Sewell Wallis
Assistant Accountant
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Sewell Wallis is working exclusively with a growing, PE-backed business based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who are looking to add an Assistant Accountant to their dynamic team. This role poses a brilliant opportunity for an ambitious candidate to work under an excellent mentor in a varied, progressive position.
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What will you be doing?
- Support the preparation of monthly management accounts, including journals, accruals, prepayments and supporting schedules.
- Prepare and maintain monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring balances are accurate, supported and investigated where required.
- Assist with month-end close activities, ensuring deadlines are met and financial information is completed accurately.
- Maintain fixed asset records, including additions, disposals and depreciation postings where required.
- Prepare working papers and schedules to support internal review, external audit and year-end reporting.
- Work with operational teams to resolve finance queries and improve understanding of finance processes.
- Help ensure financial controls, authorisation procedures and company policies are followed consistently.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, strengthen controls and increase efficiency within the finance function.
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What skills are we looking for?
- Previous experience in a finance or accounting role, ideally with exposure to month-end processes, reconciliations and transactional finance.
- Proactive and willing to investigate issues through to resolution.
- AAT qualified, part-qualified or studying towards AAT/ACCA/CIMA would be desirable.
- Strong Excel skills, including the ability to work with financial data, use formulas and present information clearly.
- Experience using finance systems such as Sage 50 Accounts would be advantageous.
- Experience within multi-site or regulated environments would be beneficial but is not essential.
- Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to liaise professionally with finance and non-finance colleagues.
- Strong organisation skills and the ability to manage competing deadlines accurately and efficiently.
What's on offer?
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- Hybrid working
- Flexible working
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- 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Company pension
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To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.
Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
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