Accounts Assistant
Role: Accounts Assistant
Location: Bromsgrove
Contract: 14-month Fixed Term, maternity cover – 35 hours per week
Salary: £23,500 per annum
Benefits
- 30 days’ annual leave, rising to 35 days with length of service + bank holidays
- Company Pension
- Life Assurance
- Employee Discount Scheme
- Free on-site parking
About Us
We are Polaris, one of the UK’s largest communities of children’s service providers. Within the community, we have independent fostering and adoption agencies who have been passionately improving the lives of young people for over 30 years, as well as leaving care services, education and bespoke children’s services contracts. Our nurturing community works collectively to support the very best outcomes for each and every child in our care. We’re ambitious for our children and young people, families and staff, and believe in their futures.
We are delighted to be seeking an Accounts Assistant to join our expanding team at our head office in Bromsgrove.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for an Accounts Assistant to provide comprehensive and flexible accounts processing and administrative support service within the management accounts team, and the wider finance department as required.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in the production of timely and accurate monthly management accounts for entities as assigned by the Finance Manager
- Reconciliation and substantiation of balance sheet accounts as assigned by the Finance Manager
- Ownership and management of cashflow, purchase cards, and the petty cash process
- Inputting and approving outgoing payments from the group
- Building effective relationships with the business in order to maintain a strong financial control environment
- Continually strive for process improvement and efficiency, working cross-functionally to ensure best practice is adopted
- Development of self through professional studies and work-based experience
About You
- Proficiency of the full Microsoft Suite, including Excel
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Ability to work well under pressure and handle changing priorities
- Experience/understanding of accounts payable or receivable, and management accounts production would be advantageous
- Experience of working within a finance function of a large organisation would be advantageous
- AAT Part Qualified is desirable
Contact
For an informal discussion about this new role, please contact Kate Fokes, Senior Financial Accountant, via email: kate.fokes@polariscommunity.co.uk.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
The successful applicant will be subject to a DBS check.
Polaris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
We reserve the right to withdraw this advert without notification.
