Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing month end close process, ensuring all expected purchase ledger invoices are either posted or received for accrual.
• Posting of month end journals to TB level, including turnover journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Month end balance sheet reconciliations, required to post accruals and prepayments.
• Raising and issuing inter-company and inter-group recharge invoices.
• Assisting the Financial Controller with management accounts variance analysis required for commentary submitted to the Board / HSBC bank.
• Preparing weekly cash flow forecast every Monday and 20-week cash flow forecast as required.
• Managing daily cash flow, in particular HSBC Invoice Finance and Trade Finance accounts, and meeting or swapping of Forward FX contracts.
• Preparing weekly supplier payment runs on HSBC, uploading payments to the bank website & checking bank details to ensure they are correct.
• Preparing Royalty reports for review by CFO before submitting to Brand Owner.
• Providing regular detailed reports and analysis to the CFO, Financial Controller and other senior members of staff, as well as ad-hoc reports as required.
• HSBC Invoice Finance reconciliations & adjustments to monthly deadlines.
• Posting and allocating cash transactions in Sage 200 & Styleman V11 (ERP System).
• Approving coding of purchase ledger invoices prior to posting by Trainee Accounts Assistant.
• Issuing inter-group sales ledger statements and chasing for payment of outstanding invoice.
• Assisting the Credit Controller where necessary, including raising customer credit notes, reconciling customer accounts, and setting up new customers / amending current customer accounts on Styleman V11, and taking customer payments via credit card machine.
• Other ad-hoc tasks and reporting as required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role in a reputable company
• AAT qualified and/or CIMA/ACCA studier

Desirable skills:

• Proactive approach with an ability to identify errors and implement process change across all areas of the business, driven by a desire to enhance accuracy and efficiency of reporting.
• Excellent communication skills. Ability to communicate with customers, suppliers, and all employees in an appropriate manner.
• Excellent Excel skills - minimum VLOOKUPS and Pivot Tables.
• Good Microsoft Office skills - Word, PowerPoint.
• Previous experience with Sage 200 or similar accounting software.
• Previous experience with ERP systems.