Job Description

OBM are recruiting for a Group Assistant Accountant to join our Aberdeen based clients team on a 12 month fixed term contract.

Job Purpose:
Reporting to the Group Finance Manager, the Group Assistant Accountant will be responsible for:

• Maintaining POs for UK and corporate overhead departments
• Generating necessary paperwork to support manual payments for UK and corporate overhead departments
• Providing accurate, timely, relevant information and analysis in relation to corporate overhead departments
• Monitoring system WIP/system stock control accounts and ensuring they are cleared down prior to month ends
• Processing UK payroll journals and reconciling payroll control accounts
• Producing intercompany reports and ensuring the regular reconciliation and settlement of balances Maintaining Group CAR processes/reporting and UK fixed asset registers
• Providing support to the Group Finance team with the preparation and review of various regular reports - cash flow forecasts, VAT returns

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for timely, accurate and reliable financial reporting and management information within certain of the corporate overhead departments, and also for certain of the holding companies within the Group.
• Responsible for ensuring budgets and forecasts are properly prepared, understood and submitted in accordance with deadlines for those corporate overhead departments and where appropriate for the holding companies.
• Driving internal control initiatives through the business areas and ensuring that financial processes and systems comply with relevant policies and requirements.
• Supporting in the preparation of year end and statutory return information.
• Producing monthly intercompany reports highlighting unreconciled balances, and pursuing relevant business accountants to ensure balances are reconciled monthly and settled at least quarterly (as funds allow).
• Monitoring all submissions to Group Finance from operations and ensuring these are received on time and following up on missing information.
• Assuming overall responsibility for the Group/UK fixed asset registers, obtaining necessary approvals for CARs and monitoring spend against those CARs.
• Assisting with the compilation weekly of the 13 week cash forecast for the group.
• Assisting with the preparation of the quarterly VAT return.
• Completing allocated government statistical returns and submitting as required.
• Assisting as required with the ad hoc Group Reporting Duties.

Minimum Competencies (Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours)

• Financially literate with experience of balance sheet reconciliations
• Computer literate with well developed IT skills across the Microsoft suite, particularly excel.
• Solutions based with strong planning, organisation and numerical skills, and excellent attention to detail.
• Accustomed to working effectively in a fast paced environment, flexible and can adapt to changing workloads and priorities, where high standards are not compromised under pressure.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and in writing. Ability to work standalone whilst remaining a positive contributor to the wider team.
• Desirable Qualifications/Competencies
• Part qualified accountant