Job Description

• Full time role working from home with some UK travel (5%). Ideal home location would be somewhere between Bromsgrove and Northampton as we have offices in these locations
• Flexible working hours
• Salary - around £35k-£40k pa + Pension/Vitality private healthcare
• Must have own car and full UK driving licence
• Reporting to Group Finance Director

Qualifications and experience required

• Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA, with experience of preparing monthly Management Accounts (all GBP)
• Must be able to prepare a set of accounts from scratch (Balance sheet and P&L)
• Experience of dealing with stock, accrual, prepayments, intercompany recharges, accrued and deferred revenue and treatment of associated costs based on contracts and revenue recognition standards
• Must have supervisory experience of sales ledger/purchase ledger/VAT/payroll knowledge to provide assistance/advice to junior staff
• Experience of Xero useful but not essential
• Some experience of system implementation helpful as we will move to Microsoft Dynamics later in the next 6 months

Person Spec

• Tenacious and enthusiastic with excellent attention to detail
• Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised
• Proactive, looking to improve/streamline/automate processes
• Able to work to deadlines and prioritise accordingly
• Team/group focused - to help businesses integrate into the FW Group and share resources and centralise accounting functions where possible
• Ability to communicate effectively with non-financial co-worker
• Generally nice hardworking person with a sense of humour

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Preparation of month-end P&L and Balance Sheet for UK-based GBP companies • Analysis of actuals against monthly forecast and annual budget with commentary • Provide assistance to FD with Group forecast for your company • Balance sheet reconciliations and coding checks/amendments • Journaling accrued/deferred revenue and matching costs • Intercompany reconciliations and recharges • Accruals and prepayments • Analysis of gross margin - matching sales and variable costs using project codes • Commission calculations • Sense-checking VAT returns/payroll prepared by Finance Managers • Ensure system is set up to minimise coding errors • Implement better system for recording stock and purchases (minimal stock held) • Provide training to assistants to help with some of the month-end processes