claim programme team and for local Citizens Advice. In this role you’ll be working across the organisation and with local Citizens Advice, helping to run our service delivery function.
You’ll be the main point of contact for local Citizens Advice and will support them to deliver a high profile, national multi channel service to our clients.
You’ll also work with them to solve problems and help them find solutions, including for complex problems as they arise. You’ll be able to draw on a range of resources to help this happen including the wider account management team.
Our roles are open to discussion about flexible working, which may include arrangements such as part-time working, formalised flexitime, fixed (non-standard) working hours, working from home and job-sharing. Flexible working - while our teams are office based, it's fine to work from home regularly, and we welcome discussions about working part-time.
Ranked by Indeed as a top 10 non-profit employer in the UK (December 2018)
We welcome applications from Local Citizens Advice staff and are open to arranging secondments.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non-binary candidates.
We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.
Want to work for a leading property organisation with hundreds of millions of pounds worth of assets? Do you want to work for an organisation that prides themselves on developing their staff within? Are you interested in working for an organisation that offers excellent benefits including flexible hours, home working and a substantial pension contribution? Then this is the role for you!
My client is a rapidly growing nationwide property organisation based in Birmingham looking for a Finance Business Partner to join their team in a role filled with fantastic growth and development potential.
The main responsibilities of the Finance Business Partner are as follows:
- Liaise closely with a variety of senior internal and external stakeholders, building excellent relationships with them in order to successfully aid in the development of new properties.
- Take the lead on the budgeting and forecasting process, reviewing them with stakeholders and analysing any variances that there may be.
- Full responsibility for the preparation of company management accounts.
- Lead on the preparation of annual budgets and quarterly reforecasts.
This is a wonderful opportunity for a newly qualified accountant to develop their career further in a broad finance role within a highly ambitious organisation with growth-plans in place to substantially increase in size over the next ten years. Furthermore, this company offers a fantastic benefits package including a substantial pension contribution, flexible working hours and working from home potential.
The successful candidate will have:
- Fully qualified as an accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, etc.).
- Experience of preparing management accounts.
- Ideally previously experience within a business partnering role, however, candidates without this are still encouraged to apply.
- A natural problem solver with excellent communication skills.
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills (vlookups, pivot tables, etc.).
If you are interested in this position, please apply immediately as applications are reviewed daily and this role may be filled before the closing date.
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Senior Purchase Ledger Officer
Are you an experienced Purchase Ledger Officer looking for a new challenge, working for an organisation that makes a real difference to the lives of vulnerable people?
Position: Senior Purchase Ledger Officer
Location: Coventry
Salary: £25k per annum
Duration: Full time, permanent
Benefits: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays pro rata, benefits scheme offering discounts and cashback at high street shops and major supermarkets, gyms etc., Free confidential access to 24hr assistance program for counselling, advice and support
About the role:
Our client offers care and support services to people with learning disabilities, autism, acquired brain injuries, mental health support needs and other complex care needs, helping them to live life to the full. They are seeking a highly motivated Senior Purchase Ledger Officer to work within their Purchase Ledger function ensuring accurate and complete posting of all purchase ledger transactions.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring strong internal controls in respect of matching purchase orders and supplier invoices.
- Ensuring monthly and periodic balance sheet reconciliations are undertaken and reviewed.
- Ensuring a structured approach to supplier reconciliations.
- Working closely with the Financial Accountants to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the nominal ledger.
- Reviewing and challenging current processes and procedures and looking for continuous improvement.
- Matching, batching and coding of invoices
- Assisting in bank reconciliations as and when required.
- Liaising with suppliers & internal/external stakeholders
About You:
The successful Senior Purchase Ledger Officer will possess a positive ‘can-do’ attitude, other skills and experience required for this role include:
- At least 3 years proven experience in purchase ledger role
- Good organisational skills and attention to detail
- The ability to cope well under pressure.
- Be able to work effectively as part of a team and excited about a career in accounts.
- The ability to work off your own initiative and willingness to learn.
- Fantastic IT Skills, particularly with Microsoft Excel.
- Excellent communication skills and confident liaising with other areas of the business.
If you feel you possess the right skills for this role, then apply today and join our client’s friendly team!
Other roles you may have experience of could include: Purchase Ledger, Senior Purchase Ledger, Purchase Ledger Clerk, Sales & Purchase Ledger Officer, Accounts Payable & Receivables Officer, Finance Officer, Payroll and Purchase Ledger Officer, Accounts Payable Officer, Purchase Ledger Manager