Job Description

As a Management Accountant, your responsibilities will include: 

• Monthly integrity checks data and system.
• Generating the monthly P&L/ Balance Sheet and Cash flow statements including generating the monthly cost centre reporting and reviewing with cost centre managers.
• Developing financial reporting and KPIs for inclusion in the monthly management pack.
• Generating and submitting the quarterly VAT return(s) to HMRC.
• Monitoring energy consumption and negotiating renewed contracts.
• Monitoring Insurances, making sure that adequate cover is in place across the business.
• Managing one purchase ledger clerk.
• Taking responsibility for daily and monthly bank reconciliations.
• Making supplier payments, in line with credit terms and payment run dates.
• Providing for and calculating accruals and prepayments.
• Doing monthly balance sheet reconciliations, providing comprehensive backup for all relevant balances.
• Calculating and posting depreciation and relevant fixed asset register maintenance.
• Valuing stock at month-end, providing for aging and posting relevant journals.
• Generating intercompany recharges and doing the monthly intercompany reconciliations with other group members.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Qualified accountant: CIMA/ACA/ACCA. Strong attention to detail and high levels of accuracy. Demonstratable experience of working in the FMCG/manufacturing industry. Tenacity, focus and the ability to get things done. The ability to communicate and interact across all levels of organisations. French-speaking would be desirable (although not essential).