Northland Controls is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Assistant Accountant to join our finance team in Letchworth, UK. This role will support financial reporting, project cost control, and month-end processes while ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
This is an exciting opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience, develop your technical accounting skills, and take on increasing responsibility within a supportive and collaborative finance team.
The position is ideally suited to a part-qualified ACCA/CIMA candidate looking to progress their career within a dynamic, project-focused environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate financial reports, records, and general ledger accounts
- Monitor and control project costs, including labour, materials, and overheads
- Track, analyse, and reconcile project expenses against budgets on a weekly and monthly basis
- Prepare accounts receivable (AR) month-end journal entries, financial analyses, and account reconciliations
- Support month-end close processes
- Process sales invoices and credit notes accurately and in a timely manner
- Provide administrative support for accounts receivable activities
- Ensure all reporting and processing deadlines are consistently met
- Respond to financial information requests and assist with audits
- Review financial statements to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Ensure compliance with GAAP and internal financial policies
- Perform project and margin analysis to support business decision-making
- Assist the Finance Manager with management accounting tasks as required
- Carry out additional duties as directed by the Global Finance Manager
About You
- Part-qualified ACCA or CIMA (or actively working towards qualification)
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial processes
- Experience with project accounting or cost tracking is highly desirable
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to meet tight deadlines
- Proficient in Excel and accounting systems
- Effective communication skills and ability to work collaboratively
Why Join Northland
- Work on complex, high-visibility projects with global enterprise clients
- Be part of a growing, fast-paced organization with strong career advancement opportunities
- Contribute to innovative security solutions across data centers, campuses, and global enterprises
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits including healthcare, 401(k), and PTO
Skills Required
- Part-qualified ACCA or CIMA, or actively working toward qualification
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial processes
- Experience with project accounting or cost tracking
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong organizational skills and ability to meet tight deadlines
- Proficiency in Excel and accounting systems
- Effective communication skills and ability to work collaboratively
What We Do
Driven by a Do Whatever It Takes philosophy, Northland Controls designs, installs, manages and harmonizes physical security systems across the globe with unparalleled services. No excuses. We have successfully executed thousands of projects for the world’s most demanding organizations—especially those grappling with rapid worldwide growth. Bound by a unique set of core values, more than 260 highly trained security professionals relentlessly focus on the highest quality integration and complex, security solutions. The values that unite us are: Take on Challenges, Be Honorable, Have Fun, Put People First and Do Whatever It Takes. We believe our core values set us apart in the industry and have helped us grow organically from $1.5 million to $68 million since 2005. We now have two offices in the Silicon Valley, as well as offices in London, Shanghai, Singapore, Bangalore, Washington, DC and Rochester, NY. Northland excels at integrating software and security components together to provide harmonious security, while having the operational expertise to manage these programs. We have built a comprehensive network of heavily vetted system integration partners whose work we hold to the same standard as our own. This equates to hundreds of people available at any given time to respond to our customers’ needs. This year alone, we’ve installed systems in over 70 countries.
