Management Accountant

Management Accountant

Salary £35,000 – £45,000 – dependent on experience

Hours: Monday to Friday: 08.00 – 16.30

Based: Biggleswade & Bedford (Car driver essential due to location)

Our client are specialists in architectural and structural steelwork. We have a fantastic opportunity for a qualified Management Accountant to join a forward thinking and growing business.

Responsibilities – Management Accountant

• Preparing management accounts for group entities, including preparing income statements, balance sheet, cashflows and financial documents for analysis.
• Managing the consolidation process.
• Providing information for auditors and other stakeholders.
• Prepare income statements, balance sheets and other financial documents.
• Measuring the company’s financial performance based on financial records.
• Overseeing other aspects of financial operations such as bookkeeping and payroll.
• Evaluating and monitoring financial information systems and recommending improvements where needed.
• Reconciling balance sheet, preparing month end journals.
• Maintaining fixed asset registers.
• Ensure consistent, precise and timely accounting procedures are adhered to.
• Support and assist with annual internal and external auditing.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key internal stakeholders.
• Variance analysis.
• Balance sheet reconciliations.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement and contribute towards a culture of continuous improvement.
• Attend and contribute to management/department meetings where required.
• Presenting reports to senior management to aid with business decision making.
• Creating financial statements for internal and external company requirements.
• Completing all tax/bank related material.
• Advising on the financial implications of business decisions.
• Compiling strategies that will reduce business costs.
• Controlling income and expenditure within the business and ensuring that expenditure is in-line with budgets.
• Overseeing accounting colleagues and supporting with generic accountancy tasks.
• Communicating with all levels within the organisation and being able to present financial information to non – finance members of staff.
• Completing and submitting monthly application, chasing variation documentation.
• Credit control.

Skills / Experience: Management Accountant

• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• CIMA or equivalent qualification.
• Strong demonstrated use of Excel and accounting Software
• Effective commercial judgement and decision-making
• Meticulous attention to detail

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