Commercial Management Accountant

Your New Company
As an Assistant Management Accountant, you will be a crucial part of our financial and management reporting team, aiding in strategic decision-making. You will be part of a tight-knit team, reporting to the Head of Management Accountant and working on various projects and tasks. Your responsibilities will include control, reporting, and budgeting for a multi-site business, offering a wide variety of tasks and responsibilities. This is a hybrid role with two days a week in the office and flexible working hours.
Your New Role
As a Management Accountant, your responsibilities will include:

• Executing month-end accounting processes, ensuring financial information is accurate, complete, and integral.
• Providing clear explanations to ensure key financial information and balances are correctly interpreted and that divisional finance teams understand their risks and opportunities.
• Preparing comprehensive balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all balances are supported and no un-actioned differences remain within any balance sheet control accounts for more than one quarter.
• Delivering high-quality reports, information, and commentary to provide insights that enable the business to make effective strategic and operational decisions.
• Providing excellent customer service to internal customers, ensuring high-quality financial information is provided to decision-makers.
• Responding promptly to queries received relating to month-end processes.
• Collaborating with teams across the company to build strong relationships and ensure effective financial reporting support is provided across the business.
• Ensuring the finance team maintains financial records and systems in accordance with GAAP principles and performs comprehensive document reviews to ensure Internal Controls are followed in accordance with company established guidelines, policies & procedures, and ensure that a robust controls environment is in place.
• Supporting the external audit process and providing responses to any related queries to ensure the audit process is conducted smoothly and accurately.
• Supporting the end-to-end review of processes by suggesting ideas for improvements that could benefit reconciliations through enhancing systems and processes.
• Maintaining a detailed knowledge of source data, and the structure and use of financial information from core systems which feeds into the financial statements.
• Understanding the impact of operational changes to procedures and core business systems to ensure correct accounting treatment and up to date posting books.
• Assisting with any operational or accounting projects initiatives as required and carrying out ad-hoc analysis to deliver key operational/management information to differing audiences to help support decision making.

What You'll Need to Succeed
You will bring:

• A positive and proactive attitude with a passion for personal development and company growth.
• Professionalism and excellent attention to detail.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to build strong working relationships and present financial information to both financial and non-financial management.
• Flexibility and adaptability to business change.
• Problem-solving skills, including taking ownership of problems through to resolution.
• High motivation - able to use your own initiative and work as part of a team.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• An excellent approach to customer service with the ability to manage expectations and conflicting priorities of key stakeholders.
• A strong customer service ethos.

Qualifications

• ACCA/CIMA studier or equivalent level experience.
• Ability to meet deadlines, prioritise workload and deliver high-quality financial information to non-finance stakeholders as well.
• Experience with finance and ERP software.

What You'll Get in Return
In return, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and supportive environment, with the potential for personal and professional growth. You will also have the chance to contribute to the success of our company, and make a real difference in our financial operations. Flexible working hours can be accommodated.
What you need to do now
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