Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant

12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

£34,000-£36,000

Woking, Surrey - Hybrid Working

We're supporting a fast-growing, multi-site business looking to appoint an experienced Assistant Accountant on a 12-month maternity cover contract.

This is a busy, hands-on role covering bank reconciliations, cash management, journals, refunds and account reconciliations across a large number of sites and payment providers.

We're looking for someone with a strong grounding in transactional finance who enjoys investigating discrepancies, working with high transaction volumes and taking ownership of financial processes.

The Role

Working within the Finance team, you'll take responsibility for processing and reconciling daily cash movements, ensuring transactions are accurately recorded within Sage.

You'll work closely with Credit Control, Management Accounts, Operations and individual sites to investigate discrepancies, resolve queries and support the month-end close.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage daily bank reconciliations, ensuring cash is accurately posted and reconciled
• Process high volumes of transactions across multiple payment providers, investigating unidentified or incorrectly allocated payments
• Prepare and post journals and transaction imports in Sage, including VAT, payroll, pensions, fees and direct debits
• Reconcile weekly payment-provider reports, ensuring income and associated charges are correctly recorded
• Process customer refunds accurately and within agreed deadlines
• Prepare monthly cash account reconciliations across a large portfolio of sites
• Investigate discrepancies, working with Finance, Operations and individual sites to resolve issues
• Maintain and clear suspense accounts, supporting wider cash and banking activities and month-end deadlines

What We're Looking For

• At least 3 years' experience in a finance or accounting role, ideally with strong reconciliation exposure
• Experience working with high transaction volumes and investigating discrepancies
• Good understanding of double-entry accounting, journals, accruals, AP and AR
• Strong Excel skills, including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP
• Experience using Sage or a similar accounting system would be advantageous
• Excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Proactive, inquisitive and comfortable taking ownership of issues independently
• Immediately available

Why Join?

This is a great opportunity to join a growing business and gain broad exposure across cash management, reconciliations, journals, payment providers and month-end activities.

You'll be part of a supportive finance team, with structured training and the opportunity to make a real contribution from day one.

Apply Now

If you're an experienced Assistant Accountant, Accounts Assistant or Finance Assistant who enjoys hands-on accounting, reconciliations and investigative finance work, we'd love to hear from you.