Job Description

We're looking for an Assistant Financial Accountant to join our Group Financial Reporting team on a fixed term contract for 12 months, supporting our annual audit and statutory accounts process. You will work closely with experienced finance professionals, supporting on key regulatory reporting activities such as VAT returns and NROSH submissions.



This is an excellent opportunity to develop your technical skills, broaden your understanding of financial compliance, and contribute to delivering high quality outputs in a large organisation. If you're detail oriented, proactive, and keen to progress your finance career, we'd love to hear from you.



Working alongside the Financial Accountants you will support in the preparation of the annual statutory accounts for the group's subsidiary companies.



You will also assist in the delivery of the group's external regulatory financial reporting, including the quarterly VAT and NROSH returns.



You will ideally be a part-qualified member of a CCAB body (ACA/CIMA/ACCA).





The role is suitable for a part qualified accountant, or in the absence of professional qualifications you would hold three years of relevant experience. This would include working as part of a financial reporting team, completing management accounting, budgeting, working with financial systems and working as part of a larger team to achieve common goals.



You'll need to be an effective communicator, establishing and building relationships across the business to enable collaborative working where applicable.



You'll be working in a fast paced environment, so you'll need to be able to juggle conflicting priorities and a demanding workload so a high energy, pragmatic, get it done attitude is essential.



You'll be a good team player with a 'can-do' attitude, as well as being a proactive, forward thinker with a flexible approach to hours worked.



We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

Flexible working - whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business' needs A focus on colleague wellbeing - workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan We invest in colleagues' careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more Enhanced leave We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives


To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you'd be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV.



We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

Aster is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it's subsidiary brands.

The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.


If you'd like any support please contact the Recruitment Team on

recruitment@aster.co.uk

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