ASHLEY REES
ASSOCIATES Finance & Accountancy Recruitment Specialists

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 service organisation in Wells is currently recruiting a Bookkeeper to join their team on a 20-30 hour a week basis.

Working for a well-known local business that is expanding, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Accounts preparation
• P&L statements
• VAT returns
• Dealing with client queries
• Assisting with personal tax returns
• Other ad hoc bookkeeping tasks

Previous experience of working in an accounts department is essential.  The successful candidate must also be a confident communicator and ideally have used Xero software

A financial services organisation in Bath is currently recruiting an Accounts Assistant to join their team.

Working for a growing business that offers flexible working hours and great benefits, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Bank reconciliations
• Cashflow forecasting
• Process Direct Debits
• Process invoices
• Monitor the accounts inbox and action accordingly
• Support Group finance with financial analysis

Previous experience of working in an accounts team is essential.  The successful candidate will also be able to demonstrate they are a good team player and are proficient on excel.

A service organisation based in Stroud are currently recruiting a Bookkeeper to join their team.

Working for a well-established SME, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to secure a long-term role. 

Duties will include:

• Bank reconciliations
• Journals, accruals and pre-payments
• VAT returns
• Purchase ledger
• Sales ledger
• Dealing with invoice queries
• Assisting the Finance Director with ad hoc tasks

The successful candidate must have previous experience of working within an accounts department and must be comfortable sing Excel.

A service organisation in Wells is currently recruiting a Bookkeeper to join their team.

Working for a well-known local business that is expanding, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Accounts preparation
• P&L statements
• VAT returns
• Dealing with client queries
• Assisting with personal tax returns
• Other ad hoc bookkeeping tasks

Previous experience of working in an accounts department is essential.  The successful candidate must also be a confident communicator and ideally have used Xero software

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 based in central Bristol is currently recruiting a Senior Accountant to join their team.

This role is working for an ambitious, growing Practice who welcome individuals to challenge and develop themselves within a supportive working environment.

Duties will include:
• To produce to a high level client work to include, completion of statutory accounts, consolidated accounts, management accounts, tax computation, VAT returns, payroll and general advice to the client in respect of UK Companies and Partnerships.
• To provide technical assistance to members of staff in the accounting services department.
• To keep up to date with any changes in accounting regulations and ensure clients are made aware of the impact of these.
• To assist the Directors in the monitoring of outstanding client work and to ensure work is completed by the accounting services team in a timely manner.
• To assist in the identification and implementation of improved working processes.
• To ensure the work processes are documented and kept up to date to ICAEW quality assurance levels.

The successful candidate will have previous experience of working within a Practice including producing a full set of accounts and both personal and corporate tax computations.

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

Working for an innovative and interesting company that promotes ideas and self-development, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:
• Overseeing and mentor a transactional team
• Prepare and review management accounts
• Produce reports and financial statements from the balance sheet
• Assist with month end analysis
• Review and check accounts before sign off
• Assist with any senior ad hoc project accounting work

The successful candidate will have previous supervisory experience and possess strong analytical skills.

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

Working for a well-established and highly reputable business, 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 Gloucester is currently recruiting an Accounts Assistant to join their team.

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

Duties will include:
• Sales and purchase ledger
• Bank reconciliations
• Assist with the preparation of management accounts
• Calculating commissions
• Updating the accounts diary
• Updating daily reports for the senior team
• Support other members of the finance team

Previous experience of working in an account’s role is essential. The successful candidate must also be comfortable using excel.

A retail organisation based in north Bristol is currently recruiting a Credit Controller to join their team.

Working for a fast-moving company that is growing, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to enhance their experience within this field.

Duties will include:
• Chasing overdue payments over the phone and following up via email and written correspondence
• Allocating cash
• Processing sales invoices
• Advising on overdue accounts
• Assisting with setting credit limits
• Dealing with queries

Previous credit control experience is essential as well as excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

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

Working for a multi-national business in a newly created role, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field as study support can also be provided.

Duties will include:
• Reviewing month end management accounts with the Finance Manager
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Reconciling accounts of European subsidiaries
• Liaising with overseas Finance Managers
• Journals accruals and pre-payments
• Ad hoc project accounting
• Assisting with year end accounting and the audit trail

Previous experience of taking accounts up to trial balance is essential. The successful candidate must be able to communicate effectively and be proficient on Excel

A service organisation based in Gloucester is currently recruiting a Management Accountant to join their team.

This role requires someone to take ownership of a section of the organisations main revenue stream so represents an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Variance analysis
• KPI reporting
• Month end reporting
• Profit & loss statements
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Analysis and reporting of financial statements and management accounts

The successful candidate will have previous experience of producing management accounts. Strong communication and IT skills are also essential.

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

This is a newly created role due to organisational growth and with the potential to build and recruit a team, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:
• Bring the accounts department in-house, utilising current Sage package
• Produce management accounts
• Month end reporting
• VAT returns
• General ledger management
• Provide analysis and commentary of financial results to Senior Stakeholders
• Payroll
• Financial and statutory accounts

The successful candidate will ideally hold a professional accountancy qualification. Sage experience and the ability to demonstrate string leadership skills is essential.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.