Management Accountant

A diverse Management Accountancy role within a large business services company based near Cardiff. Managing finances and providing support to the business.

Client Details

A large business services company based near Cardiff, with a European scope and amazing career opportunities.

Description

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Supporting locally based finance staff
• Preparing management accounts, which will involve sight visits
• Reviewing controls and processes in order to make improvements where necessary
• Providing commercial support to the senior managers of certain Group businesses
• Preparing cash flow forecasts
• Liaising with auditors for the annual audit
• Ensuring that supplier and HMRC payments are made on time
• Developing financial reports as required
• Assisting with budget preparation

Additional Responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring there are proper financial controls operating at each sight
• Making regular review visits to subsidiaries
• Carrying out audit reviews of subsidiary businesses to ensure that they are ad-hearing to group procedures
• Ensuring all customers dealt with outside of the Caerphilly Administration department are being invoiced properly and accurately
• Checking that robust credit control procedures are in place and minimising debt levels
• Managing post acquisition/divestment of business
• Carrying out due diligence and data analysis work
• Assisting with Group and subsidiary reporting obligations including financial statements and tax returns

Profile

Successful candidates will display the following characteristics:

Business Focus:

• Has ability to work in a consultative role, advising on improvements and best practice
• Demonstrates commercial awareness and understanding, without compromising financial disciplines
• Ensures that business opportunities are appropriately evaluated to minimise risk and sustain/improve and streamline processes

Communications:

• Provides inclusive and user-friendly management information, meaningful financial analysis, input and advice to divisional colleagues and senior management to assist with understanding KPI reporting
• Communicates positively
• Provides accurate and timely reporting, establishing effective communications with other senior financial colleagues within the Group
• Displays well developed presentation and communication skills, verbally as well as numerically, with good report writing skills
• Open and Honest

Technical and Financial Competencies:

• Holder of recognised accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, ACMA) unless exceptional reasons apply
• Has excellent MS office skills, particularly Excel and Word
• Experience of Sage accounting systems
• Broad financial management background in a business-to-business (or similar) service organisation
• Experience or knowledge of carrying out both external and internal audit work
• Experience of preparing management accounts

Personal Characteristics:

• Willing to travel within the UK, Ireland and Spain
• Prioritises successfully in order to identify and meet key issues and challenges
• Self starter who is able to manage own workload
• Able to work in a deadline driven structured and methodical manner
• Displays ability to challenge
• Positive mentalist
• Displays completer/finisher mentality
• Demonstrates excellent attention to detail whilst retaining ability to see wider business picture
• Remains calm and focused under pressure
• Displays honest, openness and integrity to staff and colleagues
• Gives others credit where due and readily critiques own results and behaviour
• Demonstrates receptiveness to new ideas whatever the source

Job Offer

Competitive basic salary - 30 - 40k p/a

Car allowance

Salary sacrifice pension

20 days per annum holiday plus statutory days and Christmas shut down (3-4 days)

36.25 hours a week

Childcare voucher scheme

Employee discount offers

Free health and well-being support

Free on-site canteen

Free on-site parking