Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant

• Location: Central London
• Job Type: Permanent full-time office-based opportunity
• Working hours 09:30 – 17:30

I have partnered with a well-established, family-run Property Management company who have a newly created opportunity for an Assistant Accountant. This is a demanding, hands-on role that offers a mix of accounting and operational responsibilities.

The ideal candidate will be a proven Accountant with good technical understanding and experience of transactional accounting and the month-end process. This exciting role requires travel and also supporting the Operations Manager in the management of a UK and European Property Estate so you need to have strong communication and be available to travel on a quarterly basis to Europe.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Handle back-end processing of purchase invoices, office expenses, bank reconciliations, and trial balances.
• Responsible for all transactional accounting duties across UK & European multi entity structure.
• Reconciling bank accounts, 8 bank accounts including FX.
• Assist in the development of annual budgets for the residences and related entities.
• Aid in the preparation for operational and budgetary audits.
• Contribute to month-end and year-end finance closing activities.
• Assist the Director of Operations with daily tasks and deputise on site visits across UK and European private residences.
• Support the Executive Team’s administrative needs.
• Quarterly European Business trips, 1–3-night stays.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong accounting background with a minimum of 3 years of experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience with Xero software is highly advantageous.
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills.
• Proven multitasking ability, with the capacity to work on multiple projects for multiple individuals.

Benefits:

• 30 days paid annual holidays (plus bank and other national holidays).
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• Competitive company Pension Scheme.
• Life Insurance (x4 salary level).
• Income Protection Insurance.

If you are looking for a hands-on diverse role within an interesting business including travel, please apply below.