Assistant Management Accountant

Role Title: Assistant Management Accountant

Location: Glasgow Head Office

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours / Monday - Friday (1 day Hybrid)

Salary: £30,296.45 per annum

Job Purpose:

To support management accountant and Finance Manager in the production of monthly accounts and to reconcile and maintain clean balance sheet reconciliations.

Key Accountabilities:

* Work closely with management accountant and senior management accountant to ensure department deadlines and targets are met.

* Responsible for preparing and posting month end journals to tight deadlines

* Posting and reconciling accruals & prepayments

* Maintain Fixed asset register & post depreciation

* Month end recoding of P & L transactions

* Checking costs & preparing sections of management accounts

* Reconciling balance sheet accounts

* Reconcile and control WIP Balance sheet accounts

* Ensuring WIP is submitted to operational managers/ customers for approval and billing

* Respond to requests for information and analysis from operations colleagues

* Assist with preparation of audit files and assist external auditors during fieldwork

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

* Experience of working in a finance department preferred but not essential but should demonstrate a desire to work in a finance department. May be working towards a professional qualification (E.g ACCA, AAT, CIMA) or be qualified at Degree, HNC or HND level or equivalent.

* Ability to work to deadlines

* Good interpersonal skills

* High level of accuracy and attention to detail

* Excellent IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel