Project Accountant

Project Accountant, Project accounting, Cost Accountant small friendly team, Bedford, to £35,000

Abacus Consulting are proud to be partnering a successful Events and Marketing SME business on the outskirts of Bedford. They have been established for over 40 years and have a niche client base, whom are very loyal.
My client is keen to secure a new permanent team member as soon as possible. Keen to secure an AAT qualified Accountant or PQ Project Accountant. Working as part of a small finance team, your duties as the Project Accountant includes the management of Project Schedules, Monitoring Budgets, coordinating all associated costs and reporting these findings to the senior Management team.
Your experience should include:

• Set Projects and job costings on Finance Systems
• Project Accounting analysis & Cost Centre Control – Active tracking
• Client Reporting – Internal & External
• Strong analytical & Problem solving skills
• You will process driven, Able to challenge the status Quo 
• Self-Motivated, able to plan & forecast to hit targets & deadlines
• Able to work well in a team environment

The ideal candidate will have 5 years + finance experience in SME business. AAT Qualified, Part Qualified or QBE. You must be a self starter with good Excel and IT skills. Modern/open plan offices. This is an Office based role 3 days per week, with 2 days Working remotely. Excellent company benefits.

Accounts Receivable Clerk – Welwyn Garden City

Accounts Receivable Clerk, busy hands on role in a small friendly team, Welwyn Garden City, up to £28k

The local and established business are seeking an Accounts Receivable Clerk to work within their efficient finance department.

You will ideally have worked in the Hotel or Care home sector.

The position is interim to permanent. An enhanced DBS and security checks will need to be completed before becoming a permanent team member. As the Accounts Receivable Clerk, your responsibilities will include:

• Raising and issuing daily and weekly sales ledger invoices
• Collating customer purchase orders for inclusion on customer invoices
• Liaising with colleagues to ensure all customer invoicing requirements are met
• Reconciling invoice activity to ensure all work has been invoiced
• Investigating queries

This role is suited to a candidate who has sales ledger experience, who is able to work to deadlines and manage priorities whilst working under their own initiative and displays a positive attitude with confident communication skills. Solid Excel and Sage would be an advantage.

Accounts Payable Clerk – Bedford

Temporary Accounts Payable Clerk, high volume hands on role, 6 months £13 per hour, Bedford

Our client, a well-established business in the Bedford area, have a need for an experienced Accounts Payable & Expenses Clerk to join their head office finance team.

This is a 6 month FTC looking for someone ASAP.

Working in a busy and fast paced finance team, your duties as Accounts Payable Clerk will include:

• Posting invoices
• Expenses
• Reconciling supplier statements
• Dealing with finance queries
• Payment runs
• Finance administration
• Support to business as needed

The ideal candidate for the Accounts Payable Clerk opportunity will have 2-3 years purchase ledger experience, be confident working as part of a team, building relationships at all levels and working to deadlines. You will be confident posting invoices, reconciling statements, working as part of a team and handling queries. Great role working for a highly successful business.

Group Financial Accountant – Milton Keynes

Group Financial Accountant, Qualified role for an Established Services Company, Milton Keynes up to £60,000+ Hybrid working

Our client is seeking a progressive, qualified accountant who has a passion for data, someone who can take complex, multiple source data sets, collect, model and analyse them effectively to extract insights, and then be able to interpret and summarise findings in a way that is appropriate for the audience.

Working for an established professional services company with excellent career progression. the Group Accountant will form part of the Group Finance team.  Your role will involve supporting a broad range of financial reporting, accounting, budgeting, tax, analysis, and treasury tasks.  The role will have interaction across the group and is an ideally positioned for progression up to division FC and onto FD.  Initial responsibilities in your role as the Group Financial Accountant will include:

• Help with the preparation of Group full-year and interim financial statements
• Help coordinate and manage the annual budgeting process for central companies, with the preparation of the consolidated budget
• Review of all central management accounts
• Support the preparation of central and consolidated forecasts
• Co-ordinate the preparation of Group board presentations
• Administration of the treasury of the Group
• Review of balance sheet reconciliations
• Assist in the payroll of the Group
• Interaction with subsidiary Finance Directors and their teams within the overall group finance department, all based in MK
• Continually review systems and processes to ensure that they are robust and operate to the highest practical levels of efficiency and effectiveness.
• Group wide initiatives – Project work

As you would expect, this role requires effective people and communication skills in person, online and written. Confidence at an intermediate level or above in MS Excel, with strong Word, PowerPoint, and other applications. Knowledge of Power Bi and its application would be an advantage.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ACA or ACCA-qualified professional seeking to progress their career. Working closely with the Group Subsidiary Finance Directors and their teams.

Financial Reporting Analyst – North Bedfordshire

Financial Reporting Analyst, progressive, ACCA/CIMA part qualified role, Bedfordshire, to £46,000 + study

We’re proud to be partnering with a world class business who have a need for a Financial Reporting Analyst to join the team at their offices in Bedfordshire. Working as part of a team in a fast paced environment, your duties as the Financial Reporting Analyst will include:

• Reporting on Actual v Budget
• Balance sheet recs
• P&L analysis
• Fixed Assets
• Audit
• VAT/Tax
• Treasury

The ideal candidate will be CIMA or ACCA qualified, working towards their qualification, or qualified by experience. This is a great role offering study support and career progression.

Key Tasks:

• Assist Financial Management with treasury, corporate tax, VAT and all International and statutory reporting.
• Ensure that actual vs. budgets are monitored and controlled.
• Ensure that all financial transactions are recorded in line with IFRS.
• Provide support to the operational teams with Profit and Loss analysis
• Reconcile all balance sheet accounts accurately on a monthly basis.
• Production of monthly, quarterly and annual management reports.
• Assist with the internal and external audit process

Audit Senior – Luton

Audit Senior, well established and growing Accountancy Practice, Luton, to £45,000

A newly created opportunity for a finalist or newly qualified Accountant with previous experience working in the Profession to join a well established and growing local firm.  As the Audit Senior, you will be conducting a variety of accounting and audit tasks to a range of clients in this very broad based role, encompassing the following:

Accounting

• Prepare management accounts
• Utilise junior staff on more simple assignments and oversee their work standard
• Support trainees and help with development of knowledge and skills
• Review annual accounts prepared by juniors
• Finalise accounts

Audit

• Complete planning documentation so that audits are carried out effectively
• Perform the role of the senior representative on site and conduct all relationships with the client in a professional manner
• Utilise and plan junior staff effectively and oversee their work standard
• Review/finish audit file to the appropriate standard, suitable for manager review

Tax

• Deal with complex business tax computations, including corporation tax
• Prepare personal tax returns for manager/director review.

If you are looking for a progressive move where you can develop your career in the long term in line with the growth of the Practice, please apply with a copy of your current CV as soon as possible to secure an early interview.

Credit Controller – Welwyn Garden City

Credit Controller, 4 months+ Temporary assignment, £12.50 per hour+ Holiday, Welwyn Garden City.

Our client based in Welwyn Garden City is keen to secure a number of interim Credit Control Clerks to work as part of their team on an ongoing interim contract.

As the Credit Controller, you will be responsible for your own ledger, which will entail high volume calling, chasing differing values of money. Ideally you would have gained previous credit control experience in a shared service centre or head office environment, working to KPIs and targets, and be able to work using your own initiative. However, training will be provided.

In return for your expertise in dealing effectively with workloads in a busy, and sometimes pressurised team, our client offers an excellent working environment, on-site parking and career development with the possibility of a longer term contract.

If you would like to be considered for this role, please contact us today.

Payroll Specialist – Milton Keynes

Payroll Specialist, busy head office in Milton Keynes, to £30,000

My client is a well-established and highly successful business operating throughout the UK. The role is based at their MK office, 1 day a week working from home/rest of week office based.

Working in a busy and fast paced environment your duties as Payroll Specialist will include:

• Start to finish payroll processing
• Allocating work and checking before submission
• Contacting clients by phone and email on a daily basis from an account management perspective and to deal with any issues/queries
• Inputting data onto multiple workflow systems and payroll systems
• Ensuring employee details are 100% correct at all times
• HMRC submission 

The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years payroll experience and be studying for CIPP. You will be detail oriented, customer focused, and solutions driven. If you are an experienced payroller open for a new role in Milton Keynes please apply ASAP!

Insurance Renewal Account Executive – Team Leader

Insurance Renewals Account Executive – Team Leader, experienced commercial Insurance Broker, Milton Keynes, £55,000

The person we are looking for is a very capable and experienced commercial insurance broker, a team leader that understand their teams needs and how to get the best out of them with a consultative approach, role models behaviours and how to achieve results through their working style, has great success in retaining and developing relationships with our customers. Creating confidence and trust in what and how you work, as the Insurance Renewal Account Executive, you will:

• Work with your team to ensure that we respond promptly to client queries and ensure that all communications with customers and/or insurers, or other relevant business contacts are accurately recorded through our Acturis system.
• Enable your team to confidently and with knowledge, advise customers on the policy cover, terms and conditions, deal with claims and ensure that the customer understands the effect of breach of onerous conditions or requirements.
• Encourage and enable your team to deal with new business and renewals arising from customer contact, giving them appropriate support and help to achieve key objectives and targets.
• Review proposals and make recommendations for insurance cover based on information gathered from customer, using your knowledge and expertise to ensure we provide a consistently, high quality brokering service.

Skills and experience

• Demonstrable success providing telephone and face to face-based advice for commercial insurance brokering customers.
• Able to show success in retention of customers, within commercial insurance renewals environment.
• Project a professional and competent image, with an engaging and friendly manner, over the telephone and face to face
• To be able to manage high volumes of enquiries professionally and with timely actions
• Able to plan, deliver and review your renewals plans, and oversee your teams to ensure that customers’ needs are met
• Role model strong relationship building, influencing and team building skills.
• Experience of successfully leading and managing a commercial insurance – renewals team
• Diploma from CII or above
• Knowledge of Acturis would be an advantage, but understanding of other brokerage system will help. Training will be given

Payroller – Luton

Payroller, All-Round hands on role, Luton, up to £32,000

My client, a progressive and solutions driven business, have a need for an experienced Payroller to join the team at their Luton offices. This is a permanent full time role; office based every day.

Duties will include:

• Managing and processing multiple payrolls
• Allocating work and checking before submission
• Contacting clients by phone and email on a daily basis from an account management perspective and to deal with any issues/queries
• Inputting data onto multiple workflow systems and payroll systems

Must have proven start to finish payroll experience, ideally come from a bureau background.