Senior Management Accountant

WH Finance Ltd; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

WH Finance Ltd is recruiting a Senior Management Accountant for a growing SME. You will oversee budgets for UK, USA and South Africa, and prepare quarterly management accounts to support rapid expansion.

The role demands a qualified or part-qualified accountant with SME experience, strong MS Office and Sage knowledge, and the ability to drive improvements in systems and processes. Interviews are ongoing.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant, part qualified or QBE with relevant experience.
• Experience in a fast-paced SME environment with minimal supervision.
• Excellent planning, organisation and goal-setting abilities.
• Proficient in MS Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook; Sage Accounts and Sage Payroll.

Responsibilities

• Create and oversee UK, USA and South Africa budgets.
• Prepare quarterly management accounts.
• Reconcile budgets against forecasts.
• Oversee ISO 9001:2015 compliance in warehouse and customer services.
• Develop and improve financial systems and procedures.
• Manage stock and process sales/purchase orders.
• Handle debtor/creditor reconciliation and month-end payments.
• Prepare VAT returns and bank reconciliations.

Skills

MS Office Package (Word, Excel, Power@

Sage Accounts

Sage Payroll

Excellent rapport building

Education

Qualified accountant / Part qualified / QBE

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. Interviews are ongoing so