As the Management Accountant you will be part of the busy Accounts Team, supporting the financial operations of the company by processing and paying invoices, reconciling company accounts and posting accounting journals whilst working closely with the Finance Director - UK and Finance Administration team.

Key Tasks

• Lead the preparation of period end management accounting tasks, including posting accruals & prepayments and producing variance analysis.
• Responsible for timely completion of balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring supporting documentation is presented each period
• Daily bank reconciliations.
• Cashflow monitoring and forecasting, identifying short to medium term cash requirements and liaise with group treasury regarding cash requirements
• Preparation and monitoring of overhead budgets & forecasts in liaison with department heads.
• Ownership of Fixed Asset Register.
• Credit Control support and weekly Aged Debtors reporting.
• Monitoring of exchange rates and impact on foreign currency payments and receipts.
• Monthly staff payroll – collation, submission and review, with support from an external payroll provider and HR and process monthly payroll journals to ERP system
• Assisting the year end audit process
• Maintaining process documentation, whilst continuously seeking opportunities for process improvement
• Preparation & submission of monthly VAT Returns.
• Review and approval of purchase invoices.
• Review of bi-monthly payment runs and processing of payments.
• Monitoring of stock and liaison with Operations team regarding stocktakes.
• Review and approval of staff expenses.

Knowledge, experience & skills

The job holder must:

• CIMA/ACCA qualified with 2 plus years post qualification experience 
• Strong analytical skills, commercially and financially aware with a keen attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience in management reporting processes.
• Experience of processing accounting monthly accounting adjustments
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong IT skills, in particular the use of excel
• Experience with using SAP desirable but not essential
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with individuals at all levels of the organisation
• Willingness to work on a broad variety of finance related tasks, gaining exposure and developing with the support of the Financial Accounting team.
• In-depth knowledge of accounting and budgeting principles
• Ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines