Assistant Accountant

Reporting directly to the Group Finance Officer, the suitable candidate will gain extensive exposure across the finance function with hands on learning and development opportunities to grow within the role. This position is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate and will suit someone who is looking to grow professionally alongside the business, and who has the drive to fully engage with the energetic and fast paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Management Accounts: assisting the Management Accountant with all aspects of the preparation to draft stage of the quarterly management accounts. The management accounts will be moving from quarterly to monthly as we move into our new financial year in April 2025 and this role will be critical to achieving the increased reporting cadence. This will also involve preparation of cost centre reports for review by the Management Accountant.
• Intercompany: assist with intercompany reconciliations and processing, ensuring that contra entries are all reconciled. Streets has a complex group structure with over 30 entities, that are a mix of corporates, LLPs and partnerships and so management of intercompany transactions is extremely important to aid with group consolidation.
• Preparation of Workpapers: prepare workpapers to support the management accounts information, including balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis. This will be a critical aspect of the role to add value to the reporting to the leadership team and maintain and enhance financial controls.
• Payroll Posting and Reconciliation: posting the relevant entries to individual entities for the group payroll recharges. Payroll is run through a centralised payroll which is then recharged to trading entities where the payroll needs to be posted to the appropriate nominal codes and reconciled back to the group report. 
• Assist with Integration of Acquired Firms: a key driver of Streets’ growth strategy is to grow through acquisition, with 10 acquisitions/mergers being completed in the past 2 years. You will play an important role in bringing on the new acquisitions and integrating them into the central finance function, ensuring policies and reporting are aligned. 
• Budgeting and Forecasting: you will be required to assist with the preparation of annual budgets and ongoing forecasts of overhead costs and have a keen eye for seeking out efficiency gains from both streamlining costs and consolidation of supply.
• Other Finance Responsibilities: the organisation is a dynamic and fast paced place to work, with the central finance team cast in this same mould and so there will be other impromptu and project based responsibilities arising on a regular basis that you will be required to contribute to.                                                                                     

What We Need From You

• 12 months’ experience working in a similar role.
• AAT L4 or comparable qualification.
• Track record of improving accounting tasks during day-to-day work to improve efficiency and effectiveness. 
• Computer literate with ability to use accounting software effectively and the suite of Microsoft Office apps, particularly Excel.
• An energetic and driven approach, with a thirst to learn and develop in a changing business environment.  
• Appetite to adopt new technology to maximise efficiency. 
• Ability to assess your own work schedule and plan appropriately.
• Experience of intercompany transactions would be helpful but not essential.

Particulars

• Full time, 38.75 hours per week, with flexibility around start and finish times
• This is an office based role with the expectation that 5 days per week will be worked from our offices in Barrowford, however there can be flexible working agreed when necessary to accommodate appointments etc.  

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.