Management Accountant - Art Logistics
Management Accountant - Art Logistics
Our client, a world class logistics business who specialise in the creative/art space, have been around for over 45 years, and are looking to hire a Management Accountant who will report into the Financial Controller within their finance team.
The role is a 6 month FTC with scope for the role to be made permanent depending on performance and market conditions over the first 6 months.
Job purpose
The Management Accountant is a key role within the team, responsible for accurate financial reporting and business analysis as well as providing support to the FC in business planning.
Responsibilities
- Ownership of monthly management accounts and KPIs
- Complete the production of monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Gain a good understanding of cost base and account for variances at month end
- Reconcile monthly revenue to cost of sales and work with the business to investigate and explain differences (WIP knowledge desirable)
- Produce a weekly cash flow forecast and monitor capital expenditure projects
- Providing value add business analysis, proactive business partnering
- Review weekly estimate and conversion reports prior to submission
- Work with the Financial Controller to structure Finance processes to achieve accounting best practice
- Undertake process review of scheduled tasks, streamline and/or automate where possible
- Review the submission of all statutory returns, including VAT, National Statistics and Insurance renewals
- Provide holiday cover for other team members
- Assist in annual audit
- Participating in projects
- Respond to ad hoc reporting requirements as required
Skills & Person specification
- Part qualified or finalist ACCA/CIMA Accountant
- 2 years current experience of management accounting within industry or practice
- Highly numerate with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent computer literacy, including strong Excel skills (advanced analytical abilities)
- Experience of extracting data from finance ledger systems and business systems to provide profitability analysis (Access Dimensions useful but not essential)
- Confident and effective communicator, with finance and non-finance colleagues
- Persistent character with the ability to challenge processes
