Assistant Financial Accountant
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £31,100. Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role is based at the following site; Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Assistant Financial Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in carrying out a range of financial accounting activities to ensure the accuracy of the data underpinning the UKAEA’s Annual Accounts and Monthly Financial Reporting.
Key Accountabilities:
- Post Financial Accounts month end Journals.
- Prepare Balance Sheet Reconciliations and updating the reconciliation control spreadsheet.
- Assist with the management of the UKAEA’s fixed assets, including monthly reconciliations and depreciation, U4BW records, plating, disposals and verification.
- Prepare the monthly payroll reconciliations with U4BW and associated journals and reallocations and assist with payroll year end returns.
- Provide financial administration of the UKAEA’s CycleScheme for employees.
- Assist with preparing information for inclusion in the monthly reporting to the Authority’s sponsoring Government Department, Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and other information requests from DESNZ.
- Monitor and reconcile the authority’s Duty Deferment Account and provide support with import and export procedures.
- Assist with the posting and reconciliation of intercompany transactions.
- Assist with the UKAEA Treasury function, including preparation and processing of Treasury payments, Treasury Receipts and daily funding and completing weekly bank reconciliations.
- Assist with the monthly Construction Industry Tax return, VAT return, and annual Corporation Tax return as required.
- Assist with preparing information for inclusion in the interim and year end reporting to DESNZ
- Test the finance system for updates and upgrades relevant to Financial Accounts including liaising directly with System Admin.
- Assist with Internal Audits as required.
- Assist with a range of monthly and quarterly financial accounts tasks, and with UKAEA’s interim and year end Annual Accounts and Audit.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Full or part qualified AAT or similar.
- Experience using an accounting ERP system (U4BW, Oracle, SAP, Sage).
- Strong time management skills including the ability to prioritise the workload.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Good attention to detail.
- Ability to work as a team player & under their own initiative.
- Proficient in Excel (intermediate level – basic formulas, vlookups, pivot tables etc.).
- Flexibility.
- Financial Accounting Experience.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/.
We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi British, and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.
