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Assistant Management Accountant | Fast-Growing SME Retail Business \n\n • Permanent\n, • SW London - Kingston upon Thames\n, • Salary depending on experience £38,000 - £45,000\n, • 4 Days in HQ - Stunning offices!\n, • Flexi hours + Bonus + study support + discounts and much more\n\n \n The Opportunity \n An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Assistant Management Accountant to join a fast-paced and growing SME retail business. \n This is a genuinely hands-on role within a lean Finance team, offering excellent exposure across the full month-end process and the wider business. It would suit someone who enjoys getting into the detail, takes ownership of their work and wants to be part of a team where everyone plays an important role. \n You'll work closely with the Commercial Finance Manager and operational stakeholders, helping to ensure the numbers are accurate, processes are robust and month-end runs smoothly. \n What You'll Be Doing \n\n • \n Taking ownership of key areas of the month-end process from start to finish \n • \n Preparing and posting journals, accruals and prepayments \n • \n Completing balance sheet reconciliations and investigating outstanding items \n • \n Taking responsibility for regular bank reconciliations, ensuring discrepancies are identified and resolved \n • \n Supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts \n • \n Investigating variances and financial queries, getting to the root cause and following through to resolution \n • \n Supporting cashbook and control account activities \n • \n Ensuring financial information is accurate, complete and delivered within agreed deadlines \n • \n Working closely with colleagues across Finance and the wider business to resolve queries \n • \n Helping to improve processes, controls and ways of working as the business continues to grow \n • \n Providing support across the wider Finance function and getting involved wherever needed \n\n What We're Looking For \n We're looking for someone who is hands-on, commercially aware and naturally detail-focused Assistant Management Accountant, with the confidence to take ownership rather than waiting to be told what to do. \n Ideally, you will have: \n\n • \n Experience in an Assistant Management Accountant, Assistant Accountant or similar role \n • \n Strong month-end experience, including journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations \n • \n Excellent bank reconciliation experience and the ability to investigate and resolve discrepancies \n • \n Ideally, experience within an SME or lean Finance environment where you have genuinely been involved in the detail \n • \n A strong understanding of financial controls and the importance of accurate financial information \n • \n The ability to manage multiple priorities and work to tight deadlines \n • \n A proactive and solutions-focused approach \n • \n Excellent attention to detail and a real pride in getting things right \n • \n A collaborative approach and willingness to support the wider team \n • \n The confidence to question, investigate and improve rather than simply process \n\n AAT, ACCA or CIMA studies would be beneficial, but practical experience, attitude and the ability to take ownership are just as important. \n Why This Role? \n This is a great opportunity for someone who wants more than a narrow transactional role. \n You'll be joining a fast-paced, growing retail business where you can really get under the bonnet of the numbers, work closely with the wider business and make a visible contribution. \n If you enjoy variety, like being hands-on and want to develop within a supportive Finance team where your contribution \n BH37582

CREDIT CONTROLLER CATTERICK (AFTER PROBATION 1 DAY WORK FROM HOME) MON - THURS 8.30am to 5pm, FRI 8.30 to 2pm £27,000 to £29,500 + GREAT BENEFITS THE OPPORTUNITY: We're partnering with a well-established and growing business that is looking to recruit an experienced Credit Controller to join their finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with previous Credit Control, Debt Collection or Finance Administration experience who is looking for a role that offers genuine development beyond traditional credit control. Initially, the role will focus on taking ownership of the aged debt ledger, collecting outstanding payments, allocating cash and resolving customer queries. As you develop within the position, you'll be cross-trained across wider accounting responsibilities including month-end processes, journals, fixed assets and financial reporting, providing an excellent opportunity to broaden your finance experience. THE CREDIT CONTROLLER ROLE: Taking responsibility for managing the aged debt ledger and proactively collecting outstanding customer balances Contacting customers by telephone and email regarding overdue invoices whilst maintaining strong customer relationships Investigating and resolving invoice queries and disputes to minimise delays in receiving payment Processing incoming payments and accurately allocating cash against customer accounts Processing new credit account applications and completing appropriate credit checks Assessing customer creditworthiness and supporting the setting and management of credit limits Monitoring credit insurance limits against customer balances to ensure appropriate levels of cover are maintained Maintaining accurate customer account information and ensuring the aged debtor ledger is kept up to date Producing regular aged debt and outstanding balance reports for the management team Working closely with internal departments to resolve account queries and improve collection times Supporting the Management Accountant with month-end processes as your experience within the role develops Assisting with maintaining the fixed asset register, depreciation and posting month-end journals Supporting sales reporting, analysis and other wider finance activities THE PERSON: Current or previous experience within a Credit Controller, Credit Control Assistant, Accounts Receivable, Debt Collection, Finance Assistant or similar role Confident managing outstanding debt and communicating with customers by telephone and email Strong communication skills with the ability to have challenging conversations professionally and diplomatically Experience allocating customer payments and maintaining accurate account records Experience handling and resolving invoice or payment queries Previous exposure to credit checks, credit limits or credit insurance would be advantageous, but is not essential A genuine interest in developing broader accounting and finance experience beyond Credit Control TO APPLY: Please send your CV for the Credit Controller role via the advert for immediate consideration. By sending an application or applying for a job, you consent to your personal data being processed and stored by Get Recruited (UK) Ltd in accordance with our Cookie & Privacy Policy (available in the footer on our website). Get Recruited (UK) Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. We are an equal opportunities employer and we never charge candidates a fee for our services. TPBN1_UKTJ

To work closely with the interim head of finance to ensure that the financial IT systems re-implementation and related transactions are processed in a methodology that is both compliant and externally auditable for the Access Partnership group accounting for 2019 and ongoing months. • Assisting with Invoicing cycle – preparation of invoices, approval by senior internal staff, issuance to customers (often via client portals) through to credit control, • Management Accounting – Assist in the detailed reporting for senior management and PE investors, • The External Audit – liaison with Auditors, and providing audit sampling material, • Cashflow information, • AR, AP and banking transactions, including reconciliations, • Intercompany transaction management, • Creating general journals and uploading into Sage Finance, • Tax compliance – VAT and Corporation Tax, • Liaison with Operations staff and senior Geographic/Practice leads, • Balance Sheet reconciliations, and suggesting solutions where appropriate, • Work closely with the finance team - currently UK based staff (CFO, Interim FC, Accounts assistant, Invoicing assistant and assistant accountant) and 2 overseas (US and Singapore) and some involvement with Senegal, • Gaining an understand our IT systems, and staff training if required, • Other duties as and when required, • University Degree, • Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), • Professional Services (particularly a timesheet billing model) – prior experience would be very beneficial, • Good Excel skills (look-up functions/sum if/pivot tables/graphical presentation of data), • Private Equity Experience – prior experience would be preferable, but not essential #J-18808-Ljbffr