Management Accountant

My client are looking for a Management Accountant to join their busy team in Egham. They are looking for some one Part Qualified (CIMA or ACCA) with experience, office based paying £40Kpa.

Key responsibilities

• Management Reporting, Analysis & Communication
• Produce all regular monthly management accounts [MACs] for QA review by the GFC
• Simplify & improve MACs format, content, and process
• Benchmarking analyses of [Top 20] supplier base, cost base, store performance
• Ad hoc & Value Added analyses to identify profit improvement & cost saving
• Reactivate 6-monthly & annual analyses previously produced, now dormant
• Attend various meetings, on behalf of GFC +/or AFC [e.g. JP meetings]

• MI continuous improvement; eg
  • Interpretation & Variance comments for all entities
  • SSAF for all entities
  • Identify material inconsistency of bookkeeping treatment across entities
  • Automation, Efficiency, Pace, Accuracy, User-friendliness, Relevance
  • EPOS MI development:
    • Learn routines & frequency for all existing EPOS MI [to be able to deputise for AFC if/where needed]
    • Assist AFC in development & deployment of GP enhancing MI and analysis
  • Further analyses as prioritised and required by GFC

• Budgeting Planning and Control
• Preparation of draft Budgets for all entities within the Group, working with the Budget holders to agree planned spend.
• Review and control of spend against budgets.

• Support, maintenance & development of key excel files:
  • Weekly Sales report. New store maintenance, JP changes, landlord changes, Year End graphs and input tab creation for new financial year
  • Fishkeeper Limited billing spreadsheet
  • MACs reporting files
  • Quarterly turnover rent calculations
  • Fixed Asset Register files [& cleanse data per Capex Accounting policy]
  • Quarterly Accruals & Prepayments schedules (working with Bookkeepers)
  • Annual Roll forward of Store MACs
  • Budget model maintenance and roll forward

• Financial accounting
• First port of call for RSM information queries, specifically Analytical Review questions such as 'why has turnover dropped in store 'X'?'
• Maintain appropriate back up documentation
• Incorporation of RSM Audit Journals into MA Sage package, plus refreshing all monthly MACs to correctly reflect the changes
• Technical accounting : first contact to resolve technical issues and advise bookkeepers
• Intercompany matrix review - ensure all intercompany accounts agree across the group monthly (currently done annually only)

• Formal record maintenance: Company secretarial, Equity accounts, Transfer pricing
• Maintain Company secretarial & Profit Share records
• Draft production of Partner Equity statements, for DR QA and swifter issue/timetable
• Ensure transfer pricing agreements from Fishkeeper Limited up to date

Qualifications and Experience

• Part-Qualified Accountant [CIMA or ACCA]
• Advanced skills in Excel
• Knowledge of Sage 200
• Knowledge of EPOS

Personal Qualities

• Confident, Good communicator, Team player
• Critical thinker, change agent looking for continuous improvement
• Self-motivated, keen to learn, commercial mindset
• Ability to work on own initiative, Analytical
• Organised, Hits deadlines, Flexible approach to work
• Attention to detail

Parkside Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Parkside Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.