Accounts Assistant Placement

About Wessex Staffing Solutions:

Walk-ins are welcome Monday through Friday, 8 to 4. Family owned and operated since 1990.

The internship:

Part-time remote role, 4 to 6 hours a day. You need to be careful, consistent and good with Excel. Remote within the UK. The team meets in London once a quarter, travel covered. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Responsibilities:

• Reconcile bank statements with the books every week
• Update the fixed asset register
• Help prepare the trial balance and supporting schedules for month-end close
• Process expense claims after checking bills and approvals
• Support internal and statutory audit requests from the auditors

Requirements:

• Eligible to work in the UK
• Available for the full internship period
• Accurate and patient with repetitive data entry
• Able to keep financial data strictly confidential
• Working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping and basic journal entries
• Available 20 to 30 hours a week for at least 4 months
• Laptop and stable internet. Some tools need a Windows machine

What you'll learn:

• Strong Excel habits for accounting work
• Month-end close and audit preparation from start to finish

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: £12,000-£14,000 per annum

Perks:

• Laptop provided
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement
• Reference on completion

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Wessex Staffing Solutions Ltd.