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Assistant Accountant

United Kingdom, Birmingham Employment contract 16.00 - 17.00 GBP / Hour · Job Posted January 21, 2026
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Assistant Accountant to work on a temp - perm basis. This role is designed to provide hands-on support across the full transactional finance function, covering holiday/sickness and peak periods (particularly month-end). It offers exposure across both day-to-day finance operations and month-end / reporting activity.

Job Responsibility

  • Provide hands-on support across the full transactional finance function, covering holiday/sickness and peak periods (particularly month-end)
  • Offers exposure across both day-to-day finance operations and month-end / reporting activity
  • A genuinely varied Assistant Accountant position suited to someone who enjoys rolling up their sleeves, switching between transactional work and month-end support, and acting as a dependable "go-to" within a small finance team

Requirements

  • Supporting month-end close activity, including journals (accruals, prepayments, depreciation) and balance sheet reconciliations
  • Assisting with management accounts preparation, budgeting support and audit readiness
  • Purchase ledger processing (invoices, expenses, payment runs) and sales ledger support where required
  • Daily banking activity, cash posting and bank reconciliations across multiple ledgers/sites
  • Supporting VAT processes and checks ahead of returns
  • Credit control and cashflow support, including debtor reporting and query resolution
  • Liaising with internal stakeholders and external customers/suppliers to resolve finance queries
  • Producing and supporting ad-hoc reporting for operational teams (e.g. variance analysis, flash-style reports)
  • Providing cover and continuity across transactional finance during holidays, sickness and busy periods
  • Systems exposure (varies by task / cover): Core accounting systems (e.g. Sage / NetSuite-type environments)
  • Expense processing platforms
  • Purchase ledger / PO systems
  • Bespoke operational or job-based finance systems
  • Excel for reconciliations, analysis and reporting (including pivots / lookups)

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