Trainee Financial Accountant United Kingdom
Jersey Electricity
Full Time
United Kingdom
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Do you have a keen eye for detail and like getting behind numbers to understand how a business is performing? Do you relish the challenge of interpreting data and making sense of complexity?
As a Trainee Financial Accountant, you will engage in your love of detail and data whilst building essential commerce and accounting skills to support the Finance team with external reporting, controls and management accounting analysis.
As a Trainee Financial Accountant, you will engage in your love of detail and data whilst building essential commerce and accounting skills to support the Finance team with external reporting, controls and management accounting analysis.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the preparation of external, statutory financial reporting under IFRS and the annual production of JE’s Annual Report & Accounts, and half year reporting
- Support the production and analysis of the monthly management reporting
- Complete monthly balance sheet controls, investigate and correct reconciling differences
- Assist in the completion of the audit
- Support in preparation of computations and returns for GST and Corporate Tax
- Support the business and finance on queries with their results
- As part of trainee contract, working across a range of finance activities is essential for development. Commitment to complete training and other courses/on the job training is required
- Support finance with analysis, developing knowledge and skills in the use of the technology that JE is investing in
- Support the business and finance team on its digital transformation journey, embracing new systems changes and carrying out testing as necessary pre and post Go Live
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Trainee Accountant (ACA, CA, ACCA, CIMA)
- Ideally a Graduate level of education (BSc, BA or equivalent NVQ Level 5)
- Desire to gain professional accounting qualifications, e.g. ACA / ACCA
- A desire and commitment to develop career in Finance in a commercial environment.
- Confident in Excel. Power BI experience is a benefit (alternatively willingness to learn this is essential)
Benefits
Jersey Electricity provides excellent benefits and offers competitive salaries combined with an attractive pension and paid parental leave with enhanced leave for mothers/primary carers. We are family-friendly, believe in work life balance and strive to give you everything you need to both love your job and do excellent work.
In addition, we offer discounted electricity rates and discount within our Powerhouse shop.
In addition, we offer discounted electricity rates and discount within our Powerhouse shop.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender re-assignment, pregnancy and maternity, age or disability status.
About Jersey Electricity
At Jersey Electricity, our vision is to enable life’s essentials and inspire a zero carbon future. We are committed to our customers and employees and share values of Safety, Customer Focus, Responsibility, Reliability, Teamwork and Excellence.
We are an engaged and focused workforce, committed to ensuring we “keep the lights on” across the island and explore new ways of providing energy and related services to islanders. Working at Jersey Electricity means you are part of “family” of around 340 employees across a number of diverse business sectors from the distribution of energy to Retail and Commercial services.
We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure as required in consultation with the applicant to ensure no-one is disadvantaged because of their disability. All disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role as set out in the role profile will be guaranteed an interview.
We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure as required in consultation with the applicant to ensure no-one is disadvantaged because of their disability. All disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role as set out in the role profile will be guaranteed an interview.
Whatever your role with us, you will find the support you need to develop in a long-term career and work with many long-serving employees to help us achieve our vision.
Being an employee of Jersey Electricity, you will:
- Share in the success of ground-breaking projects to electrify the island;
- Be part of a highly skilled and developing workforce;
- Participate in company-wide wellbeing initiatives;
- Develop both professionally and personally in a supportive environment;
- Benefit from a competitive rewards and compensation package;
- Help us develop our engaged, diverse and innovative workforce;
What our employees say:
“The employees, and the support from colleagues who I work with on a day to day basis, are helpful and friendly making it an attractive place to work”
“Great team with a manager who understands outside life and flexibility when needed”
“Real sense of purpose to enable life's essentials in Jersey - and real ability to make a difference to support a low carbon world”
“I think JE is a great place to work with fantastic people, variety of career opportunities , lots of challenges and great values”
“It’s a really good company to work for, highly recommended to anyone to join Jersey Electricity”
“It's a great team with some really kind people who will often go the extra mile. Also great to work somewhere that is so crucial to island life and knowing that if we do our jobs well it benefits everyone”
Jersey Electricity
www.jec.co.uk
Saint Helier, Guernsey
Geoffrey J. Grime
$100 to $500 million (USD)
201 to 500 Employees
Company - Public
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