Management Accountant

Management Accountant. Our client is a highly successful and expanding business based in Leicester, part of an international group. It has a great opportunity for an individual to join its Finance team as a Management Accountant, during an exciting period of growth and restructure.

You will be responsible for the management and control of specific balance sheet driven tasks in order to prepare the consolidated Management Accounts for all legal entities. The role will support the creation of a reliable financial control framework to include the review and preparation of key monthly, quarterly and year end account schedules.
Main Tasks & Responsibilities
*To review, create and implement a reliable financial control framework with clear structured processes and procedures.
*To establish, implement and review appropriate accounting schedules at a detailed and group consolidated level.
*To manage and review appropriate sub ledger reconciliations with agreement to the U.S. accounting submissions to the parent company and internal reporting to branches
*To support in ensuring accounting principles are appropriately applied to UK entities and for the U.S. accounting submissions.
*To consolidate at a group level all overseas GAAP differences to align to UK/US GAAP.
*To support in the review, creation and implementation of financial policies and procedures to ensure consistency, accuracy and reliability of financial results and adherence to SOX
*Commentary on financial information and variance to plan and prior period.
*To drive continuous improvement and seek innovative solutions to complex issues and manual time consuming tasks across the Management Accounting function.

Skills and Experience:
*ACA/ACCA/CIMA/AAT qualified (or equivalent) is essential
*Minimum 5+ year’s management accounting experience
*Strong reporting and analytical skills
*Capable of building relationships and influencing a variety of stakeholders
*Excellent knowledge of Microsoft office and ability to manage large amounts of data
*Excellent organisational skills, is able to prioritise and delegate effectively
*Able to work as a team player.
*Ability and understanding of continuous improvement in processes.
*Able to review financial information at all levels providing commentary on key variances to plan and prior period.
*Experience of overseas accounting would be beneficial but is not essential.