About this role
- Annual Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum
- Location: Denbigh
- Job Type: Full-time, Office-based
We are seeking a Management Accountant to join our dynamic client at their Denbigh Head Office. This role involves taking ownership of a range of accounting, financial control, and project responsibilities across our six group companies. Reporting directly to the CFO, this position is integral to bringing the accounting for our smaller group companies fully in-house and contributing to the financial health of the organisation.
Day-to-day of the role
- Bring the accounting for the smaller group companies in-house, collaborating with external accountants to establish accurate opening balances and complete supporting records.
- Prepare monthly accounts for those companies, including profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, journals, reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
- Own allocated balance-sheet reconciliations, investigating historical differences, resolving discrepancies, and ensuring balances are clearly explained and supported.
- Maintain intercompany reconciliations across the group, ensuring transactions and balances agree between companies.
- Monitor expenditure against agreed budgets, investigate coding issues, and highlight significant variances.
- Prepare and maintain budgets and forecasts, updating agreed assumptions and explaining significant differences between actual results and expectations.
- Maintain cash-flow forecasts for the smaller group companies, identifying funding requirements and emerging risks.
- Validate the source data and definitions used in financial reporting, ensuring information is accurate, consistent, and traceable.
- Support year-end work by providing accurate records, reconciliations, and explanations for the areas owned by this role.
- Take ownership of agreed finance projects, including process improvements, automation, and the financial integration of new sites and acquisitions.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Strong practical management accounting experience, with the ability to prepare reliable accounts and supporting schedules independently.
- Ideally fully qualified – CIME/ACA/ACCA
- Experience of month-end accounting, including journals, accruals, prepayments, depreciation, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
- Confident Excel and accounting-system skills, with the ability to reconcile, analyse, and explain financial information accurately.
Benefits
- Modern office environment with refreshments provided during office attendance.
- Free on-site parking.
- 28 days annual leave, increasing incrementally to 33 days after five years’ service.
- Annual pay review.
This is a great role for someone who is looking to add value to a business that is growing. My client is looking at getting the ball rolling straight away so if you are interested, apply now!