Senior Management Accountant

Salary: £54,000 per year

Senior Management Accountant
£54,000 per annum – £65,000 per annum
Daventry
Permanent

SF Recruitment are excited to be working with a fantastic SME, Enginerring & Manufacturing business to find a Senior Management Accountant to join the team. Reporting directly into the Finance Director, the key responsibilities of the role are to ensure accurate maintenance & reconciliation of accounting records, budgeting and periodic reporting of revenue, profit and cashflow and production of monthly management accounts. Our client is considering a broad range of experience levels as they are willing to offer a high level of development.

Responsibilities:

– Analysing financial information to assist business profitability and growth
– Providing accurate and sound management reporting to assist with key decision making
– Producing month end and year end journals
– Preparing management accounts and by supporting the preparation of statutory accounts, to include variance analysis, commentaries and all supporting working schedules
– Ensuring all revenue is recognised appropriately
– Ensuring all actual costs and anticipated costs are correctly recorded and reconciled to expected costs
– Contributing to the annual budgeting, costing and planning processes
– Reviewing accounting processes and practices and improve where necessary to ensure efficient financial operations
– Understanding the roles and responsibilities of others in the team to cover for absence
– Carrying out the consolidation and analytical review for review by Head of Finance
– Ensuring all postings for engineering contracts are in line with the project contracts
– Providing analysis of project status, budgeting and actual financial reporting to include variance analysis and commentaries
– Reviewing and summarising project work in progress
– Developing and implementing systems to improve workflow and communication
– Developing relationships with Project Managers and a knowledge of the specific contract details
– Maintaining the weekly cash flow projections and summaries
– Commercial awareness: the ability to make sound business judgments ‘on the spot’, awareness of small business needs and how to develop the business
– Being result and target driven
– Customer Service Excellence: To listen to customer needs and respond accordingly.
– Compliance with all departmental H&S requirements
– Compliance, where appropriate with management, & environmental, systems, such as ISO 9001 & ISO 14001

Skills & Experience:

– Advanced Excel (data manipulation), PowerPoint, and Word skills.
– Administrative Skills: Completer/finisher; Continuous Improvement: Implement and set up new systems.
– A can-do attitude, ability to provide solutions/best practice for business requirements
– Experience of Costing/Project Costing, WIP, Accruals accounting
– Previous experience in the manufacturing sector preferred
– CIMA/ACCA/QBE considered