Management Accountant

TipTopJob; Worcester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

TipTopJob in Worcester seeks a Management Accountant to lead the finance function in a stock-intensive SME. You will manage a five-person team, produce monthly management accounts and P&Ls, and drive commercial analysis to support leadership decisions. Strong NetSuite experience and accounting qualifications are preferred, with relocation not available.

Qualifications

• Proven management accounting and financial control experience.
• Previous responsibility for managing an accounts or finance team.
• Strong practical experience of debtors, creditors, cash collection and supplier payment processes.
• Excellent understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and stock.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day finance function including ledgers, cash collection and supplier payments.
• Produce timely monthly management accounts and P&Ls for divisions/branches.
• Analyse sales, gross margin, EBITDA, costs and variances and explain drivers.
• Maintain control of debtors, creditors and working capital metrics.
• Own rolling cash-flow forecasting and coordinate budgets and forecasts.
• Provide profitability analysis by product/division and identify margin leakage.
• Support pricing, purchasing and operational decisions with commercial analysis.
• Improve NetSuite reporting, controls and data quality.
• Lead and develop the five-person finance team.

Skills

Management accounting

Team leadership

NetSuite ERP

P&L analysis

Cash flow

Budgeting

Costing analysis

Debtors & creditors

Stock management

Excel

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA

Tools

NetSuite

Excel

Job description

Management Accountant : Worcestershire

Our client is a recognised and successful family business who provide top:quality construction tools, site supplies and consumables across the UK. In support of their continued growth and market activity, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Management Accountant who will be the day:to:day head of the finance department. This person will lead a team of five and report directly to the Managing Director.

This is not simply a month:end reporting job. The role is for someone who understands how a stock:intensive distribution business makes money, along with running a disciplined finance function and uses the numbers to help the management and senior leadership team, improve the business.

Based at their offices in Worcester, the Management Accountant will:

• : Own the day:to:day finance function, including sales ledger, purchase ledger, debtor and creditor transactions, cash collection and supplier payments.
• : Produce timely and accurate monthly management accounts, divisional and branch P and Ls and useful management information.
• : Analyse sales, gross margin, EBITDA, costs and variances and explain what is really driving performance.
• : Maintain strong control of debtors, creditors, stock and working capital, including debtor days, creditor days, stock turns and return on working capital.
• : Own rolling cash:flow forecasting and coordinate annual budgets and forecasts.
• : Provide customer, product and divisional profitability analysis and identify margin leakage.
• : Support pricing, purchasing and operational decisions with clear commercial analysis.
• : Improve NetSuite reporting, financial controls, process discipline and data quality.
• : Support acquisitions, integration and other commercial or improvement projects when required.
• : Lead, manage and develop the five:person finance team, setting clear standards and priorities.

Ideally CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified, although consideration would be made for an exceptional qualified:by:experience candidate. Preference is for someone from distribution, merchanting, wholesale, manufacturing or another stock:intensive SME.

• : Proven management accounting and financial control experience.
• : Previous responsibility for managing an accounts or finance team.
• : Strong practical experience of debtors, creditors, cash collection and supplier payment processes.
• : Excellent understanding of P and L, balance sheet, cash flow and stock.
• : Commercially strong, curious and willing to challenge when the numbers do not make sense.
• : Strong Excel and data skills and comfortable with ERP systems; NetSuite experience would be particularly valuable.
• : Able to work directly with an entrepreneurial Managing Director and turn financial information into practical actions.

Relocation support is not currently available.