Assistant Accountant, Head Office – Group Finance – Leicester

Sytner Group Ltd are presenting a fantastic opportunity to join their Head Office Accounts department as an Assistant Accountant.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, talented and highly motivated individual to join our Head Office accounts team based at Penman Way in Leicester.

The role will report to the Group Accountant and will include the following duties:

• Preparation and analysis of monthly departmental Income Statements
• Preparation and analysis of departmental Forecasts and Budgets
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Finance commission reconciliation and analysis
• Purchase ledger sales ledger and transactional level accounting
• Other adhoc duties as required

Required skills:

• You will have experience of transactional level accounting (accounts payable or accounts receivable)
• You will have a basic understanding of technical accounting including double entry bookkeeping
• You will be proficient within Microsoft Excel
• You will need to be an effective, articulate and confident communicator to all levels of management
• You be a willing and pro-active contributor to the team
• You will be flexible in adjusting to and prioritising business needs
• Experience of using Keyloop is an advantage but not essential
• Automotive industry experience is an advantage but not essential

Why Sytner?

Sytner Group are delighted to provide an industry-leading benefits package.

We are passionate about continuous improvement and building an environment where everyone feels valued, appreciated and able to reach their full potential.

• Enhanced Holiday Entitlement – 33 days inc. bank holidays
• Industry-leading Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay
• Career Development
• Recognition of Long Service every 5 years
• Discounted Car Schemes
• High Street Discounts
• Discounted Gym memberships
• Cycle to work scheme
• One day a year paid voluntary / community work

At Sytner, our values and the way we behave are important to us. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual\’s unique contribution, supporting our colleagues to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We are committed to creating an equitable environment and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

As part of our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, you have the right to ask for changes / adjustments to job interviews and the recruitment process.

For more information around reasonable adjustments and the recruitment process please click here.

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We represent over 23 of the world\’s most prestige vehicle brands, across our 140 UK dealerships.

We pride ourselves on ‘Developing Talent and ‘Building Careers’ and our colleagues recently scored Sytner Group an outstanding 89% on our colleague engagement survey.