Trainee Accounts Assistant

37 hours per week 8.30am to 4.30pm Mon-Thurs and 4pm Friday with a 30 minute unpaid lunch break. Flexi-time is available.

2 Fridays off every month after month-end reporting.

22.5 days holidays and 8 bank holidays

5% pension salary sacrifice

Private healthcare

2 x base salary life insurance

Car parking - own transport required due to location

Fantastic opportunity to join a company who will support your continued growth and development with both comprehensive training and additional qualifications. You should have some form of finance qualification and graduates will be considered.

You will be supporting the Financial Controller in the following areas:-

• Preparation of month end files.

• Supplying timely financial and management information for monthly consolidation.

• Assistance in the monthly close of the general ledger, processing of standard monthly journal entries, review and rationalisation of trial balance, reconciliation of key control accounts pre-close.

• Assistance with the compilation of the monthly reporting pack for consolidation to agreed deadlines.
• Collation of ad-hoc management information for Financial Controller.

• Assistance in preparation and posting of standard monthly journal entries for revenue recognition, payroll, accruals, prepayments, Inventory and misc. adjustments.
• Assistance in maintenance of a monthly file of balance sheet reconciliations for all balance sheet accounts to ensure accuracy and integrity at all times.

• Assistance in preparing quarterly VAT returns and maintaining supporting VAT information for monthly Intrastat Returns and quarterly EC Sales Lists.
• Support any audit queries both internal and external.
• Support and assistance in the preparation of key sales invoices, credit notes and proformas
• Assisting in maintaining the fixed asset register.
• Any other ad-hoc duties required by the Finance department.

COG Ltd are acting as an Employment Agency.