Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant Are you an experienced Assistant Accountant looking for a new opportunity or challenge? We're a great team to work for and would love to hear from you if you have the relevant skills and experience. We are seeking a highly organised, experienced and detail-oriented Assistant Accountant to join our finance team. Working closely with the finance and operational teams, you will play a key role in month-end processes, maintaining financial trackers and monitoring budgets. This is a permanent position and we are looking for someone to work 4 days (28 hours) per week and based at least 2 days per week from our Head Office in Notting Hill, the other two days may be worked from home. To be invited to interview, you must be part-qualified or qualified by experience - ideally within a retail or e-commerce environment - and you must be able to demonstrate the relevant skills to perform what is demanded of the role. You must possess a strong, demonstrable knowledge of the accounting principles and be able to apply them in practice. We will expect you to have a solid understanding of accounting systems and fundamentals such as double-entry, accruals, prepayments, financial statements, posting journals etc, strong Microsoft Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, data analysis etc) and any experience with accounting systems such as Xero will be a distinct advantage. Our ideal candidate will be proactive by nature, have strong numeracy and analytical skills with excellent communication skills, comfortable communicating across all levels of the business. In return we offer a competitive benefits package including a generous product allowance and employee discount, medical healthcare plan, life assurance, enhanced employer contribution pension and 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) as well as an additional day's leave on or around your birthday. Please note we are not able to accept applications from anyone requiring visa sponsorship, or who has less than 2 years remaining on an existing visa. We do not require agency or recruitment company support for this hire. Department Finance & Operations Role Assistant Accountant Locations Studio Head Office Remote status Hybrid Studio Head Office Our Benefits 🏄🏻‍♀️ 33 days paid holiday We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore we offer everybody 33 days paid holiday (including Bank Holidays). 👢 Generous product allowance We want our team to walk in PC and be advocates of the brand so each team member gets between 2-4 pairs of PC boots and/or shoes per year! 💓 Life assurance Offering our employees peace of mind that their named beneficiary will receive 4x the employee’s annual salary should the unthinkable happen. 👩🏻‍⚕️ Healthcare cash plan Helping our employees to cover various healthcare costs such as routine dental and optical care, prescriptions, complementary and alternative therapies; as well as help with getting specialist consultations, diagnostic tests and scans, counseling and health screening etc. 💰 Pension Helping our employees plan for the future, we offer a 5% employer contribution as part of our auto enrol pension scheme. 🛍️ Salary Extras Providing our team with a little extra help to make their salaries go further - Salary Xtras is a web portal offering discounted shopping, holidays, cinema & gym membership etc; cycle2work scheme; travel loans to spread the cost of commuting and an employee assistance service for unlimited access to specialist support e.g. legal and financial advice. 🕺 Regular social & team events We try to get together regularly to celebrate our successes as a team. 🕐 Flexible working hours We value work-life balance highly, therefore we try to be flexible with working hours where possible and many roles operate on a remote or hybrid basis - whatever works best for the individual, team and the company. Workplace Culture We encourage every employee to understand the importance of their contribution to the overall success of the business. Everyone has a role to play and we encourage regular performance reviews to help people to reach their full potential. We all take responsibility for meeting the requirements of our individual and team roles and we don’t shy away from going above and beyond the call of duty when a situation warrants it, or when our colleagues need our help. We acknowledge and respect that we are all different. We aim to build strong personal relationships and we value the different skills and attributes that make up a diverse and effective team. We are all passionate about the areas in which we work and strive to be the best we can be in our individual fields. But that doesn’t come at the cost of stepping on each other to get there. We care about the company and we care about each other and we believe in maintaining a creative, informal, friendly and engaging working environment.