Assistant Accountant | £24,000 - £26,000 AAT Study Support | Bolton | PE-backed business | Long-term progression

Axon Moore are delighted to be partnering with a high-growth PE-backed business in Bolton to recruit an Assistant Accountant who is hard-working, driven and keen to succeed. This is a highly sought-after role which is well suited to ambitious aspiring chartered accountant seeking long-term progression whilst working alongside their studies towards AAT.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:
* Raising sales invoices and posting purchase invoices
* Processing supplier payments
* Assistance with the production of the monthly management accounts
* Balance sheet reconciliations
* Reporting actuals against budget with comments on variances
* Monthly transactional analysis
* Management of fixed asset schedule
* Prepayments and accruals
* Management of debtors and creditor ledger
* Intercompany reconciliations
* Bank reconciliations
* Frequent bank checks and informing operation team of cash receipts
* Assistance with reporting and resolving issues with the finance system to support team
* Working with auditors / providing them with information requests in a timely manner
* Ad-hoc reporting
Required Experience and Skills:
* Studying towards AAT
* Experience working within a finance team
* Strong written and verbal communication skills
* Good organisational and time-keeping skills
* High attention to detail and able to take ownership of their role
* Good IT and MS Excel skills
* Prior exposure to month-ends
Benefits:
* 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
* Birthday/celebration day off
* Healthcare cashback plan
* Company pension (4% employer contribution)
* 5x Life Assurance
“Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Jack Moss at , or see our website at www.axonmoore.com.”