Assistant Accountant (Transactional Finance)

Wakefield / South Leeds | £26,000-£32,000 | Study support available

The role that actually takes you somewhere.

Not every "Assistant Accountant" ad is a stepping stone in disguise for a role that goes nowhere. This one genuinely is a stepping stone, and a good one. Our client, an expanding business with real growth plans, wants someone who'll pick up transactional finance duties and use them as a launchpad into management accounts, not get stuck doing purchase ledger forever.

If you're AAT qualified (or working towards it) and want a role that'll actually teach you something rather than just keep you busy, this is worth a proper look.

You'll be:

• Assisting with monthly management accounts and month-end close
• Preparing accruals, prepayments, and journals
• Handling balance sheet reconciliations
• Getting genuine exposure to wider transactional and operational finance work, this isn't siloed

You'll need:

• AAT qualified or part-qualified (study support provided)
• Some transactional finance experience, purchase/sales ledger, credit control, or similar
• Curiosity, the people who do best here are the ones who ask "why" and not just "how"

Why this one's worth your time: this is a role built for progression, not a holding pen, and the businesses investing in training right now are the ones that'll still need people in five years, automation or not.

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