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About Us
DX are a market leading provider of a wide range of delivery services, including parcel freight, secure, courier and logistics services.
We provide a wide range of specialist delivery services to both business and residential addresses across the UK and Ireland. We have three divisions, DX Freight, DX Express and DX Logistics. Our approach is straight-forward and no-nonsense. Our goal is to Deliver Exactly to our customers' requirements. Key to what we do at DX is our people and we are incredibly proud of the dedicated team we have built.
At DX, we are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity for all irrespective of race, gender, disability, belief, sexual orientation, age or socio-economic background.
Benefits:
At DX, our people are the foundation of our success. We reward our employees by providing different benefits at various stages of your employment with us, the most recent benefit we have added is Company Healthcare, which you become eligible for after 6 months of continuous service. This is a company paid for scheme at Level 1 allowing you to claim back for dental care and optician fees amongst other things. This is just one of the benefits that come with working at DX, the others are listed below:
- Competitive Rates of Pay
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity
- Holidays: 25 days increasing with length of service + bank holidays
- Long Service Recognition scheme
- Company Pension Scheme
- Employee Assistance programme including 24/7 Virtual GP
- DX Discounts Portal
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
Role summary:
We're looking for an organised and self-motivated Management Accountant to join the Express Divisional team. The role will work closely with operations personnel and central accountants to ensure accurately reported financial information.
The ideal candidate will be a proactive team player, able to prioritise workloads, with the ability to communicate effectively.
Key responsibilities:
- Maintenance of the Weekly P&L and supporting files
- Completion of daily reporting such as revenue, cost and volumes
- Actively participate in the preparation of the Depot's budgets
- Prepare the depots' management accounts so that the operational management team are able to properly assess the financial performance of that location, region or nationally
- Analysing and understanding variance to budget and prior periods; highlighting any potential areas of concerns to the appropriate people
- Must be willing and able to visit the depots around the country and assist in training non-financial staff to better use and complete the existing reports
- Preparation of monthly accruals and prepayment schedules
- Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Actively participate in various ad-hoc projects
Measures:
- Adherence to Weekly timetable in production of the weekly P&L's
- Preparation of depot budgets and forecasts to agreed timetables
- No evidence of significant variances from budget not reported to Financial Controller on a timely basis
- Accuracy and consistency in delivering monthly management accounts
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Strong excel skills including working with large amounts of data.
- Ideally, minimum 1-2 years' experience in finance function; preferably studying for professional exams
- The candidate would ideally have experience of supporting non-finance individuals
- Used to working to and achieving tight deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
- Some experience of management accounts
- Financial systems experience desirable
- Driving licence
Personal Specifications:
- Keen eye for detail
- Tenacity to ensure business unit timetables are met
- 'Quality in everything we do, get it right first time' attitude
- Strong communication skills are essential
- Have strong analytical and organisational skills and a questioning approach
- Be a team player with ability to follow procedures and guidelines to achieve successful team outcomes
We look forward to hearing from you!
