Accountancy Recruit is partnering a client in Middlewich to appoint a Management Accountant. The role would suit a Financial Accountant, Company Accountant or Finance Manager and will have responsibility for P&L management, analysis and reporting (sales, cost of sales, discounts) and balance sheet reconciliations. We are looking for a Management Accountant keen to identify and implement improvements to procedures and controls, as well as taking responsibility for ad-hoc projects as required.
The Management Accountant will have the following responsibilities:
- Line management of two Accounts Assistants.
- Overseeing the P&L month end process.
- Crucial interface between the UK Finance team and the Controlling team in European head office.
- Overseeing Sales Ledger and Accounts Receivable.
- Debit note management.
- Working alongside the Financial Accountant to provide cover when needed.
- Preparing and posting monthly accruals, prepayments and similar accounting entries.
- Leading the analysis of monthly and quarterly numbers and presenting findings to the board.
- Continually identifying risks to delivery, propose solutions where necessary and effectively manage stakeholder expectations throughout.
- Managing the AP ledger.
- Managing the Credit Control function, including processing debit notes and associated returns.
- Business partner other departments as required, ie warehouse to deal with stock queries.
- Supporting the FD and deputising when required.
To be successful in this role the Management Accountant will have the following experience:
- Strong technical accounting knowledge.
- Advanced Excel and modelling.
- Commercial mindset.
- Ability to delegate and manage the work of others.
- Experience of AP and AR.
- Experience participating in the annual audit, liaising directly with the external audit team.
- Detailed knowledge of JDE/Oracle would be beneficial
The salary advertised for this role is a guide, the salary offered will be commensurate with experience.