Assistant Financial Accountant

  • JAM Recruitment Ltd
  • Inverkeithing, Fife
  • Jan 21, 2026
Contractor Government

Job Description

Assistant Financial Accountant

Hillend based

25.48 an hour Umbrella Inside IR35 OR 19.06 an hour PAYE

7 Month Contract initially.



This is a great opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading Defence organisations based In Hillend. Full time on site, working from home on Fridays.

Role Description

  • Prepare contract status report (CSR's) for all contracts less than
  • Chair review of these reports with Project management function
  • Raise invoice requests
  • Reconciliations of projects and project closure.
  • Update all deliverable data
  • Run, update and copy over macros
  • Support Project Accounting Manager


Knowledge:

  • Finance experience
  • Awareness SAP
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft suite
  • Continuous improvement drive

Skills:

  • Business Systems experience (SAP/BPC)
  • Commercial awareness beneficial e.g. to support bid process
  • Identifying risks and opportunities on the project

Qualifications:

- (Desirable) Part qualified accountant who is currently studying for professional exams or qualified by experience within a project environment.

- Previous experience may have been as an Accounting Assistant in the Project Job Family or may have experience in financial accounting, financial reporting or management accounting either at the Assistant Accountant level or at Accountant Assistant level

For more information please contact Lauren Morley at JAM Recruitment or click apply.