Assistant Accountant - Convenience

Due to a recent acquisition we're recruiting for an Assistant Accountant – Convenience who will report to one of our Finance Managers.

You'll be responsible for the support and delivery of company-wide transactions and processes within the Finance function ensuring that your thinking is Customer first in all aspects of your role. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Assist with financial reporting on both a regular and ad hoc basis. 
• Suggest continuous improvement ideas to ensure that stakeholders requirements are fully met and/or exceeded. 
• Retain a customer focus through daily routines.
• Participate in projects, providing support for improving business processes and procedures. 
• Provide and communicate financial information required. 
• Take responsibility for cultivating positive working relationships with key business stakeholders and finance department peers. 
• Generate accruals, prepayments and adjustment journals, providing detailed analysis of overhead expenditure to key stakeholders. 
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and assist the financial accountant/finance manager to identify key risks and opportunities within those accounts. 
• Take responsibility for assigned general ledger accounts to ensure they are correctly stated on a periodic basis. 
• Produce commentary to financial reports, enabling departments to manage their budgets more effectively and efficiently. 
• Provide variance analysis and trending techniques to measure performance against budget, forecasts and business cases. 

We are looking for a candidate who is working towards a professional qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)

For this role we are looking for someone who has:

• A ‘Can do’ proactive approach
• An ability to deliver in a complex, fast paced environment
• Proficient analytical and numerical skills 
• The ability to build good relationships   
• Experience of operating in a finance function/environment preferred 
• Experience of using Google sheets/Microsoft Excel preferred 
• Experience of delivering to deadlines 
• Good verbal communication skills, ability to articulate financial data in a clear and transparent way
• Resilience and ability to adapt in an ever changing environment
• Attention to detail
  

We're Foodmakers and Shopkeepers and together, we make Morrisons. We're the only UK retailer with our own manufacturing business spread across 18 sites, not to mention nearly 500 stores, we've lots of opportunities for you to play your part. So, whether you want to make the freshest food, sell it or join us in our head office, we'd love to meet you.

As part of our Total rewards package we offer:

• 15% colleague discount in store and online, plus an additional 10% discount card for friends/family members
• Annual bonus scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement 
• Four day working week* with flexible working hours
• Enhanced company pension contributions
• Perks with over 850 retailers through 'my morri'

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