Commercial Accountant

A fantastic permanent opportunity for a full time Commercial Accountant role based in Hazel Grove with hybrid home working available.

Client Details

Working for a well established, highly successful and award winning organisation. Based in a supportive team working closely with the FD with opportunities to develop.

Description

The duties include:

• Prepare monthly management accounts with commentary in a presentable pack to the senior management team.
  • Prepare management accounts packs, reconciling sales, trial balance and P&L figures and commentary, undertaking further investigations as necessary.
  • Request other reports, trend graphs and other information to include in the commentary from colleagues.
  • Review management pack with Finance Directors per cycle.
• Month end duties, including closing ledgers, updating exchange rates, journal preparations and posting.
  • Close General Ledger and Inventory ledgers in Oracle system.
  • Update exchange rates in Oracle system per cycle.
  • Journal preparation using ADI upload in excel and posting journal entries using Oracle system.
  • Manage other team members of their cycle end task to ensure task has been done and other ledgers are closed with no problems.
• Balance sheet reconciliation.
  • Prepare balance sheet reconciliations per cycle for a set of balance sheet accounts.
  • Collate from other team members balance sheet reconciliations and review.
  • Review balance sheet reconciliations with Finance Directors per month.
• Weekly bank reconciliations forGBP and EUR currency accounts.
  • Reconcile bank accounts on a weekly basis for GBP and EUR accounts using GL Wand application to reconcile to bank statements, and investigate any entries not matched.
• Quarterly preparation of Market Share analysis, Average Selling Price analysis and Rebate calculations.
  • Obtain sales stats from system, prepare sales stats to enter into market share template to be sent to external company.
  • Obtain sales stats from system, prepare ASP template received, reconciling to the relevant quarter cycle's sales figure.
  • Obtain sales stats from system, prepare rebate calculations and forward to customer.
• Prepare and submitting VAT returns for all companies.
  • Obtain reports from relevant finance system and excel to prepare VAT return and submitting to HMRC online and arranging payment when required.
• Arrange the half year and audited end of year stock take.
• Manage Accounts Assistants.
  • Ensure Accounts daily treasury tasks is carried out, reviewing cashflow forecast and managing daily bank balance.
  • Manage adhoc duties given to Accounts team.
• Collaborating and Supporting UK Sales team
  • Ensure reporting accuracy for customer accounts
  • Provide support for maximizing customer experience and margins

Profile

The successful candidate MUST:

• Have experience with management accounts - Essential
• Be working towards final exams of ACCA or CIMA - Essential
• Have experience beyond the management accounts and looking at the commercials - Essential
• Be strong using MS Excel
• Have experience in costings - Desirable
• Be a strong communicator with a strong attention to detail - Essential

Job Offer

This role is looking to pay up to £51,000 + Hybrid working + Study support + Parking + Pension