Senior Management Accountant

WH Finance Ltd; Poole; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

WH Finance Ltd seeks a Senior Management Accountant to drive budgeting and management reporting across UK, USA and South Africa. You will manage VAT, debtor/creditor processes, and bank reconciliations while improving systems and procedures in a growing SME.

Ideal candidates are qualified or part-qualified accountants with SME experience, strong MS Office and Sage credentials, and excellent communication skills to liaise with multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant or QBE with SME experience
• Ability to work with minimal supervision to deadlines
• Highly methodical and organised with a strong character
• Excellent MS Office and Sage Accounts/Sage Payroll knowledge
• Strong communication and stakeholder rapport skills

Responsibilities

• Create and oversee budgets for the UK, USA and South Africa businesses
• Prepare quarterly management accounts
• Reconcile budgets against forecasts and manage month-end
• Oversee warehouse and customer services to ISO 9001:2015
• Develop financial analyses to improve business efficiency
• Stock control and processing of orders/invoices
• Debtor and creditor management
• Bank reconciliations and VAT returns
• Review project spends and flag issues
• Support future FD progression

Skills

Qualified accountant

Part qualified

QBE

MS Office

Sage Accounts

Sage Payroll

stakeholder communication

Education

Professional accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

Sage Accounts

Sage Payroll

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

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.