Luxury Retailer 4-Month Contract (Potential to Go Permanent) Full-Time 4 Days in Office A leading luxury retailer is looking for an immediately available, part-qualified Assistant Financial Accountant to join its finance team on an initial 4-month contract, with strong potential to become permanent. This is a great opportunity to gain broad exposure, take on real responsibility, and make an impact within a small, supportive team. Key Responsibilities Act as the first point of contact for day-to-day finance queries. Post journals, maintain accurate financial records, and support month-end close. Draft payroll amendments and support Auto-Enrolment compliance (processing outsourced). Manage the Purchase Order process, Fixed Asset Register, and Balance Sheet reconciliations. Assist with management accounts, internal reporting, variance analysis, VAT return drafts, budgets, and forecasts. Support e-commerce/POS data integrity and help build PowerBI dashboards. Process AP invoices, prepare payments, and reconcile supplier statements. Generate customer invoices, manage AR collections, resolve discrepancies, and prepare ageing reports. Assist with onboarding/offboarding payroll tasks, holiday accruals, P11Ds, and PSA. What We re Looking For Part-qualified and actively studying toward CIMA (or similar). Experience in financial accounting with strong reconciliation skills. Familiarity with Xero and retail finance systems; strong Excel skills. Good understanding of UK GAAP, with ex