Accounts Assistant
Janes, United Kingdom
Job Description
The Accounts Assistant will play a vital role in delivering best-in-class financial reporting across the Jane’s Group. Focussed on clear, accurate and timely data entry, review and substantiation the candidate will primarily support Group Financial Accountant across monthly management accounts preparation to ensure deadlines are met. Support on wider statutory and tax reporting will be included periodically.
How you will contribute at Janes:
- Reviewing GL entries for completeness (e.g. cost centre) and accuracy (e.g. prepayments / capitalisation), communicating corrections to wider team.
- Maintaining fixed asset register, including creating new assets and processing depreciation journals.
- Responsible for clear, accurate balance sheet reconciliations and supporting driver/trend analysis. Investigate and resolve issues identified.
- Preparation and posting of month end journals, ensuring journal support workings/documents are in place
- Preparation of intragroup recharge invoices/interest charges and maintenance of intercompany ledgers
- Assist with VAT/sales tax report preparation across group entities.
- Assist with cash analysis and forecasting
- Support with group and local audit work
- Help with internal process note preparation and updating
The ideal skills and experience for this role are:
- Well organized, able to prioritize tasks to ensure deadline are met
- Clear and confident communicator, able to build positive relationships across Finance team and wider business; keeps colleagues informed on deliverables/actions.
- Attention to detail, ability to identify problems and work diligently to propose and execute/delegate solutions
- Willingness to challenge existing processes and offer considered proposals for changes/improvements
- Experience in SAAS business an advantage
- Experience with NetSuite an advantage
We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.
Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender.
Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believed that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this.
We will always consider part time or flexible applications.