Job Description
Assistant Accountant – Marine Services & Scilly Ferries
- Full-time
- Location: Isles of Scilly
- Department: Finance
- Employment Type: Permanent
- Supporting the Finance Controller with managing day-to-day financial operations of HWMS & Scilly Ferries, including financial reporting; cash flow management; financial planning and analysis; risk management.
- Financial Reporting: produce timely and accurate financial reporting including monthly financial statements, management reports, Board packs, and statutory accounts, ensuring maintenance of supporting reconciliations.
- Financial Planning and Analysis: produce budget and financial forecasts in line with Group requirements, including reporting any variances.
- Accounts Payable and Receivables including invoice processing, vendor payments and customer invoicing.
- Expense Management: Monitor and analyse expenses, identifying cost-saving opportunities and ensuring adherence to budgetary constraints
- Bank Reconciliation: Perform regular bank reconciliations to ensure accuracy in financial records and identify any discrepancies.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- Working towards professional qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).
- At least three years’ experience of working in a busy finance environment
- Excellent understanding of accounting processes and the need for appropriate controls in place.
- Proficient in the use of Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent communication and organisational skills along with a proven ability to meet deadlines in a demanding environment.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise tasks
- Experience in accounting and financial systems
- Direct experience in accounts payable activities.
- 2+ years’ experience within marine services, ferry service or manufacturing
- Experience of working with a ERP system, preferably IFS
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to build effective relationships with other team members as well as outside parties
- Company pension
- Life Assurance
- L&D opportunities
Harland & Wolff, a fast growing shipping and marine engineering business, is looking for an experienced Assistant Accountant to support its Marine Services and Isles of Scilly (IOS) Ferry business.
As part of its five-market, six-service business growth strategy, Harland & Wolff recently commenced its marine services offering under Harland & Wolff (Marine Services) Ltd. (HWMS), HWMS will be focussed on growing and maturing its UK and Europe-wide sea freight, towage and workboat charter offering to its clients in addition to dealing with internal movement of structures and parts between the Group’s yards and client facilities. This new business is expected to grow significantly and provide even greater options across the South-West region, the Isles of Scilly, with the aspiration to have a UK-wide and international presence in due course.
Scilly Ferries, a division of Harland & Wolff Group, is a new ferry service launching in Spring 2024 operating between Penzance and St Mary’s on the Isles of Scilly. Initially in early in 2024 Atlantic Wolff; a modern and comfortable catamaran will be sailing up to twice-a-day, it will operate to and from St Mary’s. HWMS will be the exclusive freight and logistics partner for Scilly Ferries.
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If you experience difficulties or are unable to apply for a role on-line please contact us at people.skills@harland-wolff.com and one of the team will be in contact to help you.
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