Assistant Management Accountant

Overview

The Assistant Management Accountant plays a critical role in producing management information for Reed Online and Reed Learning. You will work closely with the finance team and other internal stakeholders to identify where improvements in processes can be made.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain balance sheet reconciliations
• Calculation of accruals and prepayments, along with other period end journals
• Analysis of costs, looking at trend and against plan
• Processing of purchase invoices and co-member expenses
• Setting up payment schedule for both purchase invoices and expenses, along with supporting documents for approvals via Docusign, and subsequent payment run
• Dealing with supplier and expense queries from both internal and external stakeholders in a timely manner
• Reconciliation of all supplier statements to ensure the supplier ledgers reflects a true and accurate liability position
• Ensuring compliance to internal control processes

Skills and Experience

• Proven success in a similar role
• Ability to follow and identify new procedures and the confidence to question expenditure from all levels of the organisation
• Strong IT skills, with good knowledge of Excel
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work with a degree of autonomy, be flexible, collaborative and with a proactive approach.
• Ability to produce timely and accurate information
• Use of Sage and Unit4 would be desirable, but not essential

Benefits

• Hybrid working
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Flexible holiday scheme
• Paid time off to move home
• Contributory pension scheme
• Enhanced family leave benefits
• Insurance benefits including life assurance
• Love Mondays events
• Discount scheme including gyms and popular retailers
• Range of wellbeing and mental health support avenues
• Newly refurbished office in an amazing location, with countless bars, restaurants and theatres right on the doorstep

These are just some of the great benefits we offer everyone working at Reed Online and Reed Learning Limited

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All job offers are subject to satisfactory references and compliance with vetting requirements applicable to the job role. Reed is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. We are a Mindful Employer, proud signatories of the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter and the Armed Forces Covenant. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants and ex-services personnel, reservists and cadets, who meet the minimum criteria.