We’re looking for an Assistant Accountant to join our Financial Reporting and Control team in Birchwood. This is a great opportunity to build your accounting career in a collaborative environment, gaining experience across financial reporting, treasury, and cash flow.
In this role, you’ll support accurate financial reporting, statutory compliance, and treasury activities across UK and Irish entities. Working closely with the rest of the team, you’ll help ensure financial data is reliable and delivered on time, while developing towards ownership of key accounting areas.
What you’ll get
Salary c.£35,000 depending on experience
Hybrid working (Birchwood-based)
Broad exposure across finance and reporting
Opportunities for progression and development, including supported study
A supportive, collaborative team environment
What you’ll be doing
Supporting VAT returns, statutory reporting, and audit activities
Assisting with payments, bank reconciliations, and cash flow forecasting
Maintaining balance sheet reconciliations and supporting month-end
Supporting fixed asset accounting and financial controls
Contributing to reporting, system improvements, and ad-hoc analysis
What we’re looking for
Experience in a finance or accounting role (e.g. Assistant Accountant, AP/AR, Treasury)
Exposure to month-end or financial processes
Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
Good Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups)
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement
Willingness to learn and develop accounting expertise
Desirable:
Experience with SAP, treasury, or cash flow
Progress towards an accounting qualification (AAT, ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
If you’re looking to grow your career in finance and gain hands-on experience in a varied and supportive role, we’d love to hear from you.
With the strength of our brands behind you, a culture of high-performance that motivates you and the freedom to drive your career your way, our shared ambition will inspire you and delight every customer. Our future. In your hands. Apply now.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion helps ensure the ideas, perspectives and experiences of all colleagues supports a culture of learning and attracts world-class talent. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and candidates will be equally assessed and selected based on objective criteria. We reserve the right to close this role prior to the advertised closing date should a suitable applicant be found.
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Skills Required
- Experience in a finance or accounting role (e.g. Assistant Accountant, AP/AR, Treasury)
- Exposure to month-end or financial processes
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
- Good Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups)
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement
- Willingness to learn and develop accounting expertise
- Experience with SAP, treasury, or cash flow
- Progress towards an accounting qualification (AAT, ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
What We Do
Established in 1984, Haier Group is a world-leading provider of solutions to better life. Focusing on user experience, Haier has been included on the list of BrandZ™ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands for two consecutive years as the world’s first and only IoT ecosystem brand. Haier has topped Global Major Appliances Brand Rankings by Euromonitor International for 12 consecutive years. Its subsidiary Haier Smart Home is among the list of Global 500 of Fortune. To date, Haier Group owns three listed companies, has seven global brands such as Haier, Casarte, Leader, GE Appliances, Fisher & Paykel, AQUA and Candy. It has successfully incubated 5 unicorn companies and 41 gazelle companies. Moreover, Haier has established 10+N innovation ecosystems, 28 industrial parks, 122 manufacturing centers and nearly 240,000 sales networks around the globe, it has gone deep into 160 countries and regions globally, serving more than 1 billion users’ families. (Data as of January 2021) Haier Group is committed to working with its world-class ecosystem partners to continuously build premium brand, scenario brand and ecosystem brand, and to set up IoT ecosystems in clothing, food, accommodation, travel, health, elderly care, biomedicine and education, and to tailor personalized smart life for users around the globe. 海尔集团创立于1984年，是全球领先的美好生活解决方案服务商。海尔始终以用户体验为中心，连续2年作为全球唯一物联网生态品牌蝉联BrandZ™全球百强，连续12年稳居欧睿国际世界家电第一品牌，旗下子公司海尔智家位列《财富》世界500强。海尔集团拥有3家上市公司，拥有海尔Haier、卡萨帝Casarte、Leader、GE Appliances、Fisher & Paykel、AQUA、Candy七大全球化品牌，成功孵化5家独角兽企业和41家瞪羚企业，在全球构建了10+N创新生态体系，设立了28个工业园、122个制造中心和24万个销售网络，深入全球160个国家和地区，服务全球10亿+用户家庭。（数据截至2021年1月） 海尔集团致力于携手全球一流生态合作方持续建设高端品牌、场景品牌与生态品牌，构建衣食住行康养医教等物联网生态圈，为全球用户定制个性化的智慧生活。
