Management Accountant

Job Purpose:

To operate as a proactive and effective member of the management team ensuring a robust financial control environment, ensuring financial compliance in all areas, delivering financial & commercial insight into all areas of the businesses performance and highlighting the financial implications of commercial and strategic plans and decisions.Key Role Responsibilities:

As the Management Accountant, you will be working with the Finance Manager to develop a financial strategy to support the Company's continued growth and strategic development. You will assist the Finance Manager of a growing organization operating in a dynamic environment. You will become an integral member of the Finance team.The Management Accountant will be commercially astute and will be able to identify where there are both time and cost-saving initiatives requiring implementation. This is an exceptionally varied role, and tasks will include:

• Assist the Finance Manager to ensures that adequate financial and operational control procedures are in place and are adhered to by the business and result in the appropriate level of financial control and deliver compliance with all Group and external requirements. This covers as examples bank reconciliations, control account reconciliations, adherence to IAS, segregation of duties etc
• Assist Finance Manager to manage the provision of all financial information to the local operations, including (as examples) profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow information, customer and brand performance and profitability, operating cost performance and working capital performance.
• Ensures the accuracy and completeness of all accounting ledgers
• Ensures that adequate financial control procedures relating to decision making are in place and are adhered to by the business and result in the appropriate level of financial control, such as delegation of authorities, cost commitments, purchase order compliance etc
• Manages and ensures that all local corporate, employee, employer and sales tax obligations are met
• Reviews, changes and develops reporting, analysis and control processes to the extent this delivers or facilitates business improvement
• Assist Finance Manager to work within regional and Group timetables and guidance in the provision of information and works closely with Group Finance teams in understanding and communicating business drivers