Assistant Accountant - Temporary

1. Job Details

Job Title: Assistant Financial Accountant Department: Finance Location & region: Ashby-de-la-Zouch Business Unit & Global Recharge Code: CEVA A&O Ireland Limited Date: July 2026

1. Job Purpose This role assists in producing accounting information required to satisfy Management, Group and Legal reporting requirements. This includes cashbook postings, bank reconciliations, posting journals, balance sheet reconciliations and intercompany for our Air & Ocean Ireland entity predominantly. There will also be the opportunity for the occupant of this role to take on additional tasks in both this entity and the UK entity, work on adhoc projects and expand their experience in a high-volume, fast-moving business.

Primary purpose of the role – briefly describe in one or two sentences why the job exists:

1. Key Accountabilities

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Bank Transactions

Daily cashbook postings of receipts and investigate open items

Daily cashbook postings of payments including Direct Debits

Monthly bank reconciliations for 3 bank accounts of different currencies.

Set up the payroll payments

Applying cash receipts to the appropriate customer invoice

Month end accounting

Open/close periods in Hermes

Monitor and investigate interface issues between Cargowise and Hermes

Analysis of the overheads within the P&L.

Post month end journals for accruals, prepayments

Payroll analysis and post the monthly payroll journal

Fixed assets – post monthly depreciation and update the FAR

Intercompany reports and monitoring

Other

Provide bi-monthly VAT reports to external accountants

Post the VAT journal

Provide audit information where requested

Adhoc projects

This role exists in an entity acquired by CEVA which is currently being integrated, meaning there will be significant change over the coming year. This may provide opportunity to be involved in the business transformation.

1. Organizational Context

How the role fits into the team, department or business unit – attach an organization chart which shows manager, peers and direct reports of the role. In addition complete the following detail: Manager(s) job title: Financial Accounting manager Finance Manager – based in Hounslow Number of direct reports to this role – None n/a Total employees managed to this role n/a ‘Dotted’ line reports to this role n/a

1. Key Working Relationships

This role sits within our Freight – Air and Ocean accounting team, who are spread across Ashby, Hounslow and Ireland.

This role requires interaction with the Accounts payable team in relation to supplier invoices and payments and intercompany balances.

There will also be interaction with our O2C team in relation to customer receipts and cash allocation.

You will also have regular communication with the Branch manager in Ireland.

The role is currently hybrid with 3 days per week in the Ashby office and 2 days remotely. There will be daily interaction with other members of the Financial Accounting Team, the bulk of whom are located in Ashby, but work on different products/entities.

The most significant and most common working relationships relating to the role. Detail the nature of the relationship and the frequency of the interaction:

1. Knowledge, Experience & Skills

The knowledge, experience and skills required to undertake the level at a fully competent level:

Essential Desirable Education & Qualifications Studying or qualified AAT Currently studying ACCA or ACA Experience Experience in a similar role

Posting journals Posting bank transactions Bank reconciliations Month end reporting Balance Sheet reconciliations

Experience of problem solving

Experience of audits

Specialist Knowledge & Skills Proficient in the use of excel Knowledge of JDE, Hermes, Cargowise Experience using employee expenses systems Interpersonal & Communication Skills Ability to communicate and build working relationships with individuals within the business at all levels

1. Other Information

Any additional information necessary to fully describe the role:

The role will be based in Ashby and is currently hybrid with 3 days a week required in the office. Occasional travel to Hounslow may be required.

40 hours per week – 8.30am to 5.30am with an hour for lunch as standard but a little flex in that.