Management Accountant
- Recruiter
- Trace Recruitment
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £38k - 45k per year
- Posted
- 20 Sep 2018
- Closes
- 27 Sep 2018
- Ref
- DD - MA
- Contact
- Deniz Dervish
- Job Title
- Management Accountant
- Category
- Marketing / PR, Media / Entertainment
- Experience Levels
- Newly Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Management Accountant, Central London, £38,,000
An excellent opportunity for a PQ/Newly Qualified Management Accountant to join a buzzing Advertising Group in Central London. Responsible for 2 Agencies and working in a strong Finance team.
The ideal candidate would have studied a finance/accountancy related degree at University and be part-qualified in a relevant professional qualification (CIMA or ACCA). This is a fast-paced and challenging role, which requires an individual who has a good grounding in management accounts, and the drive and energy to achieve our Group reporting deadlines. The ideal candidate would have experience within the advertising/media sector and be used to communicating with non-financial people at all levels.
Responsibilities:
Timely reporting of monthly figures to Management and Group by WD2 working with the FM:
• Accruals and Prepayment; review of full P&L for monthly expenditure incurred; identify areas of expected costs, preparation of month-end journal
• Reversing prior month end journals, setting up new files for the month (Income statement, forecast file etc.)
• Review Accounts Payable ledger; reconciliation employee balances and aging; identifying cause of debit balances and take relevant action to correct
• Preparing and presenting freelance accruals to FM for month end reporting; weekly download of P&L, review freelance account and update freelance schedule
• Three way salary reconciliation (reconciling payroll schedules to internal salary file and general ledger)
• Preparing Pension and Staff Advances reconciliation for FM review on monthly basis
• Preparing payroll reconciliation, journal
• Headcount YTD reconciliation
• Check recharges prepared by AMA (check P&L and identify any costs to be recharged, check final file)
• Preparing the WIP Aging report for month end reporting on WD1 or WD2 ; WIP credits, WIP Aging, Open billable PO aging
• Management of intercompany recharges and reconciliation on a monthly basis, including resolving mismatches & preparation of journals for intercompany recharges / accruals.
• Check recharge job balances fully reconciled to zero on monthly basis
• Monthly and YTD Income Statement review and analysis
• Assisting with preparation of Hyperion Reporting month-end pack (Excel Schedules for input at Resources UK)
• Responsible for the review of the month end reporting folder
• Assisting Finance Manager with journal postings where required
Budgeting / Forecasting
• Update forecast files with monthly actuals to assist the Finance Manager
• Monthly review of overheads to identify key costs expected based on historic trends and understanding of busines