Local Authority

Junior Accountant

Job description

Job Summary
A key area of activity for the role will be liaising with the corporate and operational finance teams, taking queries and seeking the information needed to provide a timely response.

Responsibilities

  • Contributing to the generation of monthly management reports by undertaking a variety of month end tasks such as collating or inputting accruals, prepayments, and other required adjustments.
  • Collating and preparing schedules of transactional journal postings to ensure full reconciliation between the operational systems and the central corporate ledgers (Agresso).
  • Carrying out monthly reconciliations and other control account reconciliations.
  • Reviewing monthly ledger transactions.
  • Providing the team with monthly contractor/agency spend data.

Qualifications/ Experience

  • Graduate of Accounting, Maths, Business Studies or equivalent training route e.g. AAT.
  • Strong numerical and analytical skills.
  • Computer literate with advanced spreadsheet skills.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • A determination to support the team to reach targets and objectives

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £19.16-£21.67 per hour

Expected hours: 37 per week

Experience:

  • accounting: 3 years (preferred)
  • finance: 3 years (preferred)

 

Licence/Certification:

  • AAT Qualification (preferred)

 

Work Location: In person

  • Location: Oxford
  • Salary: Pay: £19.16-£21.67 per hour
  • Type: Full-time
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