(AF2319) Senior Management Accountant

Flowers Associates; England; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established financial services firm in Coalville is seeking a Senior Management Accountant / Finance Business Partner to prepare financial statements, analyze performance, and support budgeting and forecasting processes. The ideal candidate will have strong management accounting skills and experience with ERP systems, specifically SAP. A qualification in accounting is preferred, as well as proficiency in Excel.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant preferred with post-qualification experience.
• Proficient in ERP systems with a focus on SAP.
• Strong technical accounting principles.

Responsibilities

• Prepare periodic financial statements including analyses and forecasts.
• Analyze financial performance for business planning.
• Monitor spending against the budget and suggest improvements.
• Ensure compliance with SOX and related standards.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Budgeting

Costing

Communication with non-financial managers

ERP systems proficiency

Excel proficiency

Education

Qualified accountant qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

SAP

Job description

Senior Management Accountant / Finance Business Partner

Coalville, Permanent, To £50k, Site Based, Mon – Fri 0845-1700

The Opportunity

A firm that’s steeped in history, part of an international group of companies are seeking a broadly skilled Senior Management Accountant with specific expertise in Business Partnering, operational accounting i.e. Labour, variance, costing, budgeting, forecasting.

The Role

Reporting to a long standing FC, working with the wider business, you’ll be undertaking the following responsibilities:

• Preparing periodic financial statements, including departmental analysis, forecasts, budgets, cash analysis, variance analysis and commentaries
• Analysing financial performance and contributing to medium and long-term business planning/forecasts
• Customer and production profitability reporting
• Inventory reconciliations, raw materials, finished goods & WIP
• Standard cost reviews
• Intercompany reconciliations
• Working with all departments and the management team to help make financial decisions
• Ensuring spending is kept in line with the budget (monitoring)
• Interpreting and communicating financial data to non-financial managers
• Monitoring and evaluating financial information systems and suggesting improvements where needed
• Ensuring compliance with SOX & Senior Accounting Officer - (including Blackline monthly preparation of balance sheet reconciliations)
• Internal and External Audits
• Statutory Account reporting and Tax Pack analysis
• Assist and cover other roles within the Finance department where necessary

About You:

We're looking for a dynamic and driven individual with the ability to be commercially aware and challenge the status quo. Management accounts expertise including costing goes without saying, however a broader skill set into financial accounting is also required.

You’ll be well adept with ERP systems, ideally SAP as there is a planned system implementation, excel proficient and technically gifted in accounting principals.

Qualified would be preferred with Post Qual experience.