Our client is a well-respected business operating within the manufacturing and engineering Industry with a number of high profile clients across the Automotive and Aerospace Industry.
As part of the companies continued expansion, FRS have been enlisted to assist with the recruitment of a Part Qualified or Qualified finance professional to join the business as Management Accountant.
This position will be based at the companies UK Offices in Willenhall and will work closely with the Finance Manager to complete the below duties.
- Preparation of management accounts for final review with manager
- Preparation of all schedules for management accounts including accruals and prepayments
- Variance Analysis and explanations / commentary
- Assist in annual budgeting process
- Preparation of the cost of sales analysis including review of the sales order process and WIP to ensure that invoicing is up to date, payments on account are correctly treated and all relevant costs transfer to the cost of sales
- Review daily bank balances and ensure that month end reconciliations are complete
- Preparation of the weekly cash flow forecast
- Preparation and submission of quarterly VAT return
- Responsible for producing balance sheet reconciliations and resolving errors.
- Maintain the Fixed Asset Register and calculate the monthly depreciation charges
- Responsibility for stock verification and valuation
- Reporting on ONS Statistics
- Preparing daily, weekly and monthly reports for senior management
- Working with the team to improve automation of internal processes
- Supervision of sales ledger & purchase ledger closedown at month
- Oversee the sales ledger to ensure that debt is recovered in a timely manner inline with the company's credit control procedure. Ensure all new customers are correctly vetted with credit insurance in place and that the credit limits existing customers are regularly reviewed.
The ideal candidate will be working towards Qualification (AAT / ACCA / CIMA) if not already qualified and ideally have at least 2 years of experience gained in a similar position management accounting position.
Experience gained within a manufacturing / engineering industry with exposure to cost accounting is desirable but not essential have candidates must posses a good level of IT Literacy to include MS Excel as reporting and analysis is a big feature of this role.
Experience of Sage systems would be desirable but again not essential.
In return my client is able to offer a varied and progressive opportunity within a dynamic business.
A competitive basic salary of up to £48,000 + Bonus, Benefits and Study Support (For those still studying) can be offered.