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Assistant Accountant
Salary: £29,000 - £39,000 dependant on experience plus car allowance and other Veolia benefits
Hours: 40 hours per week
Location:Hybrid working 2-3 days in our Marchwood office (with some travel to other Veolia sites)
When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources, and help it become a better place for everyone. It's why we're looking for someone who's just as committed as we are, to push for genuine change and bring our ambition of Ecological Transformation to life.
We know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
What we can offer you:
- 25 days of annual leave
- Access to our company pension scheme
- Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers
- Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to
- One paid days leave every year to volunteer and support your community
- Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
- Stream - Employee financial wellbeing support: early access to your earned pay, savings, budgeting, financial coaching & rewards.
What you'll be doing:
The Assistant Accountant plays a vital supporting role in financial reporting, analysis, and accounting operations for the assigned business area. This role assists in the timely and accurate preparation of accounts, reconciliations, financial reporting, and analysis to enable effective decision-making.
You'll work closely with the relevant Accountant, Administrators, Managers, and Finance teams to ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures, proper recording of transactions, and effective financial controls.
- Assist in the timely and accurate production of management accounts, reconciliations and/or statutory accounts to enable appropriate decision making
- Analyse financial figures and operational KPIs, identifying variances and reporting performance against forecasts
- Utilise systems like Workday, PowerBI, Adaptive Planning as directed
- Plan and manage your own workload in alignment with the accounting timetable and ad hoc requests
- Provide basic advice to administrators on finance matters when requested
- Assist in auditing processes to ensure compliance with policies/procedures
- Work with management to provide financial information like costs, budgets, forecasts as needed
- Support data collection, organisation, and basic analysis of environmental KPIs and financial performance of green initiatives
- Aid in incorporating environmental considerations into routine financial processes, including budgeting and forecasting
What we're looking for:
- We welcome applications from candidates who are part-qualified professionals progressing towards their final qualification level (CIMA/ACCA/ACA or equivalent),
- Experience with accountancy systems including WorkDay & Adaptive Capex
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail Strong analytical and numerical skills
- Effective communication and relationship management abilities
- Time management and organised approach
- IT proficiency
What’s next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
We're proud to have been named as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for three consecutive years in 2023, 2024 and 2025. This consistent recognition reflects our commitment to our people, demonstrating that Veolia is not just transforming the environment, we're also transforming what it means to have a rewarding, purposeful career.
We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your application journey, offering adjustments where reasonable and appropriate. As a proud Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who opt-in to the Disability Confident scheme, and meet the minimum criteria for our roles.
We're also committed to ensuring that all applicants and colleagues receive fair treatment without discrimination on any grounds, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Skills Required
- Part-qualified (CIMA/ACCA/ACA or equivalent) progressing towards final qualification
- Experience with accountancy systems including Workday
- Experience with Adaptive Planning / Adaptive Capex
- Experience using Power BI
- Excellent accuracy, attention to detail, and strong analytical and numerical skills
- Effective communication and relationship management abilities
- Time management, organised approach and IT proficiency
What We Do
Veolia UK provides solutions for ecological transformation. We are a company of almost 14,000 employees, although we prefer to think of ourselves as “resourcers”. Every day across the country our “resourcers” design and deploy useful and concrete solutions, which help our customers fight against climate change, prevent pollution of our water and create a circular economy where nothing goes to waste. Every year, we serve around 1.8 million people through our municipal wastewater contracts. We complete over 400 million waste collections across our Local Authority contracts, serving over 3 million residential properties; and we treat over 1.5 million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste from our 85,000 private customers. We also produce over 560 MWe of renewable and low carbon electricity, to power over 1.3 million homes. Veolia UK is an exciting and innovative place to work, but don't just take our word for it - we were named as one of the top 10 'Very Big Organisations' to work for in The Sunday Times' Best Places to Work 2024. We're resourcing the world through our purpose of ecological transformation, and we're doing this by working together to constantly progress. We are reinventing the way things work to reduce our environmental impact and increase efficiency, whether in the reuse of wastewater or the recovery of waste, such as plastics. At the same time, we anticipate the needs of tomorrow with innovative solutions that will decarbonise our energy and heating demands. We do this through the development of microgrids and energy management through our Hubgrade solution, which optimises the management of resources using digital and artificial intelligence. We are driven by optimism and passion, not to see the world as it is, but how it should be; and we are tenacious in our efforts to achieve our goals. These aren't just empty words
