The Role
The Assistant Management Accountant will report to the Group Financial Controller (GFC) and support the delivery of the Group's accounting and reporting functions. The role will be pivotal both to the Finance function as well as the business and requires someone with IFRS accounting experience and can help with the preparation of statutory financial statements. The successful candidate will help create a strong culture of control and help navigate through an ever-changing regulatory environment. The successful candidate will support tax, treasury, analytical, financial compliance, business partnering.
Core Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of Treasury responsibilities, ensuring all cashbooks are completed, bank accounts reconciled and monthly Management Cashflow reporting delivered in a timely manner.
- Maintain the banking relationship for all banks.
- Delivering monthly, Interim and FY reporting cycles, in areas of the accounts that you will be assigned. Including, but not limited to, bank and credit card reconciliations, expenses processing, lease accounting, accruals, prepayments.
- Work with Management Accountant and GFC in ensuring business transactions conform to IFRS accounting standards and the balance sheet is reconciled and maintained to a high standard for the areas to which they are assigned.
- Supporting the interim and year end Group audit process
- Help and support with activities related to the integration of acquired businesses into the Group.
- Supporting the wind-up of legal entities post integration.
- Support in filing statutory audited accounts for circa 37 UK legal entities in the group.
- Supporting the Tax functions, when assigned tasks - including preparation of VAT returns.
- Completion of any ad-hoc projects that may be assigned
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
- 1-2 years' experience, having worked in accounting roles.
- Working towards an accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
- Stakeholder management. Have confidence to work with finance and business partners and support conversations to ensure optimal financial outcomes for the business.
- Excellent communication skills: ability to explain accounting situations to business partners
- Knowledge of financial reporting systems preferred and competent in Excel
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