Management Accountant
£35000-45000k
Perm - Luton
Randstad are currently working in collaboration with a rapidly expanding trading business near Luton. This busy, successful and expanding international business are seeking an accounts focused, organised and autonomous Management Accountant to join their team on a permanent basis to support the smooth running of a busy department.
Key responsibilities of the Management Accountant includes:
- Supervise daily activities of the finance team and provide support as needed.
- Daily cash flow and finance utilisation update
- Manage all payment processing and approvals ensuring procedures are followed and
terms met.
- Raise trade finance loans and letters of credit as required. Review position for the
week on a daily basis and liaise with FD on cash maintenance.
- Manage all HSBC queries, liaising with the FD and wider finance team as needed.
- Manage year end audit and preparation of the statutory accounts with support from
FD
- Review & Management of VAT and other statutory taxes
- Review month-end overhead accruals including analysis completed by assistant
accountant and evaluate variances to be communicated with the month-end pack.
- Maintain tank/stock schedules throughout the month and prepare and post all
accruals relating to stock. Liaise with ops/procure teams per the process
- Maintenance of invoice discounting accounts and monthly reconciliations
- Fixed Asset, depreciation and amortisation review, journal postings and
reconciliations
- Prepare and post monthly journals per journal list
- Manage and prepare all employed, contracted and oversea staff salary schedules
and post monthly journals. Manage all payroll queries.
- Preparation and distribution of the monthly management pack for review by the FD
and the SMT
- Weekly and Monthly FX updates and reconciliation
- Assist with preparation of the 4 month reforecast pack to be distributed monthly
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Production and monitoring of monthly management accounts and variance analysis
where required.
- Process improvement implementation and review
Key skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills
- Accuracy and an eye for detail
- Excellent interpersonal skills - able to communicate at all levels with both financial and non-financial management
- Strong commercial acumen
- Excel - Intermediate
- Experience of working in a high performing finance team
- Sage 50 experience
This is an immediately available opportunity for a Management Accountant to join a successful and growing business at an exciting time.
If you are interested in the role of Management Accountant please do not hesitate to apply today.
Randstad Financial & Professional encourage applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Randstad Financial & Professional acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003