Management Accountant - Art Logistics

Our client, a world class logistics business who specialise in the creative/art space, have been around for over 45 years, and are looking to hire a Management Accountant who will report into the Financial Controller within their finance team.

The role is a 6 month FTC with scope for the role to be made permanent depending on performance and market conditions over the first 6 months.

Job purpose

The Management Accountant is a key role within the team, responsible for accurate financial reporting and business analysis as well as providing support to the FC in business planning.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of monthly management accounts and KPIs
• Complete the production of monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Gain a good understanding of cost base and account for variances at month end
• Reconcile monthly revenue to cost of sales and work with the business to investigate and explain differences (WIP knowledge desirable)
• Produce a weekly cash flow forecast and monitor capital expenditure projects
• Providing value add business analysis, proactive business partnering
• Review weekly estimate and conversion reports prior to submission
• Work with the Financial Controller to structure Finance processes to achieve accounting best practice
• Undertake process review of scheduled tasks, streamline and/or automate where possible
• Review the submission of all statutory returns, including VAT, National Statistics and Insurance renewals
• Provide holiday cover for other team members
• Assist in annual audit
• Participating in projects
• Respond to ad hoc reporting requirements as required

Skills & Person specification

• Part qualified or finalist ACCA/CIMA Accountant
• 2 years current experience of management accounting within industry or practice
• Highly numerate with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent computer literacy, including strong Excel skills (advanced analytical abilities)
• Experience of extracting data from finance ledger systems and business systems to provide profitability analysis (Access Dimensions useful but not essential)
• Confident and effective communicator, with finance and non-finance colleagues
• Persistent character with the ability to challenge processes