Management Accountant

Skills Direct are extremely delighted to be recruiting, on behalf of our well-established Clients, for a highly-skilled Management Accountant with a lucrative salary.

If you are highly skilled, highly motivated and general all-rounder, please do not hesitate to apply today.

Main Purpose

To support the accounts team, including transaction level processing, management accounting and assisting the credit control and payroll teams when needed. A pro-active attitude to problem solving and adapting to change is essential. By contributing to improvement of processes and reporting, the role should ultimately make the simpler tasks as easy as possible, to leave more time for the accounts function to provide the business with valuable financial information, in a timely manner.

Essential skills/qualifications/experience:

Part qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA or fully qualified AAT. Microsoft Excel to an intermediate level (i.e. comfortable analysing and manipulating data from multiple sources, simple pivot tables and use of Excel functions). Preparing and posting sales and purchase invoices, cash transactions and journals. Experience of highly repetitive data processing with accuracy, as well as contributing to analysis of financial results and problem solving. Non-essential but beneficial skills/qualifications/experience:

Use of Microsoft Dynamics AX (or NAV or 365). Management accounts and/or statutory accounts preparation. Prior roles within the furniture or manufacturing industry.

Specific Tasks

Bank reconciliations and posting cashbook transactions. Reconciliations of balance sheet accounts, including sub-ledger control accounts and provisions. Assisting with month end closure and preparation of monthly management accounts. Analyses of monthly overheads and providing explanations for major variances. Preparing prepayments and accruals adjustments. Analyses of stock gains and losses, liaising with the purchasing/stock management team to provide explanations for them. Processing employee expenses and arranging payment. Raising ad-hoc bank payments and following up for approval. Assisting with the preparation of the weekly cash flow. Preparing weekly sales reports for submission to group parent company finance team. Providing cover to sales ledger and payroll teams when necessary, including posting sales invoice and cash collections and assisting with monthly and weekly payroll processing.

General Tasks

The list of specific tasks is not comprehensive and various tasks may arise on an ad hock basis for which you will become responsible. You may be required to work within any section of the accounts department. The company reserves the right to amend your job description from time to time in accordance with the needs of the business. The standard of work required is one of best custom and practice, consistent with the company accounting policy, timetable and deadlines. Ensure records are kept secure at all times. Working relationships with whom the job holder may have to liaise - Directors, SBI Finance director and staff, Management and Accounting staff of other group companies, Sales team members, Sales office staff, Order entry staff, HR staff, Planning and Production staff, Design staff, Distribution staff, After sales office staff, all accounting department and IT staff, and Insurers. Fit Statement - the tasks and duties are carried out from a mainly seated position, using a VDU, with a low level of physical effort or mobility required. Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Experience:

accounting: 3 years (Preferred) Education:

Diploma of Higher Education (Preferred) Licence:

AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) (Required) Additional Duties:

Account reconciliation Running errands (bank deposits, etc.) Invoice processing Recordkeeping Data entry