Job Description

• Prepare the consolidations and statutory accounts
• Reconcile from the statutory accounts to management accounts
• Play a lead role in the external audit, acting as a key  preparing and/or reviewing deliverables and responding to audit queries
• Prepare and/or review monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations; book correcting journals as required
• Provide advice on technical accounting issues
• Prepare and submit Office for National Statistics returns
• Prepare and submit monthly VAT returns
• Assist the business with tax queries
• Manage the accounting for the  platform and other new initiatives
• Prepare and/or review a number of monthly and ad hoc reports for management including cash flow, and sales and gross profit analysis
• Produce title profitability reports and financial analysis to support the senior management team in decision making
• Maintain the cashbook and management accounts
• Input into month-end / management accounting, as required
• Line manage the Finance Assistant, whose responsibilities include credit cards and expenses, cash transactions, bank reconciliations, weekly cash reporting.
• Review and authorize payments.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities