Management Accountant

Management Accountant

Southwark

£60,000

Contract (Fixed-Term 12 months, 35 hours per week.)

Benefits:

• 27 days’ annual leave (excluding bank holidays)
• 8% contributory pension scheme (5% employer contribution, 3% employee contribution)
• Income Protection, Death in Service, and Critical Illness Cover
• Season ticket loan on completion of probation
• Health and wellbeing package, including a confidential employee assistance programme and online therapy sessions
• Commitment to training and development

Our client is looking for an experienced Management Accountant to play an important role within their finance team.

You will be preparing the monthly management accounts and supporting information while also overseeing general accounting procedures and practices within the business, for 5 companies in the group, ensuring the provision of accurate and timely management information and analysis to aid managers, directors and trustees with decision making and promoting long term financial success for the client.

Essentials:

• Part qualified / Qualified CIMA - ACCA with management accounts preparation experience.
• 3-5 years’ experience in preparation of monthly management accounts
• Commercial experience preferable and an understanding of business
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with both finance and non-finance colleagues
• Self-motivated, strong leadership and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to identify unusual items in management accounts, raising with appropriate member of management. Control and management of the month end process
• Assist and train non-financial staff in the use of the finance system
• Ability to step back from day to day role, consider current processes and suggest improvements

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare and distribute timely management accounts for the organisation with narrative and variance analysis in collaboration with budget holders, to ensure board members and the management team are in receipt of accurate and reliable information and analysis to aid business decision making and cost control.
• Maintain up to date, complete and accurate reconciliations of accruals, prepayments and balance sheet accounts to ensure accurate end of month cut-off and cost/revenue recognition.
• Ensure that the finance team fully complies with the documented finance procedures and identify and develop the systems, recommend any opportunities to improve on to the procedures to maintain consistency in approach and understanding and purpose of processes.
• Maintain an up-to-date cash flow forecast model to support informed discretionary spending decisions supporting management of financial risk in the business.
• Assist the organisation’s teams with their annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• To train and guide the organisation’s teams on the internal control procedures, particularly on the raising of purchase orders
• Prepare annual audit files directly and work with and support the Community Finance Business Partner in advance of audit to ensure a smooth inspection.

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