Job Description

Our client is currently in the market for a Management Accountant to come and join their busy team! The successful candidate will be responsible for the provision of management accounts as well as assisting budget holders in invoices, accruals and generating monthly reports and quarterly forecasts.

Main responsibilities

• Attain knowledge on the structure of the Chart of Accounts and its relevance and apply to the budget areas you work with.
• Manage monthly management accounts and report and distribute to budget holders ahead of the monthly meetings.
• Prepare the quarterly forecast template for Finance Business Partners and distribute to budget holders ahead of meetings.
• Lead on the month end goods receipting process with budget holders and their teams, ensuring that all open purchase orders are appropriately dealt with.
• Interrogating outstanding purchase orders and work with budget holders to cancel purchases that are not required and goods receipt as appropriate.
• Liaise with relevant budget holders and their teams ensuring good practice in using the purchase order system, suggesting improvements to the system as required.
• Support the implementation of process improvement to gain efficiency and reduce cost.
• Become a super user of the budgeting and forecasting system and assist in the training of budget holders and their teams once it is rolled out.

Requirements

• Actively studying towards CIMA/ACCA or willing to undertake study
• Knowledge of eRequest or other purchase order systems.
• Excellent working knowledge of Excel and proven competency in using v-look ups, pivot tables & macros to analyse and manipulate.
• Production of financial reports for finance and non-finance colleagues.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Actively studying towards CIMA/ACCA or willing to undertake study
• Knowledge of eRequest or other purchase order systems.
• Excellent working knowledge of Excel and proven competency in using v-look ups, pivot tables & macros to analyse and manipulate.
• Production of financial reports for finance and non-finance colleagues.