Management Accountant
- Recruiter
- Page Personnel
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £35000 - £40000 per annum
- Posted
- 18 Oct 2017
- Closes
- 18 Nov 2017
- Ref
- 13866199/001
- Contact
- Will Fairhurst
- Job role
- Management accountant
- Sector
- Media/Marketing
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
Our client, a recognised international publishing company are looking to recruit a Management Accountant into their accountancy team in their offices located in Central London. This is a great opportunity for a new challenge in a globally renowned company.
Client Details
Our client is a leading publishing company with it's headquarters in London and offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne.
Description
The key responsibilities of the Management Accountant are:
- Overseeing the preparation of the management accounts
- Work with the subsidiary accountants to ensure accurate and timely accounting information is received, ensuring a full understanding of the P&L and variances
- Understand and comment on variances to budget, forecast and prior year
- Support senior department managers in reviewing financial performance
- Leading the financial budget and forecasting process
- Managing the BP&A Analyst and the supply of timely information to the business.
- Title profitability analysis and financial analysis to support the senior management team in decision making.
- Assist the Financial Controller with the year-end supporting working papers and additional analysis for the audit file and tax computations
- Continually improve working practices and reports to support changing business needs
- Oversee and continually improve the information flow between the different members of the Finance department
- Ad hoc requests and analysis from Financial Controller, Chief Financial Officer and Business Directors
Profile
The successful Management Accountant:
- CIMA/ACCA part-qualified/finalist accountant, ideally with Publishing experience
- Strong technical accounting skills
- Strong finance systems knowledge
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel especially using Vlookup, pivot tables etc.
- Experience of Business Objects preferable but not essential
- Strong attention to detail, particularly when dealing with large quantities of data
- Ability to quickly learn how the business works and then use that knowledge to sense-check numbers produced in the accounts
Job Offer
£35,000 to £40,000 with additional benefits