Assistant Accountant

Job Title: Assistant Accountant. Location: Appleton, Warrington.Salary: £27,500 PA Job Purpose:

To give full support to the Fleet Management Accountant and Fleet Financial Controller
Assist in maintaining and improving procedures to ensure accurate and effective management information
Assist in the production of regular and adhoc analysis to support customers with their weekly and monthly P&L submission, ensuring all reports are completed to strict deadlines
Assist and complete month end tasks for the Fleet Division

Build excellent relationships with our customers, providing finance support & guidance

Main Responsibilities and objectives:Weekly

Production of weekly fleet Repair & Maintenance cost reports for inclusion in weekly P&Ls across the operations
Production of variance reports for inclusion in weekly P&Ls
Charging out various costs to customers
Analyse and monitor YTD decom costs
Report weekly to the Fleet Division on PO back logs, damage/Maintenance allocations.
Production and review of weekly fleet lists, which drive the cost allocation and to challenge where necessary
Investigation & resolution of queries
Provide weekly financial support to fleet management accountant and the fleet division.
Raise all Chorus purchase orders
Resolve purchase order queries from our accounts team, seek appropriate authority & follow procedures
Gain a good understanding of fleet systems, in order to interrogate financial information (Chorus, Tranman & GTS)
Any Ad hoc weekly requirements

Monthly

Intercompany & external invoicing - ensure all costs are correctly recovered and are agreed, prepay & accrue where necessary
Investigate & resolve any queries
Analysis and allocation of company credit card costs
Calculation of charges to be invoiced to customers
Account recs analysis and preparing prepayments, accruals and journals
Assist and provide cover for Fleet Management Accountant and Financial Controller
Any ad hoc monthly requirements

The right candidate:

AAT Qualified
As the successful candidate for the Assistant Accountant, you will have experience in a similar role within a busy accounts department

Strong knowledge of Microsoft packages including Excel (vlookups, formulas, pivot tables etc.) and Chorus

A strong grasp of accounting fundamentals e.g. accruals/prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations

You will have strong communication skills and have the ability to work towards deadlines under pressure
You will have excellent attention to detail and have the ability to work well in a dynamic, growing team
Ability to work using own initiative with limited supervision within fixed guidelines.
Team orientated
Driven and eager

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