Management Accountant
- Recruiter
- Goodman Masson
- Location
- Belvedere, Greater London, United Kingdom
- Salary
- GBP 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 per year
- Posted
- 03 Mar 2021
- Closes
- 02 Apr 2021
- Ref
- BB19025A75
- Job role
- Management accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Part qualified
One of the UK's leading Energy and Waste management firm currently require a management accountant to join their finance team on a permanent basis. Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the job holder will be a Management Accountant within the finance team, taking primary responsibility for several entities within the business. This will involve typical monthly activities, such as preparing relevant journal entries, ensuring management accounts are prepared on a timely basis, ensuring intercompany invoicing is up to date and that prepayment and accruals are recorded correctly. In addition to this the jobholder will be expected to business partner with relevant parts of the business and will be a key liaison between the finance department and operational teams. Also, the individual will be the main contact in the finance department for our complex municipal waste agreements, ensuring that the accounting for these is recorded correctly each month, and invoicing is up to date and has been calculated in line with the underlying contracts.
Specific Duties:
Requirements
Benefits
£30 - 35k
Specific Duties:
- Timely preparation of monthly management accounts for a specific business unit, including preparation and posting of key monthly journals, including ensuring un-invoiced income is accrued correctly, and the accounts system is reconciled to the weighbridge system.
- Leading the monthly reviews with operations teams and management for the entities being looked after. Business partnering with operational teams across the business.
- Key finance contact for the administrators within the councils with whom we have complex waste management contracts. Duties include:
- preparing the invoices for all such contracts in a timely fashion;
- regular reconciliation of deliveries between the weighbridge system and council records;
- ensuring price uplifts are applied appropriately per the contracts; and any other reporting requirements required by the councils from time to time.
- Taking the lead to ensure invoicing is completed across all business units, including intercompany invoicing.
- Monitoring of the weighbridge system on a regular basis to ensure tickets are being recorded correctly.
- Ensuring intercompany accounts balance each month end, and invoicing is up to date and recorded in line with relevant intercompany agreements.
- Assisting with the year end audit and statutory accounts preparation in conjunction with the Group Reporting Manager.
- Assisting the Senior Management Accountants throughout the annual budgeting process and with quarterly forecasting
- Ensure strict conformity at all times to company policies and procedures and ensure these are constantly reviewed to check they are in line with best practice.
- Assist with ad hoc project work including the transition to a new suite of integrated systems to automate the accounts function. Assist in planning, monitoring the progress of and reporting on specific aspects of the project both internally and externally.
- Preparation of payment runs, and ensuring new suppliers are recorded on the system in line with company procedures.
Requirements
- Part qualified accountant with industry experience or qualified accountant
- Management account preparation
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Business partnering
- Ability to understand detailed payment mechanisms embedded within contracts
- Self-Starter - ability to identify areas requiring improvement
- Team player with high level of people management skills
- Strong ability to manage time/Project management
- Communication Skills (both Internal and External)
- Attention to detail
- Commercial Acumen
- Problem solving
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Knowledge of FRS 102
- Experience of Access or similar accounting package
- Excel
- Other Microsoft Office
- Proven track record of success
- Experience working in a similar sized finance team
- Preparation of statutory accounts
- Preparation of management accounts
- Waste Industry
- Energy sector
Benefits
£30 - 35k