SV Rail Hiring for Assistant Accountant Job at Kidderminster, England Full Time

Assistant Accountant

Comberton Place, Kidderminster, DY10 1QR

• £25,000 pa
• Full time (37.5 hours per week)
• 9-12 month contract initially (Maternity Cover)
• Generous company pension
• On-site parking
• Reporting to Financial Accounting Manager
• Start as soon as possible

The Severn Valley Railway is a heritage railway and recognised as one of the best visitor attractions in the area and has a strong focus on the visitor experience. This role will be working for Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) plc, a not for profit organisation, with a turnover circa £8m per annum.

A varied role reporting to the Financial Accounting Manger, the Assistant Accountant will provide assistance to the accounting team in all areas of financial accounts.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Credit card payment reconciliations
• Accruals and prepayments
• Purchase ledger accruals
• General ledger postings
• Month end journals
• Bank reconciliation
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations
• VAT returns
• Monitoring shares purchases
• Processing adhoc off priority payments
• Adhoc assistance to sales ledger
• Adhoc assistant to purchase ledger
• Preparation of finance year end reconciliations
• Assisting in the year end audit, providing reports for auditors
• General adhoc accounting tasks as and when required

Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Attention to detail
• Organisation and time management
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Professional and courteous manner
• AAT (Level 3 or equivalent)
• Experience working in a busy finance team
• Good working knowledge of MS Office, eg Word, Outlook, Teams and Excel (intermediate to advanced)
• Experience of Pegasus Opera and iplicit an advantage