Job Description:

Management Accountant

Competitive Salary

Monday – Friday / General Office Hours

Chester

Our client based in the Chester area is currently recruiting a Management Accountant on a permanent basis.  Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the successful candidate will be a key member of the Central Finance Team.  Ideal applicants will have a proven record across a broad range of accounting skills, demonstrate adaptability, and thrive in a busy team environment, whilst being confident in their ability to support the group’s ambitious growth and profitability objectives.  This role will offer a great deal of autonomy, as well as many opportunities for personal and professional growth. The Management Accountant is an important Business Partner both to other Head Office support functions (including Credit Control and HR Payroll) and also to Sales and Operational teams. This position has extensive commercial involvement and autonomous control over publication and analysis of weekly and monthly MI reporting.

Performance Objectives

• Monthly MI/reporting – Using Sage X3 and Mercur reporting systems, produce monthly management information (MI), including profit and loss (P&L) statements for all sites, balance sheets, and cash flow reports
• Liaise with Directors, the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), and the Senior Management Team (SMT) to resolve any queries.
• Conduct cost reviews and overhead tracking, identifying potential cost savings and operational efficiencies.
• Manage the Invoice Discounting (ID) facility, including daybook uploads, drawdowns, and reconciliations.
• Carry out transactional finance duties, including (but not limited to) posting and reconciling weekly sales and cost of sales (COS), fixed assets, bank postings and reconciliations, accruals and prepayments, and assisting with accounts payable (AP), supplier payments, and supplier queries.
• Prepare and submit VAT returns and payments, including completing monthly VAT reconciliations.
• Support external audits and inspections as required, including the annual statutory year-end audit.
• Any other tasks as and when required.

Person Specification

• Ideally CCAB qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) accountant or in final stages of qualification.
• Part-qualified applications welcome.
• Proven technical accounting knowledge.
• Advanced MS excel skills including e.g. VLOOKUP and pivot tables.
• Financially astute, articulate and technically diligent with the ability to communicate with financial and non-financial peers.
• Confident with proven experience dealing with HMRC and other third parties.
• Proven ability to work effectively as a team player.
• Proven ability to act decisively under pressure.
• Previous experience working as a Management Accountant with Month end Management Accounts responsibilities.
• Energetic, highly motivated and with an enquiring mind.
• Passionate about personal and business growth and success.

Benefits

• Excellent benefit package

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