Assistant Management Accountant

Position: Assistant Management Accountant (Permanent)
A prestigious medium sized business who are the best in their industry would like to hire an Assistant Management Accountant. The company and role are super busy, the company is growing and has a brilliant reputation which makes this such a great opportunity.

What makes this role special is that it isn’t just focused on the transactional accounting, but also gives you the opportunity to interact with people both internally as well as customers/suppliers so will suit someone equally at home with people as well as the numbers. Also, you will be encouraged to step up, giving your ideas for improvements in the way things are done, and will have stretch opportunities if you are ambitious and would like to grow within the job.

It therefore best suits someone who is genuinely interested in their career.

Job Role

Duties will include:

* Manage the purchase ledger, processing supplier invoices and reconciling supplier statements, interacting with the suppliers where needed

* Pulling the customer invoices from an order processing system and using Sage 50 to create invoices. You will also play your part in ensuring payments are received and will pick up the phone to encourage payment where there are payment delays, helping to unstick the payments, resolve queries etc

* Post monthly journals

* Collate, audit and process expense payments and post into the accounts

* Get accounts to Trial Balance each month

* Help with creation of monthly accounts narrative and work towards the P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow forecasting

The ideal candidate
To be successful in this role, you will need to be technically competent within management accounts. You will probably be working towards qualification, though if you have enough relevant experience this qualification will be less important. You will also need to be the kind of personality that wants to do the job well, be a perfectionist and take pride in your work.

Ambition would be great as you will be rewarded with being able to get involved with a wide variety of work which will help with your personal development.

Further Information
Benefits are best in class and include bonuses, enhanced pension as well as a number of other innovative benefits.

We will respond to applications that are close enough to the detailed brief to be able to consider on the short list within 2 working days