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Position Overview:
This role involves the preparation of monthly management accounts for a commercial entity. Additionally, it encompasses various duties as directed by the Finance Director.
Essential Job Functions:
- Prepare monthly management accounts and accompanying schedules, analyzing and explaining variances against budget, forecast, and previous periods. Maintain supporting documentation for all nominal ledger balances.
- Manage the fixed asset model to facilitate easy extraction of half-year and year-end summaries, ensuring accurate documentation of profit/losses on disposals.
- Maintain records and reconcile daily receipts from payment platforms (Worldpay, SagePay, PayPal) for online sales, including bank reconciliation.
- Manage the cash book and ensure accurate bank reconciliation on a daily basis.
- Match purchase invoices to system purchase orders, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Efficiently manage the purchase ledger, maintaining supplier data, ensuring proper authorization for expenditure, and reconciling balances monthly.
- Prepare half-year and year-end audit files within specified timelines. Participate in warehouse stock takes as required.
- Oversee the margin report, investigating anomalies and reviewing product margins for accuracy. Verify stock prices and ensure correct invoicing.
- Reconcile monthly stock across multiple warehouse locations.
- Identify opportunities for improving finance and warehouse systems utilization.
- Distribute and reconcile corporate credit card statements, obtaining necessary authorizations and posting expenditure analysis and VAT.
- Assist with tax computations and address related queries.
Non-Essential Job Functions:
Maintain the petty cash system, ensuring proper accounting and security.
Requirements:
- Previous experience in management accounting and purchase ledger.
- Proficiency with Sage accounting systems, particularly Sage 200.
- Strong skills in Excel and Word.
- Effective interpersonal communication skills across various levels.
- Self-motivated with a demonstrated commitment to fulfilling job tasks effectively.
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