Accounts Assistant

### Posting ID
PIP12083

On behalf of the Intellectual Property Office, we are looking for an Accounts Assistant (Inside IR35) for a 12 month contract based hybrid with 1 day a week office attendance in Newport, Wales.

This role is part time with 16 hours per week.

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trademarks and copyright. Our ambition is to be the best IP office, and we intend to achieve this by:

- Delivering excellent IP services
- Creating a world leading IP environment
- Making the IPO a brilliant place to work

We operate and maintain a clear and accessible intellectual property system in the UK, which encourages innovation and helps the economy and society to benefit from knowledge and ideas. We help people get the right type of protection for their creation or invention.

We are responsible for:

- IPO Policy
- educating businesses and consumers about IP rights and responsibilities
- supporting IP enforcement
- granting UK Patents, trademarks and design rights

We have a small office in the heart of London, but our main office is on the outskirts of Newport, South Wales.

About us - Intellectual Property Office - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

Role Profile:

This role will support the management accounting function by maintaining the integrity of the general ledger, ensuring accurate reconciliations, and assisting with month-end accounting activities. The successful candidate will work closely with a team of finance professionals and play an important role in keeping financial records accurate and up to date.

This is an excellent opportunity for a part-qualified accountant or a qualified-by-experience finance professional looking for a flexible role within a supportive public sector environment.

As an Accounts Assistant, your main responsibilities will be to:

- Maintain and monitor a portfolio of general ledger accounts.
- Perform regular balance sheet reconciliations and investigate discrepancies.
- Prepare and maintain prepayments and accruals schedules.
- Support month-end and year-end close activities.
- Ensure financial transactions are accurately coded and recorded.
- Assist with journal preparation and posting.
- Review financial data for accuracy and completeness.
- Work collaboratively with management accountants and wider finance colleagues.
- Support ongoing financial control and compliance activities.

Essential:

- Experience working within a finance, accounts, or management accounting environment.
- Strong knowledge of general ledger accounting.
- Experience performing account reconciliations.
- Experience processing and maintaining prepayments and accruals.
- Good understanding of month-end financial processes.
- Strong Excel skills, including the ability to analyse and manipulate financial data.
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to manage workload effectively and meet deadlines.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Desirable:

- Experience supporting management accountants.
- Experience within the public sector or government environment.
- Exposure to e5, Workday, or similar ERP finance systems.
- AAT qualified, part-qualified ACCA/CIMA, or qualified by experience (QBE).

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, IPO encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

IPO welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".