Management Accountant
We are seeking a dedicated Management accountant to join our Kilburn based team! In this role you'll work with the Head of Finance to manage, maintain, and develop the Finance Function for both UK & Eire businesses as well as the wider group, ensuring our financial processes remain in line with business objectives.
Benefits include:
- Annual Salary: £50-60k depending on experience
- Offering one day working from home each week, after successfully passing a probationary period
- 20 days Annual Leave, plus Bank Holidays and a day off for your Birthday
- Company Pension Contribution
- Life Assurance
- Staff Discount
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Wider Wallet - Offers high street and online store discounts
Skills required:
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Team player capable of developing a team and their processes.
- Hands on, tenacious, and able to prioritise work to meet deadlines under pressure.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Self-Motivated with good time management, organisational and administrative skills.
- Desire to learn, support and develop with a mindset of continuous improvement.
- Preferably a qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent).
- Ability to acquire technical knowledge (e.g., accounting or tax) to liaise with third parties.
- Proficient in Excel.
- Experience in the Building Merchant/Property industries is an advantage.
Key Responsibilities include:
Accounts
- Prepare, develop and deliver UK and Irish Accounts & Forecasts with commentary, analytics and review.
- Produce branch accounts and variance analysis.
- Prepare/review of Balance Sheet reconciliations, including cash, intercompany balances, accruals, prepayments, and other balance sheet accounts.
- Manage and maintain fixed asset registers, ensuring additions, disposals, and depreciation are correctly accounted for.
- Handle cash management, forecasting and, authorising payments.
- Support rebate recovery process and analysis.
- Manage National Statistic filings.
- Prepare, develop, and review KPI analysis for both staff and the business.
- Assist in the preparation and review of Company Accounts.
- Help to assess the viability of potential new projects.
Systems, Projects, and Development
- Manage and maintain accounting systems, working with internal and external IT providers as necessary.
- Identify issues, develop and recommend changes to existing processes.
- Take the lead in various ad hoc projects.
- Assist with HMRC related queries.
- Help improve Import and Export processes.
- Ensure adherence to all the FSC/PEFC reporting standards.
People
- Support, develop and assist the finance team (PL and Accounts).
- Provide day-to-day guidance and support to a team of 10 staff, assisting with annual appraisals as required.
- Collaborate with other departments to resolve issues and make improvements.
- Help to manage the annual audit and resulting audit journals process.
- Adapt to the continually evolving business model.
Delivery and Communication of Financial Information
- Communicate key weekly and monthly reports.
- Develop new financial performance reporting/analysis as required to aid decision making.
- Design and deliver the continually evolving wider KPI Business Framework.
- Preparing financial information for external stakeholders.
- Ensure all internal and external department deadlines are met.