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