Job Description

Key responsibilities:

• Preparation of highly accurate, informative and timely financial and management reports, including:
• Monthly management accounts
• Balance Sheet reconciliations, to ensure integrity and a thorough understanding
• Half year and full year reporting in line with Group requirements
• Annual budget and periodic forecast preparation with detailed support
• Financial, commercial and project analysis to support the business

• Thorough audit preparation and confident communication with Auditors
• Continually implementing and improving effective controls and processes
• Ensuring all transactions are processed in accordance with the correct accounting treatment and standards
• Business partnering to ensure key business drivers are understood by the wider business and actions taken to improve business performance
• Statutory accounts preparation
• Preparation of Corporation tax schedules and VAT returns

Key skills of the Management Accountant:

• A qualified Accountant - ACA, CIMA, ACCA
• 2 years + post qualification experience
• Technically strong, with a high level of management accounting expertise essential
• Analytically competent and naturally inclined to challenge processes and procedures to find practical alternatives
• Proactive, conscientious and inquisitive with a 'can do' attitude
• Fully conversant with UK GAAP with IFRS knowledge
• The ability to quickly adapt to a complex operating environment and engender confidence through involvement with department heads, senior management and financial staff
• A confident individual with strong communication skills at all levels and across all disciplines
• Systems proficiency in Sage, Excel and general accounting and reporting software

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities