ASHLEY REES
ASSOCIATES Finance & Accountancy Recruitment Specialists

An accountancy practice based in central Bristol is currently recruiting a Trainee Accountant to join their team.

Working for an independent, expanding business, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field and undertake a professional accountancy qualification as study support will be provided.

Duties will include:

• Preparing financial accounts for clients
• VAT returns
• Tax computations
• Assisting clients with financial queries
• Liaising with the payroll department regarding individual contractors and their queries

Previous experience of working within an accounts team is advantageous but not essential.  The successful candidate must have good academics and be confident dealing with people both over the phone and face to face.

A service organisation based in north Bristol is currently recruiting a Customer Service Administrator to join their team.

Working for a growing SME business, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:
• Prepare quotations and tender submissions
• Liaise and build rapport with customers and suppliers
• Identify and take a proactive role in implementing process improvements for the CRM system and reporting
• Attend monthly sales meetings taking minutes and other administrative tasks
• Assist and support Account Managers
• Order processing
• Dealing with queries

Previous experience of working within an administrative role is essential. The successful candidate must also be able to demonstrate string communication skills both face to face and over the telephone.

A service organisation based in Taunton is currently recruiting a Finance Director to join their team.

This is an ideal role for someone ambitious, looking to step up from a Financial Controller position and bridge the gap to becoming a medium-size company CFO.  Working for an organisation that has recently undergone some positive, commercially-focussed cultural changes, this role will report directly to the CEO.

Duties will include:

• Establish and lead financial strategy
• Formulate financial targets and budgets
• Understand the value drivers of the business, review and develop financial performance indicators
• Working closely with managers across the company to evaluate and drive business performance
• Oversee and suggest ways to improve the company’s transaction processing system
• Ensure company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements
• Lead acquisition due diligence and negotiations
• Review and maintain internal control to ensure financial and commercial risks are correctly identified, monitored and mitigated

Previous experience of working within a role that encompasses line management and senior reporting responsibilities is essential.  The successful candidate must be ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified.

 A healthcare business based in north Bristol is currently recruiting an Accounts Assistant to join their team.

Working for a well-recognised brand and a role offering study support, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Bank reconciliations
• Post cash transactions
• Maintain records for audit purpose
• Cash allocation
• Deal with customer queries
• Process expenses and invoices

Previous experience of working in a finance role is essential.  The successful candidate must also be comfortable using excel.

A service organisation based in Portishead is currently recruiting an Administrator to join their team.

Working for a growing business that offers progression within the role, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Scanning tickets and filing documents
• Data input and creating reports
• Keeping files up to date
• Ticket management, scanning and documenting them
• Obtaining quotes and dealing with queries

Previous experience of working within an office is essential.  The successful candidate will have good communication skills and be comfortable using Microsoft Office

A service organisation based in central Bristol is currently recruiting a Financial Accountant to join them for approximately 6 months.

Covering maternity, the position will report into the Finance Director and work in an accounts team of four others.

Duties will include:

• Variance reporting
• Cash management of project companies
• Forecasting and budgeting
• Assist with statutory accounts
• VAT returns
• Support investor reporting
• Provide day to day management of the Bookkeeper

Previous experience of working in a management/financial accounting role is essential.  The successful candidate will also ideally hold a professional accountancy qualification.

A service organisation based in central Bristol is currently recruiting a Administration Manager to join their team.

Working for a growing business, this role will suit someone who enjoys working within a fast-paced, dynamic environment that encourages accountability and initiative.

Duties will include:

• Assisting business to set up internationally
• Create/develop compliance project plans
• Prepare project documentation
• Deal with corporation tax and international VAT
• Tax registration
• Ensure compliance deadlines are adhered to
• Data analysis and strategic recommendations for clients
• Continually assess and look to improve the client experience
• Manage and oversee a small team

Previous experience of working in a compliance or international finance role would be advantageous.  The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a strong leaderships and organisational skills.

A wholesale organisation based in Stroud is currently recruiting a Purchase Ledger Clerk on a 3-4 day per week basis.

Working for a local business, this role will suit someone keen to continue their career within purchase ledger but happy in an environment that isn’t going to grow and offer career progression.

Duties will include:

• Statement reconciliation
• Posting journals
• Processing invoices
• Working off Sage
• Dealing with customer queries
• Other ad hoc duties within the team

Previous purchase ledger experience is essential.

A manufacturing organisation based in Quedgeley is currently recruiting a Finance Manager to join their team.

Working for a growing, owner-managed business, this role will suit someone who enjoys working within a hands-on, accountable SME environment.

Duties will include:

• Cost and profitability analysis
• Assisting Directors with strategic decisions about the business
• Managing a small team
• Completion of the month end process
• Month and analysis and cash flow forecasting
• Preparing budgets
• Assisting the external accounting with statutory accounts and year-end

Previous experience if using Sage is essential.  The successful candidate must also be able to demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills.

 A service organisation based in Chippenham is currently recruiting an Assistant Accountant to join their team.

Working in a newly created role that offers study support and good benefits, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Assist with the preparation of management accounts
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Maintain fixed asset register
• Calculate VAT
• Bank reconciliations
• Excel building and spreadsheet analysis
• Ad hoc project work

Previous experience of working in an accounts’ role is essential.  The successful candidate must also be proficient on excel and a strong communicator

A healthcare company based in central Bath is currently recruiting a Finance Officer to join their team.

Working for an ethics-first organisation that is committed to being environmentally responsible, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to work for a company that promotes wellbeing and sustainability.

Duties will include:

• Carry out financial management checks for grant holders
• Analysis of financial reporting and forecasts
• Assessment of new grant applications ad expenditure verification
• Carry out site visits (UK and internationally)
• Provide technical guidance to support financial management capacity
• Carry out fraud investigations when required
• Complete audit and due diligence

The successful candidate will have worked within a finance role previously and will ideally be studying towards a professional qualification.  Excellent communication skills and the willingness to travel abroad if needed are also necessary.

A construction company based in Gloucester is currently recruiting a Bookkeeper to join their team.

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this filed, working for a growing and ambitious company.

Duties will include:

• Reconciling the balance sheet
• Producing P&L statements
• Month end analysis to Directors
• Accruals, journals and pre-payments
• Calculation fixed assets and depreciation
• Credit control
• Cash flow analysis

Sage experience is essential.  The successful candidate must also be a confident communicator both over the telephone and face to face.

A public sector organisation based in north Bristol is currently recruiting an Assistant Accountant to join their team.

Working for an ethics-first business that has a reputation for employee welfare this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.  Study support is also offered if desired.

Duties will include:

• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Journals and accruals
• Assist with budget preparation
• Bank reconciliations
• Purchase ledger
• VAT calculations

Previous experience of working in an accounts’ role is essential.  The successful candidate will also ideally be studying for their AAT or an equivalent accountancy qualification.

A service organisation based in Thornbury is currently recruiting a Finance Manager to join their team.

Working for a well-known local business, this role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to have an influence at Senior Stakeholder level as well as being fully involved in the month-end process.

Duties will include:

• Overseeing and mentoring a small team
• Work closely with other heads of departments to ensure smooth running of the business
• Month end reporting
• Assisting with statutory accounts and the audit trail
• Budget management and cost control
• Financial analysis and interpretation of accounts
• Other ad hoc duties as requested by the CEO

The successful candidate will ideally hold a professional accountancy qualification and have previous experience of managing staff.

A manufacturing organisation based in Gloucester is currently recruiting a Business Partner to join their team.

This is a newly created role to work directly alongside the FD and is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Preparation of budgets, forecasts, strategic plans and financial modelling
• Cash flow forecasting, reporting on variances and providing suggestions for ways of improvements
• FX and hedging analysis
• Provide financial analysis on activities, plans, targets and business drivers
• Working closely with supply chain to report and forecast monthly stock levels
• Suggesting ways to improve economic and productive efficiencies
• Variance analysis and KPI calculations
• Ad hoc project accounting and financial modelling
• Assisting with month end duties

Previous experience of working within a commercially-orientated finance role is essential.  The successful candidate must also have strong excel/modelling skills and ideally be ACCA/ACA/CIMA

An Accountancy Practice in central Bristol is currently recruiting a Qualified Audit Senior to join their team.

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field working for a highly reputable, well established but expanding company. This is a newly created role due to growth within the organisation.

Duties will include:

-          Working independently within the team, managing and undertaking all aspects of entire audit engagements, including planning, performing and completing statutory audits of financial statements

-          Reporting directly to director level on assignments

-          Clients include individual companies and groups, across a broad range of industries, and covering smaller owner managed businesses up to £40m turnover businesses

-          Maintain and develop client relationships while working on site, and working closely with client management teams to gather information, resolve problems and make recommendations for business and process improvements, and becoming key point of contact and trusted advisor to clients

-          Control and management of client and reporting deadlines, assignment budgeting, including liaison with other departments and members of staff

-          Involvement to include statutory audits, as well as non-statutory audit, grant claim reporting and other compliance engagements, including companies, charities, pension schemes and societies

-          Undertake non-audit financial statement preparation assignments

-          Opportunities to work with the team to develop new non-audit assurance assignment approaches for existing and new clients to further expand the business, and to cater for the changing audit thresholds and the impact of this on clients’ reporting requirements

-          Maintain and develop audit compliance procedures, audit manuals and involvement in internal compliance reviews of audit files, enabling constant improvement to audit quality and efficiency

-          Opportunities for various ad-hoc projects including management accounting, corporate finance engagements (acquisitions, due diligence, business valuations) and finance raising for clients

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 2-3 years’ experience of working within audit and proficient with Microsoft Office products

-          Experience of working across a broad range of industries, and experience of industry specific accounting practices and treatments would be useful

-          Experience of other accounting functions, such as VAT reporting, management accounting and a sound understanding of corporation tax, would also be beneficial

A service organisation based in Gloucester is currently recruiting a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join their team.

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to enhance their experience within this field working for a highly reputable, well-established organisation.

Duties will include:

• Coding and matching invoices
• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Posting journals
• Dealing with queries
• Processing invoices
• Data entry

Previous purchase ledger experience is essential.  The successful candidate must also be proficient on Excel and other Microsoft Office products

A service organisation based in Frome is currently recruiting a French-speaking Administrator to join their team.

This is a newly created role working for a growing, ambitious organisation and will give the successful candidate the opportunity to occasionally travel off site and abroad to meet the organisations’ clients.

Duties will include:
• Stock reporting for designated countries and customers
• Review, amend and format site inspection reports
• Read and review internal audit reports
• Ensure all electronic files are allocated appropriately
• Provide regular reports to bank and customers
• Specific country administration including HR, legal and accounting

A high level of both written and verbal French language skills are essential. The successful candidate must also possess strong administration skills and be able to organise and communicate effectively.

A manufacturing organisation based in south Bristol is currently recruiting a Management Accountant to join their team.

Working for global organisation that is well-established within the UK, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Prepare financial reports for global business entities
• Produce monthly management accounts
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• KPI reporting and cashflow forecasting
• SOX control testing
• CAPEX planning
• Project accounting

The successful candidate will be studying or have completed a professional qualification.  Strong systems and excel skills are also essential.

A service organisation based in central Bristol (with the opportunity to work from home) is currently recruiting a Compliance Manager to join their team.

Working for a growing business that was founded by individuals who are experts in their industry, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career in this field.

Duties will include:

• Own and run the Compliance Delivery process
• Provide recommendations regarding product and process management
• Build dashboards and utilise project management software
• Liaise with Senior Stakeholders to review current processes
• Prepare project documentation including proposals and statements of work
• Ensure the Client Services team are on target for each compliance project
• Proactively identity operational issues and act accordingly

Previous experience of managing compliance across multiple jurisdictions is essential.  The successful candidate must have string analytical and relationship-building skills and enjoy working within a fast-moving environment

An accountancy practice based in Corsham is currently recruiting an Assistant Accountant to join their team on a three day a week basis.

Working for a well-established business within the local area, this is a great role for anyone looking to reduce their hours but still feel challenged and motivated within the workplace.

Duties will include:

• Preparing client accounts
• VAT returns
• Preparing tax returns
• Using Sage for general ledger work and bookkeeping
• Dealing with client queries

Previous experience is using Sage is essential.  The successful candidate must also be comfortable using Microsoft Office products.

An engineering company based in south Bristol is currently recruiting a Commercial Manager to join their team.

This organisation has recently been acquired by a market-leader and with ambitious growth plans, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Ensuring commercial position of the business is protected and maximised at all times
• Taking the lead in tender opportunities
• Manage team on-site and remotely
• Ensuring all contracts are executed correctly
• Interface with commercial finance
• Build and maintain strong relationship with clients
• Enter into commercial negotiations with clients and sub-contractors
• Manage contractual disputes

Experience of working within framework contracts is essential.  The successful candidate must have tender experience and have strong analytical and reporting skills.

A service organisation based in Portishead is currently recruiting a Finance Manager to join their team.

Working for a growing SME, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone who enjoys managing small teams and has complete ownership of the month end process.

Duties will include:

• Producing a full set of management accounts
• Mentoring and leading a team
• Dealing with Senior Stakeholders in other departments within the organisation
• Contribute towards cost-saving ideas
• Provide month end commentary and analysis
• Asses and manage cash flow
• Assisting with the audit trail

The successful candidate will also ideally hold a professional accountancy qualification, have worked within an SME environment previously and have invoice discounting experience.

A service organisation based in Portishead is currently recruiting a Payroll Administrator to join their team.

Working for a well-established organisation, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Processing monthly salaries and hourly wages
• Issuing P46’s and P46’s when required
• Calculating SSP and SMP
• Payroll reconciliations
• Assisting with Year End
• Dealing with payroll queries

Previous experience of payroll is essential.  The successful candidate must also be confident dealing with people over the phone and face to face.

A manufacturing organisation based in Portishead is currently recruiting a Financial Administrator on a temporary basis.

To cover staff shortages and long terms sickness, this role will last approximately 3 months

Duties will include:

• Assisting with processing staff payroll
• Creating and amending spreadsheet data
• Dealing with client account queries
• Processing new starter packs
• Recording staff numbers and leavers
• Processing timesheets
• Dealing with timesheet queries

Previous experience of working in payroll is beneficial but not essential.  The successful candidate must be comfortable working on excel and be able to demonstrate strong administrative and numerical skills.

A service organisation based in Central Bristol is currently recruiting a Management Accountant to join them for approximately 6 months.

Covering maternity, the position will report into the Finance Director and work in accounts team of four others.

Duties will include:

• Variance reporting
• Cash management of project companies
• Forecasting and budgeting
• Assist with statutory accounts
• VAT returns
• Support investor reporting
• Provide day to day management of the Bookkeeper

Previous experience of working in a previous management/financial accounting role is essential.  The successful candidate will also ideally hold a professional accountancy qualification.

A financial services organisation based in Warmley is currently recruiting a Finance Assistant to join them on a 12-month basis.

To cover maternity and to start as soon as possible, this role would suit someone who enjoys the investigative nature of data and numbers and assisting with decision making around financial results.

Duties will include:

• Monthly reporting on loan management and investor updates
• Recording transactional accounting entries
• Analyse customer loans against budgets
• Setting up payments
• Reporting on contract changes
• Chasing overdue payments
• Negotiating payment plans
• Drawing up and producing loan agreements

Previous experience of working within a financial/accounting environment is essential. The successful candidate must be proficient on excel and comfortable dealing with people over the phone.

A service organisation based in central Bristol is currently recruiting an Accounts Assistant to join their team.

Working for a company that operates all over the world and within a position that offers study support if desired, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Ledger and margin analysis
• Reconcile nominal ledger
• Processing payments
• Option to progress through the business and take on management accounts
• Invoicing
• Responsible for your own portfolio of clients
• Dealing with client queries
• Match internal rates to invoices received

Previous experience of working within an accounts team is essential.  The successful candidate must also be a strong communicator and proficient on Excel.

A financial services organisation in Bath is currently recruiting a Sales Support Manager to join their team.

Working for a market leader within its field, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this sector.

Duties will include:
• Mentor and oversee Sales Support and Payouts teams
• Develop effective external relationships
• Run credit/land registry searches
• Contact brokers to establish credit approval and compile packages for underwriting team
• Assist and help grow customer base
• Chase and follow up accepted proposals
• Ensure customer account records are kept up to date
• Ensure relevant legislation and guidance is adhered to
• Maintain a commercial view to all proposals and advise accordingly

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate strong leadership skills and have worked within a customer service-based role previously. Knowledge of asset finance is advantageous.

A service organisation based in Frome is currently recruiting a Portuguese-speaking Administrator to join their team.

This is a newly created role working for a growing, ambitious organisation and will give the successful candidate the opportunity to occasionally travel off site and abroad to meet the organisations’ clients.

Duties will include:

• Stock reporting for designated countries and customers
• Review, amend and format site inspection reports
• Read and review internal audit reports
• Ensure all electronic files are allocated appropriately
• Provide regular reports to bank and customers
• Specific country administration including HR, legal and accounting

A high level of both written and verbal Portuguese language skills are essential.  The successful candidate must also possess strong administration skills and be able to organise and communicate effectively.

An SME based in Tewkesbury is currently recruiting a Financial Controller to join their team.

This is a newly created role due to growth and a re-evaluation of the finance department and the role it plays with the wider strategic/operational functions of the business.

Duties will include:

• Managing and mentoring a team
• Providing month end analysis and commentary of results to senior stakeholders within the business
• Costing and KPI reporting
• Production of management accounts
• Assisting with year-end accounts and the audit trail
• Cashflow analysis and reporting
• Project accounting

Previous experience of working within a similar role is essential.  The successful candidate will ideally be qualified and have an SME background.  Strong analysis/excel skills also required.

A public sector organisation based in central Bath is currently recruiting a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join their team.

Working for an ethics-first company that promotes employees well-being within the workplace, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within purchase ledger

Duties will include:

• Coding and matching invoices
• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Posting journals
• Dealing with queries
• Processing invoices
• Data entry

Previous purchase ledger experience is essential.  The successful candidate must also be proficient on Excel and other Microsoft Office products