Accounts Assistant
Yeovil | Hybrid (4 days in office) | £27,000 – £33,000 per annum

Looking for a finance role where you can learn, grow and make a real difference?

The Opportunity
Right Pear is partnering with an established Yeovil-based business to recruit an Accounts Assistant into its finance team on a permanent, full-time basis.

The business is going through an exciting period of investment and development, including a review of how its finance function works and where processes can be improved. That makes this a great time to join. You’ll be part of a small, supportive team with access to experienced senior finance professionals, and you’ll have the chance to shape how things are done rather than just follow a set routine.

This role suits someone early in their finance career who has a solid technical foundation and wants to keep building on it.

The Role
You’ll support the day-to-day running of the finance function, working closely with the wider finance team.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Processing and posting transactions accurately in the accounting system
• Preparing and reviewing reconciliations, including balance sheet reconciliations
• Supporting month-end processes and the preparation of management information
• Building and maintaining Excel workbooks, with linked worksheets and formula-driven reporting
• Checking work carefully for accuracy and resolving discrepancies
• Following structured finance processes and suggesting ways to improve them
• Helping the business make better use of its systems and data as the finance function develops

About You
We’re keen to speak with detail-focused finance professionals who enjoy getting things right and want to grow their careers.

You’ll ideally have:

• AAT qualified or an equivalent background.
• Experience using Xero (Sage 50 experience is also useful)
• Strong Excel skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good verbal communication skills and confidence working with colleagues across the business
• The ability to commute to Yeovil four days a week

The Package

• £27,000 - £33,000 per annum
• Hybrid working: 4 days in the Yeovil office, 1 day from home
• Enhanced Pension contribution + additional benefits available on request
• Some flexibility around school drop-off and pick-up, with an early finish on a Friday
• On-site parking
• The chance to develop within a finance function that is being built for the future

Why Apply?
This is a genuine opportunity to grow your finance career in a business that is investing in its team and processes. You’ll gain broad, hands-on experience, learn from experienced finance professionals, and have real input into how the function improves.

Title: Regional Financial Controller

Location: Newmarket, Suffolk

Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 + benefits + discretional bonus

About The Company

We're retained by a private equity backed, internationally headquartered business with the creation of a new Regional Financial Controller role in the UK.

Operating within the freight-forwarding and logistics space, our client has embarked on a significant growth path fuelled by global strategic acquisitions, including across Europe.

Our client's UK headquarters is Newmarket, Suffolk. Please note - this is a 5 day on-site requirement. 

About The Role

This newly-created role reports into the Global CFO and locally supports the UK GM. 

The Regional Financial Controller will bring an immediate structural rigour to the European operations, with your core focus including:

• directly managing and mentoring local entity accountants
• standardising closing cadences across jurisdictions
• providing financial leadership across the region
• roll out of NetSuite across the entities as part of global ERP transformation
• acting as the strategic conduit between transatlantic operations and the Global HQ executive team

This role requires a unique blend of hands-on controllership authority (driving local close integrity, local GAAP compliance, and cash control across multiple entities) and commercial FP&A capability (variance narratives, and regional rolling forecasts).

About The Candidate

We're not wedded to industry / sector specific candidates in this search.

While a freight forwarding / logistics / distribution background will help, certainly across an international scale, it is not essential.

We're open to the right candidate making a move directly from a mid-to-large accountancy practice, but this will be dependent on your direct experiences, client base and overall communication & stakeholder management exposure during that time.

An ACA / ACCA / ICAEW trained accountant with a few years PQE in industry will likely have the most rounded skill set and ability required to make an immediate impact in this role.

To note again, you will be required to be on-site in Newmarket 5 days. There is the view for this to lighten as your become settled into the role.