Assistant Accountant

Location: Cambridge
Salary: £30,000 - £34,000
Job Type: Perm
Sector: Accountancy & Finance
Date Posted: 14 September 2026
Reference: 55929

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Jenni Brown

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About The Role

  • Perm
  • Cambridge
  • £30,000 - £34,000 GBP / Year

The One Group

Are you currently studying CIMA or ACCA and looking for a role that will give you strong exposure to month-end, general ledger accounting and financial reporting?

I’m recruiting for an Assistant Accountant to join a well-established business in Cambridge.

 

This is a great opportunity for someone who is actively studying CIMA or ACCA and progressing well through their qualification, with practical accounting experience and a desire to continue developing within a busy, professional finance environment.

 

You’ll be responsible for a range of accounting and reporting activities, including:

  • Posting general ledger journals and supporting period-end close

  • Preparing balance sheet reconciliations and investigating discrepancies

  • Fixed asset accounting

  • Intercompany accounting and reconciliations

  • Supporting accurate and timely financial reporting

  • Working with other finance teams and the wider business to resolve queries

 

To be considered, you will need to be:

  • Actively studying CIMA or ACCA and progressing well with your studies

  • Experienced within an accounting role with exposure to general ledger and month-end processes

  • Comfortable posting journals and completing balance sheet reconciliations

  • Confident using Excel and finance/ERP systems

  • Able to manage your own workload and work to tight deadlines

  • Analytical, organised and comfortable investigating and resolving discrepancies

  • A confident communicator who can work effectively with finance and non-finance stakeholders

  • Keen to develop your accounting career and continue progressing professionally

 

What’s on offer?

  • Salary up to £35,000 (depending on experience) plus an excellent benefits package

  • Hybrid working – approximately 50% of your week will be office based

  • Up to 40 days holiday per year (inc. bank holidays)

  • Private medical insurance and life insurance

  • Excellent opportunity to continue your professional studies while gaining broader accounting experience

 

If you’re an ambitious part-qualified CIMA or ACCA accountant looking for your next step in Cambridge, I’d love to hear from you.

 

Apply now for further information and a confidential discussion

To apply for this job email your details to jbrown@theonegroup.co.uk

About The ONE Group

The ONE Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy with offices in Cambridge, Peterborough, Northampton, and Hertfordshire.

We recruit across Technology, Engineering & Manufacturing, Scientific, Sales, and Marketing, with consultants who specialise in their sector rather than trying to cover everything. This focused approach allows us to provide deeper market knowledge, stronger networks, and better hiring outcomes for both clients and candidates.

Our expertise spans permanent, contract, and senior-level appointments. Most importantly, the majority of our business comes from repeat clients and referrals, reflecting the long-term relationships we build and the trust we earn through consistently delivering results.

What Happens Next

1

One of our consultants will review your application within one working day.

2

If your experience looks like a fit, we'll be in touch for a quick conversation to understand what you're looking for.

3

From there, we'll talk you through the role properly, prepare you for interview, and stay alongside you through to your start date.

4

Whatever happens with this role, we'll keep your details on file, with your permission, so we can flag other opportunities that suit you.

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

01
Accountancy & Finance
→
 02
Human Resources
→
 03
Commercial Office
Administration, customer service, project management and more
→
 04
Technology
→
 05
Engineering & Manufacturing
→
 06
Scientific
→
 07
Sales, Marketing & Creative
→
 08
Executive Search
Across all of the above
→

Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

Hire with TOG → Looking for a role →
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