Looking to get your start in accounting? Get your ACA qualifications and short courses fully sponsored with this market-leading industrial fastenings manufacturer.

Get the same training as that of the Big 4 - but in industry and with closer training!

Who is the company?

The hiring company is a leading industrial fastenings manufacturer. They engineer, manufacture and distribute high quality industrial fastenings (e.g. screws/bolts/nails etc.) for their clients to then assemble into their various products.

Working with huge household names spanning across the automotive, tech and domestic appliances industries - name a major brand of household appliance and the chances are that the company supplied some of the parts for it.

What is the role?

On this 3 year scheme, you will be providing general group accounting assistance, reporting to the Group Financial Controller.

On the scheme you will be:

Taking on a significant statutory reporting and management accounting role, this role will be both varied and challenging, with a clear succession path, and may include some overseas travel.

Key tasks include:

• Consolidated management accounts

• Responsible for producing the consolidated management accounts that are submitted to the Board

• Intercompany trading - review and follow up of monthly reconciliations, elimination of transactions and calculation of related PURP adjustment

• Reconciliation to year end and half year end reporting

• Year end and half year end

• Assist the Group Accountant in the year and half year end procedures:

• Managing the subsidiary reporting process

• Analytical review of submissions and following up on queries raised

• Assisting in the group consolidation, including the calculation of consolidation journals

• Assist in the preparation of the Annual and Interim reports - including direct responsibility for certain technical accounting disclosures

• Budgeting and forecasting process

• Assist the Group Accountant in the annual budgeting and dynamic forecasting processes, including:

• Managing the subsidiary reporting process

• Analytical review of dynamic monthly submissions and following up on queries raised

• Assist in the preparation of the annual Budget and monthly Finance Board report

• Other responsibilities

• Ongoing Treasury management procedures including liaising with banks for drawdown/repayments of RCF facilities as well as calling dividends from subsidiaries

• Ongoing maintenance of certain technical accounting records/calculations

• Act as a day-to-day point of contact for the resolution of subsidiary queries

• Involvement in other areas including rebates, royalty income and credit insurance.

• Ad hoc projects as required by the business

• Involvement in internal 'health checks' across the Group

Why should you apply?

- ACA qualifications fully funded

- As well as sponsoring your ACA qualifications, they will also support you with short-term courses: e.g. those on accounting standards/new legislations.

- The hiring company provide the same level of training as the Big 4 but in an industry environment

- The company has a very friendly, collaborative company culture - your voice will always be heard!

- Opportunities to work from home

- From the outset this role will have lots of responsibility - take ownership of your work!

Who is best suited to these roles?

- You must have obtained a 1st class degree in accounting/accounting-related degree.

- An avid problem solver who takes initiative

- Someone who is great at communication and working in a team

- Someone who has great organisation skills and attention to detail