Management Accountant Overheads

Freightliner Group Ltd; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Management Accountant Overheads to join their Birmingham team. This full-time role involves providing key financial support, managing central overhead accounts, and contributing to budgeting and forecasting processes. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and the ability to influence stakeholders, ensuring financial controls are maintained while driving process improvements. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact within a dynamic finance team, enhancing operational efficiency and supporting strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years relevant experience in management accounting.
• Ability to influence stakeholders through financial insights.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of month end journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Provide accurate overhead commentary against budget and forecast.

Skills

Management Account Analysis

Analytical Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Organizational Skills

Proactive Approach

Education

Part Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Tools

Excel

Job description

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Freightliner Group is looking for a Management Accountant Overheads to join our Birmingham team on full time, permanent basis.

Purpose of the Role:

The role is to act as the key finance support for the Financial Controller and central overhead departments within Intermodal. To provide insight and manage the central overhead accounts production, reporting and commentary throughout the month end cycle. To be actively involved on the quarterly forecast and annual budget cycle. Significantly contributing to the Intermodal financial controls review, seeking out opportunities to develop the controls framework and continuously improving process efficiency.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Preparation and posting of month end journals and accruals for specific central overhead departments.
• Preparation of robust month end balance sheet reconciliations for allocated accounts, ensuring all reconciling items are resolved in a timely manner.
• Highlight areas of concern and work with the Financial Controller – to determine and action the appropriate resolution, working with the heads of departments
• Work in close partnership with the Financial Controller to provide accurate, timely overhead commentary of key cost drivers against budget, forecast and prior year.
• Support the Financial Controller to conduct monthly review meetings with budget holders and act as a key point of contact for overhead queries.
• Look for opportunities to continuously improve and streamline business processes and procedures.
• Challenge current ways of working, driving efficiencies and cost savings wherever possible.
• Be hands on and get into detail to ensure you understand the cost drivers of the business and can provide insight to any non-finance stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with Sox narratives and financial controls.
• Assist with audit queries and analysis, both internally and externally.
• Provide support to the Financial Controller with system upgrades, implementation and project governance and controls.
• To be the go-to person for the wider IML finance team to discuss any process challenges and blockers. Actively seek out opportunities to standardise and streamline processes across IML team.

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Key job requirements:

• Part Qualified Accountant at the Final stage of (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with minimum of 2 years relevant experience
• Confident with all areas of management account analysis
• Ability to influence key stakeholders through relevant financial insight.
• Determined and proactive - prepared to get into the detail to understand the overhead cost drivers of the business.
• Good analytical skills and a high attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build healthy working relationship with business stakeholders and interact effectively with all levels of staff.
• Highly effective organisational and time management skills with the ability to work autonomously, prioritising workload and meet deadlines;
• IT literate with intermediate Excel skills
• Delivers goals and objectives with drive, energy and enthusiasm;
• Proactive approach to work and uses own initiative to implement improvements;
• Embraces new challenges, is hands on and gets things done;
• Sets high standards of work for self, and consistently achieves these;
• Listens attentively to others’ perspectives and provides constructive feedback and coaching;
• Exhibits and lives the Group’s core values

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing

• Industries

  Rail Transportation

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