Assistant Management Accountant
- Recruiter
- Investigo Limited
- Location
- England, London, City of London
- Salary
- £17 - £19 per hour
- Posted
- 26 Sep 2016
- Closes
- 03 Oct 2016
- Ref
- BBBH48811
- Contact
- Charlotte Bourgaize
- Job Title
- Management Accountant
- Category
- Retail / Wholesale
- Experience Levels
- Part Qualified
- Contract Type
- Temporary
- Hours
- Full Time
ASSISTANT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT
3-6 MONTH TEMPORARY ROLE
RETAIL INDUSTRY
£17-19/HR
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ACCA/CIMA/AAT studier to join this rapidly expanding independent retailer for a 3-6-month assignment. The main requirement of the role will be to support the management accounts team, including preparation of period end reporting and associated variance analysis.
The role is business facing and the applicant will be need to be comfortable with presenting financial information to non-finance members of staff. The role will report to the Financial Reporting Manager and sit within a management accounts team of 5 in Central London. There may be the requirement to travel to Edinburgh/Paris on an ad-hoc basis.
This is a Group Level Management Accounting role and requires practical knowledge and understanding of the following duties:
- Ownership of various department cost centre period ends including tasks such as:
- Preparation of periodic cost centre accounts, including posting period end journals;
- Preparing key variance analysis and commentary suitable for review with the business heads;
- Preparation of ad-hoc general ledger journals;
- Support the business with any finance queries;
- Period end reconciliations suitable for audit standard review;
- Period end filing/scanning of management accounts journals
- Adhoc project work as and when the business need arises, working closely with the business to appraise potential business plans from a finance perspective
- Adhoc tasks for the Financial Reporting Manager and the Financial Controller as they arise
- Support the business and FP&A team with the preparation of annual budgets and adhoc re-forecasts
- Assist in preparation of the audit files for both interim and annual audits
The successful candidate will:
- be a CIMA/ACCA/AAT studier with 1+ years management accounts industry experience
- have excellent communication & time management skills
- be at an intermediate Excel level (pivot tables & VLOOKUP's as a minimum)