Accountant

Role: Accountant

Location: Kettering

Salary: up to £35,000

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (flexi time model)

Tandem Recruitment are recruiting for an accountant for our client based in Kettering. The role will be reporting to the Financial Controller and the successful candidate will provide varied financial and accounting support to all business functions across the company network.

 Full training will be given but the key responsibilities of the role will be:

• Preparation of the management accounts and forecasts
• Assist in year-end audit, providing documentation and answering auditors’ questions
• Maintain monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Responsible for VAT reporting
• Responsible for supporting monthly and annual stock take
• Responsible for maintaining the fixed asset register
• Analysis and reporting
• Standard costing for Test Equipment products
• Setup of new customer accounts
• Amendments to customer accounts
• Sales invoicing for our Irish Entity
• Process expense claims and credit card statements
• Maintaining foreign currency petty cash
• Processing monthly payroll

About you

Essential

• Proven all round accounts department experience including involvement in the production of monthly management accounts
• Ideally AAT Qualified, part qualified CIMA, ACCA or recognised equivalent
• A team player
• Good communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Influencing/persuasion skills
• Capable of developing others to enhance the department’s skills matric
• Capable of producing/working with intermediate level Excel spreadsheets

• Desirable

• Knowledge of Dynamics 365 Business Central and Customer Engagement systems
• An understanding of the consolidation of accounts
• Payroll experience

Benefits Include Staff benefits include 25 – 30 days (service related) annual leave; life assurance; a group personal pension plan; income protection; free parking; flexible working hour.

Tandem Recruitment is a recruitment consultancy working on behalf of our client. All applications will be considered unsuccessful if no contact has been made 72 hours after an application is received.