Assistant Accountant
Looking for a finance role where you can actually see the impact of your work? Here’s your chance to join a growing financial services business in Andover, where you’ll be right at the heart of a newly structured team. This is a broad, hands-on Finance Assistant position – perfect for someone who wants variety, responsibility, and the chance to shape how things are done. You’ll get to work closely with experienced finance leaders, enjoy a stable role and benefit from a business that’s expanding through acquisitions. If you’re ready to step up, make your mark, and enjoy a genuinely supportive team, this is the one to watch.
Reporting to the Transactional Finance Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting Accounts Receivable, including high-volume AR activity
- Assisting with Accounts Payable and providing holiday cover
- Processing and understanding monthly payroll
- Preparing P11Ds and supporting pension administration
- Calculating commission payments
- Processing journals and general bookkeeping
- Supporting all transactional finance activities
- Assisting with company credit card reconciliations
- Acting as a second pair of eyes across finance processes
- Supporting escalations and providing operational assistance to the Finance Manager
- Assisting with additional payrolls following future business acquisitions if required
What you will need:
- Previous experience in a similar finance role (such as Finance Assistant, Accounts Assistant, Bookkeeper, Assistant Accountant, Assistant Management Accountant, Finance Officer or Transactional Finance Officer)
- Broad transactional finance knowledge, including AR, AP, and payroll
- Strong understanding of bookkeeping and finance processes
- Experience with journals, pensions, and P11Ds
- Commission calculation experience (desirable)
- Comfortable working independently and supporting transactional finance
- Experience with Netsuite (advantageous)
What you will get:
- Hybrid working
- Flexible working hours
- Death in service benefit
- Cash contribution health plan
- 30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
- Free parking on site
- Supportive, collaborative team environment
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