Assistant Accountant

Job Introduction

Job Title: Assistant Accountant 

Location: Lytham St Anne's 

Contract: 37.5 hours per week 

Salary: £23,000 depending on experience

Interviews: w/c 16th March 

We now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Assistant Accountant to join our Finance team at our Head Office in Lytham St Anne’s. As the Assistant Accountant you will have a logical, problem solving attitude and will enjoy working as part of a close-knit team. You must have excellent communication skills, be proactive and able to manage your own workload which will vary from day to day.

Role Responsibility

You will support the Finance Manager in the following functions:

• Ensuring accurate recording of all income streams flowing through to monthly reconciliations of control accounts.
• All tasks of the accounts payable function, accurately posting invoices, reconciling supplier statements, contacting suppliers as required.
• Preparing and reviewing weekly BACS pay runs, CHAPS and cheque payments
• Responsibility for managing utility invoices and liaising with the suppliers and Beaverbrook’s Property Services department to resolve issues to ensure consistent charging of services provided.
• Supporting store colleagues with POS and finance enquiries/regulations including IFC, money laundering and customer enquiries.
• Preparing and posting journal entries.
• Involvement in month end working papers to facilitate preparation of management accounts.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations for completion and accuracy, resolving all outstanding issues in a timely manner.
• Bank reconciliations
• General ad hoc duties – Set up vendor accounts, IFC staff sales calculations, Relocation expenditure.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential:

• Proven knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting principles, practices, standards, laws and regulations.
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet objectives, working independently and as part of a team
• Ability to demonstrate that you can work as an integral part of a small team, with a flexible and personable approach
• Excellent accounting software user
• Advanced excel skills including VLOOKUP’s and pivot tables.
• A problem-solving attitude
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy and confidentiality.
• Analytical, tenacious, able to engage and challenge at a management level in a professional manner.

Desirable:

• Experience of Navision software

About the Company

We’re a family business. And you can tell that when you get here. It feels like family.

From the very smallest details to the big important things. You’ll feel it in the warm and familiar way we talk to each other and you’ll feel it in the way we engage with the wider community, too.

As a company – we’re true to our word. When we say we’re going to do something, we go all out to do it. And every individual is truly valued.

Established in 1919 we now have 70 stores across the UK and provide exceptional quality diamonds, jewellery and watches as well as top name brands such as TAG Heuer, Omega, Breitling, Tudor, Gucci and Vivienne Westwood.

We pride ourselves on the work we do for local communities. We donate 20 per cent of retained profits to charity and since the year 2000, Beaverbrooks has donated in excess of £13 million to over 750 different charities.

We were awarded ‘Employer of the Year’ in The UK Jewellery Awards 2019 and have featured in The Sunday Times Top 100 ‘Best Companies to Work For’ for 17 consecutive years –ranking number 9 in 2020. Further recognition has also been received at the Retail Week Awards 2019, where we were awarded 'Best Place To Work'.

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Beaverbrooks