Assistant Management Accountant

Grafton Banks Finance are working with an SME services company with offices in Eastbourne, East Sussex to recruit an Assistant Management Accountant on a full-time permanent basis. Offering Hybrid working 2 days in office and 3 days from home reporting into the Financial Controller and working in a small friendly team. This full-time job will involve, recoding and reporting of results in compliance with accounting standards and within the group financial policy and processes. Timely and accurate contribution to the preparation of financial analysis, forecasts, budgets, cashflows and other key management information as required as well as effective liaison with all stakeholders to ensure the team can close accurately and timely and to meet the needs of all stakeholders in the delivery of additional analysis and supplementary information and support and supporting the audit process through timely and responsive communications and provision of information to ensure an efficient audit. Duties and Responsibilities will include: Ownership of assigned financial statement classifications such as (but not limited to) Fixed Assets, Prepayments and Accruals across the group and other account classifications as required. Preparation of best in class, accurate and timely balance sheet reconciliations. Investigation and proactive resolution to all significant reconciling differences. Strong and proactive commitment to own and understand the numbers in your remit and the appropriate and accurate recording of the transactions in line with policy. Supporting with all requests for information, supplementary analysis and other reporting pertaining to the above. Effective liaison with other finance teams and partnering with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate and transparent financial reporting. Supporting with requests from auditors to ensure timely and effective delivery of information and timely and appropriate responses to queries. Ensure the proper maintenance and effective retention of high quality, well presented supporting evidence to all transactions in your remit. Strong desire and proactive approach to supporting the finance function and wider business in the continuous development and improvements to operating efficiency and effectiveness. The successful candidate will have solid practical experience of working in a finance function working closely around the companies Management and Financial Accounts within support roles. You will need to have strong IT skills including Microsoft packages (Excel - pivot tables, v-look ups, formulas, spreadsheets) as well as experience of working with accounting software. You will need to have excellent communication skills both verbal and written to communicate effectively across the business with both financial and non-financial professionals and the ability to work in a team and sole charge. For your experience you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package. Hybrid working is on offer.