RTR Assistant Accountant

We're Pret, proud makers of freshly made food, organic coffee, and big ideas. We're growing fast on our mission to be the hospitality employer of choice everywhere we operate.

As an RTR Assistant Accountant, you will support the Management Accounts team by ensuring property-related invoices are accurately reviewed and approved, maintaining key property cost records, supporting landlord compliance requirements, and assisting with month-end accounting activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review property-related invoices in a timely and accurate manner, ensuring appropriate supporting documentation and approvals are obtained.
• Maintain accurate records of property costs, including updating invoice tracking schedules and recording the latest billing information to support accrual and prepayment calculations.
• Prepare and issue sales certificates to landlords in accordance with lease requirements and agreed deadlines.
• Manage correspondence relating to turnover rent arrangements, responding to routine queries and coordinating information requests.
• Support the month-end close process through preparation of reconciliations, analysis, and journal support where required.
• Provide administrative and accounting support to the Management Accounts team as required.

Experience and Skills Required:

• Previous experience in an Accounts assistant, Finance assistant, or similar role.
• Comfortable working with high volumes of data.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, confident manipulating data using basic formulas.
• Proactive approach and willingness to learn new processes and systems.

Life at Pret: In the office, our teams come together to collaborate, connect, and bring great ideas to life. You'll find individual ways to grow, diversity and belonging, pace and variety, community and purpose.

The Perks:

• A Gold Card! That means when you're in the office, your food and drinks are on us. And when you're not, you get 5 free drinks a day and 50% off everything else.
• 33-38 days of annual leave (increasing with service).
• Free private medical aid cover – with the option to add a loved one.
• 4-5% pension contribution (increasing with service).
• Life assurance at 3x your annual salary.
• Loyalty awards to celebrate every 5 years you're with us.
• And more – think: a flexible benefits platform, season ticket loans, a healthcare cash plan, mortgage services, financial wellbeing provisions, option to take a sabbatical after 3 years, and opportunities to support our incredible charity, the Pret Foundation.