Senior Management Accountant

WH Finance Ltd; Cirencester; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

WH Finance Ltd is seeking a bright and ambitious Senior Management Accountant to drive financial discipline in a rapidly growing SME. The role focuses on budgeting across UK, USA and South Africa, monthly management accounts, and improving business systems.

Key responsibilities include stock control, order processing, debtor/creditor management and VAT compliance, with opportunities for future progression to Financial Director in a growing environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant or part-qualified with SME experience.
• Experience in SME with minimal supervision and meeting deadlines.
• Excellent MS Office and Sage accounting knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Create and oversee company budgets for the UK, USA and South Africa businesses.
• Preparation of quarterly management accounts.
• Stock control and warehouse & customer services to ISO 9001:2015.
• Process sales orders, purchase orders and internal works orders.
• Debtor management and collection; creditor reconciliation and month-end payments.
• VAT returns preparation and bank reconciliation.

Skills

MS Office

Analytical skills

Strong organisation

Communication

Education

Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)

Part qualified with experience

Tools

Sage Accounts

Sage Payroll

Job description

My client is a specialist niche manufacturing business and they are now looking to recruit a bright and ambitious Senior Management Accountant who is looking to make a real difference within a rapidly growing business with plenty of space for career progression.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and oversee company budgets for the UK, USA and South Africa businesses
• Preparation of quarterly management accounts
• Reconciliation of budgets against forecasts
• Management of warehouse & customer services to ISO 9001:2015
• Proactive in improving business systems and operating procedures
• Stock Control
• Process Sales Orders
• Process Purchase orders and Internal Works Orders
• Approve and send out Customer invoices
• Debtor management and collection
• Creditor reconciliation and Month End Payments
• Bank reconciliation
• Preparation of VAT returns
• Regularly review project spends and raise any issues or concerns with team to ensure any potential issues are addressed
• Proactively develop financial analysis to help improve the efficiency of the business as a whole

Skills & Experience:

• A qualified accountant, part qualified or QBE with relevant experience
• Used to working in a fast paced SME environment with a minimum of supervision to agreed deadlines
• Highly methodical and organised candidate with a strong character, able to set and meet goals
• Excellent working knowledge of using the MS Office Package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), Sage Accounts and Sage Payroll
• Ability to build and maintain excellent rapport face to face and over the phone

This is a great opportunity if you have previous experience gained in an SME business and you are looking to become FD in the future.