Management Accountant
- Recruiter
- Michael Page Finance
- Location
- Wales, Cardiff
- Salary
- £30000 - £40000 per annum + Additional benefits
- Posted
- 12 Aug 2019
- Closes
- 19 Aug 2019
- Ref
- 14038902/001
- Contact
- Jasmin Barry
- Job Title
- Management Accountant
- Category
- Accountancy Practice
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
A diverse Management Accountancy role within a large business services company based near Cardiff. Managing finances and providing support to the business.
Client Details
A large business services company based near Cardiff, with a European scope and amazing career opportunities.
Description
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Supporting locally based finance staff
- Preparing management accounts, which will involve sight visits
- Reviewing controls and processes in order to make improvements where necessary
- Providing commercial support to the senior managers of certain Group businesses
- Preparing cash flow forecasts
- Liaising with auditors for the annual audit
- Ensuring that supplier and HMRC payments are made on time
- Developing financial reports as required
- Assisting with budget preparation
Additional Responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring there are proper financial controls operating at each sight
- Making regular review visits to subsidiaries
- Carrying out audit reviews of subsidiary businesses to ensure that they are ad-hearing to group procedures
- Ensuring all customers dealt with outside of the Caerphilly Administration department are being invoiced properly and accurately
- Checking that robust credit control procedures are in place and minimising debt levels
- Managing post acquisition/divestment of business
- Carrying out due diligence and data analysis work
- Assisting with Group and subsidiary reporting obligations including financial statements and tax returns
Profile
Successful candidates will display the following characteristics:
Business Focus:
- Has ability to work in a consultative role, advising on improvements and best practice
- Demonstrates commercial awareness and understanding, without compromising financial disciplines
- Ensures that business opportunities are appropriately evaluated to minimise risk and sustain/improve and streamline processes
Communications:
- Provides inclusive and user-friendly management information, meaningful financial analysis, input and advice to divisional colleagues and senior management to assist with understanding KPI reporting
- Communicates positively
- Provides accurate and timely reporting, establishing effective communications with other senior financial colleagues within the Group
- Displays well developed presentation and communication skills, verbally as well as numerically, with good report writing skills
- Open and Honest
Technical and Financial Competencies:
- Holder of recognised accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, ACMA) unless exceptional reasons apply
- Has excellent MS office skills, particularly Excel and Word
- Experience of Sage accounting systems
- Broad financial management background in a business-to-business (or similar) service organisation
- Experience or knowledge of carrying out both external and internal audit work
- Experience of preparing management accounts
Personal Characteristics:
- Willing to travel within the UK, Ireland and Spain
- Prioritises successfully in order to identify and meet key issues and challenges
- Self starter who is able to manage own workload
- Able to work in a deadline driven structured and methodical manner
- Displays ability to challenge
- Positive mentalist
- Displays completer/finisher mentality
- Demonstrates excellent attention to detail whilst retaining ability to see wider business picture
- Remains calm and focused under pressure
- Displays honest, openness and integrity to staff and colleagues
- Gives others credit where due and readily critiques own results and behaviour
- Demonstrates receptiveness to new ideas whatever the source
Job Offer
Competitive basic salary - 30 - 40k p/a
Car allowance
Salary sacrifice pension
20 days per annum holiday plus statutory days and Christmas shut down (3-4 days)
36 hours a week
Childcare voucher scheme
Employee discount offers
Free health and well-being support
Free on-site canteen
Free on-site parking