Assistant Management Accountant

The Consultancy Group are looking for an experienced Temporary Assistant Management Accountant to join the Finance team at a fun & diverse Media Company on a 12 Months fixed term contract.

You will report into the Senior Management Accountant and work diligently to ensure accurate, timely and reliable reporting for monthly/quarterly accounts, budgets and reforecasts. In addition to the Management Accounts responsibilities you will have the opportunity to support the FP&A team.

You will be part qualified Accountant (ACA/AMCA/ACCA), with some relevant accountancy and FP&A experience. It goes without saying that you will be a skilled excel user (ideally advanced) and contentious about getting the task done on time.

Main Responsibilities:

• Preparation of all monthly journals including but not limited to accruals, prepayments, loans and interest
• Assisting external financial reporting with group consolidation processes and reporting
• Responsible for reconciling all balance sheet accounts with accurate information
• Responsible for reconciling all intercompany balances and ensuring all mismatches are cleared by the month end deadlines
• Preparation of the monthly business performance and accounting call packs
• Responsible for the submission of the monthly rollforward packs and quarterly AIP's & MDA for the holdco's
• Responsible for preparing the monthly consolidated pack and commentary vs. Budget for FP&A
• Responsible for the budget and reforecast submissions of the holdco's as well as assisting with the central submission
• Preparation of statutory accounts including preparation of data/information for auditors and being their first point of call for any initial queries
• Responsible for ensuring Plator PLA/SLA's payments terms are met/ cashflow management
• Liaising with Iberia finance team to ensure smooth process of finance function for AMCNPS
• Assisting SMA with any other queries
• Responsible for preparing additional reporting around FP&A month end including, KPI dashboard, Cashflow forecasting, debtor, headcount and channel reporting
• FP&A Assistance with monthly rolling forecast
• FP&A Assistance with Consolidated mid year forecast and budget
• Adhoc FP&A working including Essbase administrator responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Part/Qualified accountant ACA /AMCA / ACCA - new qual to appropriate PQE
• Strong Excel skills.
• FP&A experience
• Proactive with hands-on approach to ensure deadlines are met

Please ensure you are avaliable Immediately if applying for this role.