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Position Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Work Pattern Days

Department: Finance

Location: EMA/Hybrid

Responsible to: Finance Manager

Role Summary

The assistant accountant is a key role in supporting the Finance Manager in ensuring key financial processes are completed to enable the accurate production of the monthly/annual financial statements and to ensure proper financial controls (all reconciliations done and clearing accounts cleared).

Main Responsibilities

• Sales invoicing - ensure all flights are properly invoiced to customers in line with each customer contract
• Customer account maintenance – ensure new accounts and changes are made in line with the customer contract
• Vendor review
• Review of vendor payment details and advise Purchase Ledger of any changes required
• Changes to bank details confirmed with supplier

• Major account management finance support – work with the operations account manager to ensure that all invoices are raised promptly and that all costs are properly recharged and that all customer queries are responded to promptly.
• Monthly balance sheet reconciliations and review
• Accounting for IOM subsidiary – month end journals, reconciliations
• Assist with preparation for Statutory accounts
• Assist with VAT returns
• Assist with Tax return preparation/queries
• Vendor creation and payment review
• Assist with project to automate the vendor payment process
• Assist with update to vendor onboarding process
• Updating bank payment details in Business Central

• Intra group recharges – ensure all intra group charges on the balance sheet are promptly invoiced each month
• Customer cost recharges – ensure all costs are promptly recharged to the customers
• Bank Reconciliations –Review bank reconciliation for month end financial statements
• Adhoc
• New inventory system implementation impacts on finance processes
• Intra Group review

Academic/Educational Requirements

• Educated to ‘A’ level or equivalent
• Accounting/Finance qualification

Required Skills/Experience/knowledge:

• 2-5 years experience within a finance team

· Knowledge of Airline Industry an advantage

• Excellent IT skills specifically ERP systems (Microsoft Business Central preferred), and Microsoft Excel.
• Clear and concise written and spoken communication skills
• Ability to present written information in a structured and balanced way
• Complete tasks on time, especially during financial period ends
• Excellent interpersonal skills and be able to deal effectively and professionally with both internal and external clients and suppliers.
• Proactive, confident, self-starter with ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Attention to detail, accuracy & quality minded

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £40,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• What do you know about West Atlantic ?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Derby, DE74 2SA