Management Accountant
Goodman Masson
BelvedereOne of the UK's leading Energy and Waste management firm currently require a management accountant to join their finance team on a permanent basis. Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the job holder will be a Management Accountant within the finance team, taking primary responsibility for several entities within the business. This will involve typical monthly activities, such as preparing relevant journal entries, ensuring management accounts are prepared on a timely basis, ensuring intercompany invoicing is up to date and that prepayment and accruals are recorded correctly. In addition to this the jobholder will be expected to business partner with relevant parts of the business and will be a key liaison between the finance department and operational teams. Also, the individual will be the main contact in the finance department for our complex municipal waste agreements, ensuring that the accounting for these is recorded correctly each month, and invoicing is up to date and has been calculated in line with the underlying contracts.
Specific Duties:
- Timely preparation of monthly management accounts for a specific business unit, including preparation and posting of key monthly journals, including ensuring un-invoiced income is accrued correctly, and the accounts system is reconciled to the weighbridge system.
- Leading the monthly reviews with operations teams and management for the entities being looked after. Business partnering with operational teams across the business.
- Key finance contact for the administrators within the councils with whom we have complex waste management contracts. Duties include:
- preparing the invoices for all such contracts in a timely fashion;
- regular reconciliation of deliveries between the weighbridge system and council records;
- ensuring price uplifts are applied appropriately per the contracts; and any other reporting requirements required by the councils from time to time.
- Taking the lead to ensure invoicing is completed across all business units, including intercompany invoicing.
- Monitoring of the weighbridge system on a regular basis to ensure tickets are being recorded correctly.
- Ensuring intercompany accounts balance each month end, and invoicing is up to date and recorded in line with relevant intercompany agreements.
- Assisting with the year end audit and statutory accounts preparation in conjunction with the Group Reporting Manager.
- Assisting the Senior Management Accountants throughout the annual budgeting process and with quarterly forecasting
- Ensure strict conformity at all times to company policies and procedures and ensure these are constantly reviewed to check they are in line with best practice.
- Assist with ad hoc project work including the transition to a new suite of integrated systems to automate the accounts function. Assist in planning, monitoring the progress of and reporting on specific aspects of the project both internally and externally.
- Preparation of payment runs, and ensuring new suppliers are recorded on the system in line with company procedures.
Requirements
- Part qualified accountant with industry experience or qualified accountant
- Management account preparation
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Business partnering
- Ability to understand detailed payment mechanisms embedded within contracts
- Self-Starter – ability to identify areas requiring improvement
- Team player with high level of people management skills
- Strong ability to manage time/Project management
- Communication Skills (both Internal and External)
- Attention to detail
- Commercial Acumen
- Problem solving
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Knowledge of FRS 102
- Experience of Access or similar accounting package
- Excel
- Other Microsoft Office
- Proven track record of success
- Experience working in a similar sized finance team
- Preparation of statutory accounts
- Preparation of management accounts
- Waste Industry
- Energy sector
Benefits
£30 - 35k
Senior Accountant
Client of Remote Software Solutions
Orpington, LondonJob Description
An opportunity has arisen in an established fast growing boutique Accountancy firm. We are looking for an ambitious, hardworking and practice experienced individual to join our dynamic team as a Senior Accountant.
Key Responsibilities and Skills
The responsibilities of this role will require working in all aspects of the Accountancy profession such as bookkeeping, accounts production and Tax. You will be directly responsible to the Managing Partner.
The senior role requires:
- Building and maintaining strong client relationships
- Preparing working papers and annual accounts for sole traders and owner managed SMEs
- Prepare statutory accounts in accordance with UK FRS 105 and FRS 102A
- Prepare corporation tax returns for our clients with small-sized companies
- Review VAT returns and submissions
- Communicating with clients
- Liaise with HMRC on behalf of clients
- Supervise a team of accountants and train staff as appropriate.
Person Specification:
- Previous experience in a similar position
- Work confidently with various computer and accounting software ideally with Xero.
- Up to date financial and tax regulations
- Quality assurance and customer care
- Effective business communication and team working spirit
- 3+ years of practice experience
- Good oral/written English skills
This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and forward thinking firm and really progress your career.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £35,000.00 /year starting. Part time opportunity available.
Experience:
- Accounting: 3 years (Preferred)
Please forward you CV and a covering letter
Management Accountant
Candidate Source
Dartford, SouthernOverseeing an accounts team of 6 people, as the Management Accountant you will:
- Be responsible for the creation of management accounts.
- Support the Financial Controller with weekly forecasts.
- Develop a strong commercial awareness of the budgets and forecasts.
- Reconcile the balance sheet.
- Process payroll.
- Submit online filing for FPS / EPS, tax returns and pension submissions.
- Collate the weekly KPIs for the warehouse / transport operations.
The successful Management Accountant will have the following skills and experience:
- ACCA / CIMA part-qualified or qualified accountant through experience.
- Strong ledger knowledge.
- Experience in managing a team.
- Excellent IT skills – knowledge of Pegasus Opera would be desirable but not essential.
- Good numeracy skills with an eye for detail.
- Your own transport will be required due to the location of the company.
In return, you will receive a salary of £28,000 - £35,000 pa plus pension.
If this sounds like the Management Accountant role for you, click the apply link online and send an updated copy of your CV today!
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Revenue Accounting Manager
Secret Escapes
London, England, United Kingdom, ENGWe are looking for a newly qualified Accountant to join our expanding Finance team. This would be a great first move for someone coming out of practice.
About Secret Escapes
Secret Escapes is the UK’s biggest members-only website that runs best-in-market flash sales of four- and five-star hotels and holidays worldwide. We offer our members exclusive rates of up to 60% off.
We're looking for grafters and self-starters to join the gang, who can keep up with the pace and want to make a difference. We're not afraid to get our hands dirty and we're all madly passionate about our brand.
If you're ambitious, excel at what you do and you want to help us add a few more impressive things to our list of achievements, then we'd love to hear from you.
Overall Job Purpose
This is an exciting opportunity to join our finance team, with a remit across all product revenue streams and plenty of scope for developing experience technically and team management.
Main Responsibilities
The Revenue Accounting Manager will work closely with the Head of Accounting to ensure systems and processes are set-up correctly and scalable for growth.
Responsibilities will include the following, but may develop to reflect both ability and the strategy of the business:
- Month-end close accounting of travel revenues and costs
- Month-end provision adjustment accounting
- Review of intercompany consolidation eliminations
- Month-end close accounting of Package travel revenues and costs
- Management of, and working closely with, a team of four to ensure regular entries are accounted in Netsuite related to our travel bookings
- Assisting with year-end accounts preparation including balance sheet reconciliations
- Working with our Product & Data teams to streamline processes and improve
Skills/Requirements
- Qualified Accountant
- Strong academic record
- Sound technical knowledge of IFRS
- Team player
- Excellent attention to detail whilst being pragmatic
- A mentality of ownership and delivery
- Excellent verbal communication with the ability to communicate clearly & effectively with colleagues at all levels
- Excellent Excel skills
- Cleared to work in the UK/EU
Beneficial but not essential
- Experience of NetSuite or Concur
- Experience of Excel Power Query or SQL
- Familiarity with Tableau reporting
Things you should know
We are a team of diverse and friendly faces. Be prepared for random trivia moments, some terrible puns and a modern approach to finance.
We are an equal opportunity employer:
Diversity and inclusion are important to us at Secret Escapes and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We value and actively seek out a richly diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.
Management Accountant
National Health Service
London, LondonManagement Accountant
UCLPartners
The closing date is 15 March 2021
Job overview
UCLPartners (UCLP) is a not-for-profit social enterprise. We support our partners to collaborate across a number of health and social care settings. We share practical and evidence-based solutions as well as methods for building capability and supporting system change. In 2019/20, we report an annual income and expenditure of ~£9.5m.
The Management Accountant is an important member of the Finance function. We support our colleagues and partners in the delivery of solutions for the benefit of patients. Due to the huge variety of projects undertaken by UCLP, there is scope for the Management Accountant to develop their skills and experience and to support the delivery of and be involved in the service offering UCLP provides.
Main duties of the job
The Management Accountant is a part-qualified accountant who is a proactive, adaptable, diligent and professional, a team player with a can do attitude.
Following the successful implementation of SAP By Design in August 2020, the Management Accountant will play an important role in key operational and financial delivery of the finance function.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Purchase and Sales Ledgers- manage ledgers, process invoices and payments, resolve queries and invoice discrepancies
- Monthly management accounts- Perform month-end processes (e.g. reconciliations)
- Finance system- work with IT and system provider to resolve any issues
- Financial control and governance- actively promote compliance of key controls, policies and regulations
- Year-end external audit- support work on audit
- External reporting- assist the preparation of HMRC and regulatory reports (e.g. VAT returns)
- Finance analysis, forecasting and budgeting- assist with analytical and planning work
About us
UCLPartners (UCLP), is one of the largest academic health science partnerships in the world, encompassing more than 40 health care providers and universities that together serve a population of 6 million people in London and surrounding areas.
Joining UCLP, you will be working in a partnership of world-leading academic and clinical research centres, NHS organisations, industry, patients and others. UCLP aim to harness research and innovation for excellent patient care and a healthier population.
You will have the opportunity to develop your career in a fast moving and innovative environment where improving the lives of patients and populations is our common goal. Visit our website to find out more: https://uclpartners.com/
We are committed to recognising the diversity of our individuals and promote this through marking key dates that acknowledge the contributions of many communities, alongside activities to ensure that equality is at the forefront of our work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Background
UCLPartners (UCLP), is one of the largest academic health science partnerships in the world, encompassing more than 40 health care providers and universities that together serve a population of 6 million people in London and surrounding areas.
We are a not-for-profit social enterprise and support our partners to collaborate across a number of health and social care settings.
We act as a healthcare hub, bringing together academics, healthcare professionals, primary care, universities, and community services. We share practical and evidence-based solutions as well as methods for building capability and supporting system change.
Read more about us here https://uclpartners.com.
Introduction Finance Function
The Finance function is an integral part of UCLP and supports our programme teams and wider partners and stakeholders in the delivery of solutions in health and social care for the benefit of patients.
The Finance function covers all day to day financial operations and aims to provide high quality, value-adding service to our colleagues in order to achieve UCLPs organisational goals and objectives.
Team
The Finance team supports the business in the successful delivery of strategic financial objectives. This is achieved through effective finance business partnering, provision of timely, relevant and useful financial and management information, and through effective management, development and operation of internal financial processes, controls and governance.
Due to the huge variety of projects undertaken by UCLP, there is scope for the Finance team to play a key role in utilising finance skills to support and be involved in the service offering UCLP provides to our partners and the wider health and social care system.
UCLP implemented its new finance and purchasing system SAP By Design in August 2020 and this new system has transformed legacy ways of working across the entire organisation. We are seeking a new team member who is, ideally, already familiar with SAP By Design (or has significant experience of working with a similar finance system designed for SMEs) and can quickly adapt to new systems and processes.
Role description
High level summary
The Management Accountant will likely be a part or near qualified accountant who possess a proactive, collaborative and can do attitude, is a team player and is professional, diligent and adaptable.
Key Responsibilities
Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
Management and Control of Sales and Purchase Ledgers
- To be the main person responsible for the day to day efficient management and control of sales and purchase ledgers, record of credit card transactions, banking and balance sheet account reconciliations
- For sales: this includes timely raising of sales invoices, credit control, liaising with customers, debtor reconciliations and accounting for accrued and deferred income.
- For purchases: this includes liaising with suppliers to manage queries, processing purchase invoices, monitoring purchase orders in SAP By Design, assisting non-finance users with the purchasing system and ensuring that budget holders are able to approve purchase orders in the system, setting up automatic payment runs, ensuring accruals and prepayments are booked correctly each month, and creditor reconciliations.
- Other duties include bank reconciliations, oversight of company credit card accounts, employee expense claims processing and other ad-hoc banking/transactional tasks
Month End Reporting and Management Accounts
- Assist other Finance colleagues in the monthly process of the production of management reports (including financials) in a format that is useful to budget holders.
- To support budget holders by answering queries and performing financial analysis on income and expenditure as appropriate.
Year End Audit
- To support the year end audit process, including preparation of audit schedules and analysis.
Forecasting and Budgeting
- To assist the Finance team with forecasting and budgeting
- To support the Finance Business Partner / Director in the preparation of management reports
Financial Control & Governance (incl. Finance Systems)
- To comply with and actively promote internal controls and governance to ensure compliance with legal, tax and regulatory requirements
- To be able to explain to non-finance colleagues UCLPs financial processes and controls to improve wider compliance with relevant policies and procedures.
- Assist with maintenance and upkeep of new finance system SAP By Design
- Other Duties
- To support the Finance team in the provision of high quality, relevant, accurate and timely financial information and reports to all stakeholders.
- To provide finance analysis as required.
- To provide holiday cover for other team members and this includes performance of finance colleagues duties when required.
- To assist in other ad hoc report production and checking of HMRC compliance
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Keen interest in systems and software
- Practical problem-solver
- Ability to work as part of a team and establish and maintain good working relationships
- Excellent customer service and professional communication skills
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Independent and proactive
- Ability to work accurately with attention to detail
- Advanced level of Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Word
Experience
Essential
- Prior experience with SAP By Design (or similar accounting software)
- Exposure to management and financial reporting
- Exposure to year-end audit process
- Exposure to working in an environment where organisational priorities can change at short notice
- Exposure to working in a small to medium sized entity
Desirable
- Prior experience with SAP By Design
- Experience working in the healthcare sector
Qualifications
Essential
- Part-qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
Employer details
Employer name
UCLPartners
Address
U C L Partners
170 Tottenham Court Road
London
W1T 7HA
Employer's website
Management Accountant
Mediacom
London, ENAbout GroupM
GroupM is the leading global media investment management operation serving as the parent company to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, Wavemaker and MediaCom, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people. Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com.
The Role Objective
The main purpose of the role is to prepare the monthly management accounts for reporting to both GroupM management and WPP group (EMEA). This requires detailed variance analysis and exception reporting. A key component of this role is to ensure salaries reporting is completed on a timely basis. This demands complete confidentiality due to the sensitive nature of subject matter. The role will liaise closely with Payroll department to ensure that salaries are processed accurately on a monthly basis and are accounted for within the ledger system.
Responsibilities
Month-end process/Year end & variance analysis
- Calculation of accruals & prepayments of income, costs and inter-company, using IFRS principles. Prepare and post journals
- Prepare monthly Management Accounts reconciled to TB
- Monthly variance analysis (by comparing to budget/forecast) and exception reporting
- Monthly & quarterly balance sheet reconciliations / ensure that all salary control accounts are reconciled monthly
- Action any queries post month-end; i.e AP mis-posting etc.
- Reconciliation of monthly payroll to rolling budget
- Reporting of headcount to gross salaries on a monthly basis
- Run revenue reports and prepare variance analysis for the PBU team prior to the PBU team’s monthly presentation
- Consolidating all reports/P&L and reconciling the retained earnings
- Assist with the SOX and year-end audit by providing all relevant information to the auditors
Group / WPP reporting
- Upload and publish internal, management & external TB’s into Cartesis
- Liaise with EMEA to resolve reporting queries
- Submit commentaries to EMEA on a monthly basis
- Deal with EMEA’s new reporting requirements
- Prepare and submit quarterly packages (CSR. Client profitability, Letter of rep and questionnaire, Local books to Cartesis, Other assets and liabilities, deferred revenue)
- Prepare and submit the year-end packages
Annual budgeting & rolling forecast
- Collecting inputs from department heads to feed into the rolling forecast and annual budgeting processes
- Supporting Finance Manager with the preparation of the annual budgets
Business Partnering
- Business partnering through engagement with business on a regular basis including face-to-face meetings
- Adding value to operational teams through analysis, reporting etc.
Skills and Behaviours
Desirable
- Experience working with DDS / Media Ocean
- Experience working with Cartesis / BFC
Essential
- Intermediate / advance level of Excel
- Organized with good attention to detail
- Quick to learn and adaptable to changing work allocation and able to prioritise workload to meet challenging deadlines
- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills
- Strong communication & relationship building skills
- Enthusiastic with a can do attitude
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Management Accountant
GroupM
LondonAbout GroupM
GroupM is the leading global media investment management operation serving as the parent company to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, Wavemaker and MediaCom, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people. Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com.
The Role Objective
The main purpose of the role is to prepare the monthly management accounts for reporting to both GroupM management and WPP group (EMEA). This requires detailed variance analysis and exception reporting. A key component of this role is to ensure salaries reporting is completed on a timely basis. This demands complete confidentiality due to the sensitive nature of subject matter. The role will liaise closely with Payroll department to ensure that salaries are processed accurately on a monthly basis and are accounted for within the ledger system.
Responsibilities
Month-end process/Year end & variance analysis
- Calculation of accruals & prepayments of income, costs and inter-company, using IFRS principles. Prepare and post journals
- Prepare monthly Management Accounts reconciled to TB
- Monthly variance analysis (by comparing to budget/forecast) and exception reporting
- Monthly & quarterly balance sheet reconciliations / ensure that all salary control accounts are reconciled monthly
- Action any queries post month-end; i.e AP mis-posting etc.
- Reconciliation of monthly payroll to rolling budget
- Reporting of headcount to gross salaries on a monthly basis
- Run revenue reports and prepare variance analysis for the PBU team prior to the PBU team’s monthly presentation
- Consolidating all reports/P&L and reconciling the retained earnings
- Assist with the SOX and year-end audit by providing all relevant information to the auditors
Group / WPP reporting
- Upload and publish internal, management & external TB’s into Cartesis
- Liaise with EMEA to resolve reporting queries
- Submit commentaries to EMEA on a monthly basis
- Deal with EMEA’s new reporting requirements
- Prepare and submit quarterly packages (CSR. Client profitability, Letter of rep and questionnaire, Local books to Cartesis, Other assets and liabilities, deferred revenue)
- Prepare and submit the year-end packages
Annual budgeting & rolling forecast
- Collecting inputs from department heads to feed into the rolling forecast and annual budgeting processes
- Supporting Finance Manager with the preparation of the annual budgets
Business Partnering
- Business partnering through engagement with business on a regular basis including face-to-face meetings
- Adding value to operational teams through analysis, reporting etc.
Skills and Behaviours
Desirable
- Experience working with DDS / Media Ocean
- Experience working with Cartesis / BFC
Essential
- Intermediate / advance level of Excel
- Organized with good attention to detail
- Quick to learn and adaptable to changing work allocation and able to prioritise workload to meet challenging deadlines
- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills
- Strong communication & relationship building skills
- Enthusiastic with a can do attitude
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Newly Qualified Financial Accounting Manager
S&P Global
LondonGrade 10 (for internal purposes)
In this role you will support the UK based EMEA Controller team by taking ownership and responsibility for matters regarding financial accounting and control for jurisdictions covered by the team in London.
Key Roles & Responsibilities*
+ Preparation and submission of various deliverables to support both internal and external financial reporting needs, including analytical commentary and the preparation of supplementary financial analysis for management and other stakeholders
+ Preparation of financial statements for legal entities in accordance with FRS 101/102
+ Responsibility for month end processes, including the preparation and posting of journals
+ Preparation and review of monthly Balance sheet account reconciliations
+ Main point of contact for statutory audits carried out on legal entities
+ Preparation of monthly/quarterly VAT returns and associated accounting workflows including processing of payment and balance sheet reconciliation of related VAT accounts
+ To lead process improvement projects, identifying and implementing best practice processes across the region.
+ Support the Assistant EMEA Controller on any merger, acquisition and disposal projects and legal entity restructuring projects impacting the region.
Interactions*
Interacts with from junior level through to senior management, both internally and externally
Minimum and Preferred Education
+ ACA / CPA / CA / ACCA or equivalent certification
Minimum and Preferred Experience/Skills
+ Newly Qualified 3 years Relevant audit background / experience
+ Strong technical accounting skills, thorough knowledge of FRS and strong US GAAP/IFRS knowledge
+ Understanding of VAT and general tax accounting
+ Excellent Excel and Microsoft Office skills
+ Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
+ Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization
+ Well organized and able to prioritize conflicting deadlines
+ Attention to detail
+ Delivers excellence with agility and rigor
+ A strong desire to exceed expectations
+ Results orientated
+ Real team player with innate desire to effect change
20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), FINANC202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 255717
Posted On: 2021-02-23
Location: London, United Kingdom
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race - ethnicity, gender, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status (including domestic partnerships and civil unions), sexual orientation, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person. The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.
Management Accountant
Countingup
London, England, United Kingdom, ENGCountingup is on a mission to make running a small business simple. Our vision is that every small business has its accounting and transactions in one place. This will uniquely enable them to manage both quickly, easily, in real-time and at a low cost. We're a venture-backed accounting/financial technology startup.
Countingup is a diverse team of individuals in a venture-backed fintech and early-stage startup, with ambitious plans for growth.
All of us at Countingup are committed to “The Countingup Way”:
- Do your best work
- Enjoy it
- Get it done
About the role
Countingup the business is too large and complex to be suitable for Countingup the product (at least for now). We therefore require completion of many of the traditional accounting and bookkeeping tasks across various tools and software. This includes day-to-day bookkeeping, monthly payroll and journaling, quarterly VAT submissions and completing year-end.
Countingup is looking to grow significantly over the coming years - reporting to the COO, the role will also involve strategic projects. Looking to continuously improve internal processes, leveraging technology to ensure we continue to work efficiently and effectively. Traditional accounting will therefore only be part of the role. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with an interest in performance improvement, business strategy and analytics.
There will be a continuous need to challenge ways of working and look for improvements. The aim will be to improve the performance of the business and ensure spend is aligned to the business goals. There will be the opportunity to shape the role in line with your skillset, interests and professional development ambitions.
- Complete regular bookkeeping tasks
- Complete payroll, journal entries, quarterly VAT submissions, year-end
- Improve our accounting and financial management infrastructure (review current ways of working and software and suggest improvements)
- Analyse data to establish what’s working, what’s not and what to do about it
- Work with the COO to find and implement performance improvement projects (big or small)
- Produce clear and concise outputs that speak for themselves
- Be flexible and open to working with other parts of the business to add value. Your expertise (accounting and analytics) will be valuable to the rest of Countingup and our product development
About you
- You have excellent attention to detail
- You are highly organised and are able to work remotely without direct supervision
- You are an excellent communicator (written and verbal)
- You are good at building and maintaining relationships
- You like working independently to tackle problems and establish a solution
- You also work well in small teams
- You are continuously trying to improve how you work and the results
- You have excellent numerical skills and data manipulation capabilities
- You have strong communication skills both written and verbal
- You are organised and able to prioritise effectively
Your experience
- We’re open to candidates with diverse backgrounds
- You have Accounting qualification(s)
- You have at least 3 years work experience in a professional environment
- You have great capability with:
- An Accounting software (eg. Clearbooks)
- Google sheets or Excel
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- 32 days paid holiday (including public holidays)
- Share options
- Currently we are working remotely and plan to return to a London office when it is sensible (remote work will remain a priority)
- 8% pension contribution
- Team socials
Accounting Manager
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
LondonSalary
£30k - £35k
Job Type
full-time
Posted
4 days ago
Description
One of the UK's leading Energy and Waste management firm currently require a management accountant to join their finance team on a permanent basis. Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the job holder will be a Management Accountant within the finance team, taking primary responsibility for several entities within the business. This will involve typical monthly activities, such as preparing relevant journal entries, ensuring management accounts are prepared on a timely basis, ensuring intercompany invoicing is up to date and that prepayment and accruals are recorded correctly. In addition to this the jobholder will be expected to business partner with relevant parts of the business and will be a key liaison between the finance department and operational teams. Also, the individual will be the main contact in the finance department for our complex municipal waste agreements, ensuring that the accounting for these is recorded correctly each month, and invoicing is up to date and has been calculated in line with the underlying contracts.
Specific Duties:
- Timely preparation of monthly management accounts for a specific business unit, including preparation and posting of key monthly journals, including ensuring un-invoiced income is accrued correctly, and the accounts system is reconciled to the weighbridge system.
- Leading the monthly reviews with operations teams and management for the entities being looked after. Business partnering with operational teams across the business.
- Key finance contact for the administrators within the councils with whom we have complex waste management contracts. Duties include:
- preparing the invoices for all such contracts in a timely fashion;
- regular reconciliation of deliveries between the weighbridge system and council records;
- ensuring price uplifts are applied appropriately per the contracts; and any other reporting requirements required by the councils from time to time.
- Taking the lead to ensure invoicing is completed across all business units, including intercompany invoicing.
- Monitoring of the weighbridge system on a regular basis to ensure tickets are being recorded correctly.
- Ensuring intercompany accounts balance each month end, and invoicing is up to date and recorded in line with relevant intercompany agreements.
- Assisting with the year end audit and statutory accounts preparation in conjunction with the Group Reporting Manager.
- Assisting the Senior Management Accountants throughout the annual budgeting process and with quarterly forecasting
- Ensure strict conformity at all times to company policies and procedures and ensure these are constantly reviewed to check they are in line with best practice.
- Assist with ad hoc project work including the transition to a new suite of integrated systems to automate the accounts function. Assist in planning, monitoring the progress of and reporting on specific aspects of the project both internally and externally.
- Preparation of payment runs, and ensuring new suppliers are recorded on the system in line with company procedures.
Requirements
- Part qualified accountant with industry experience or qualified accountant
- Management account preparation
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Business partnering
- Ability to understand detailed payment mechanisms embedded within contracts
- Self-Starter – ability to identify areas requiring improvement
- Team player with high level of people management skills
- Strong ability to manage time/Project management
- Communication Skills (both Internal and External)
- Attention to detail
- Commercial Acumen
- Problem solving
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Knowledge of FRS 102
- Experience of Access or similar accounting package
- Excel
- Other Microsoft Office
- Proven track record of success
- Experience working in a similar sized finance team
- Preparation of statutory accounts
- Preparation of management accounts
- Waste Industry
- Energy sector
Benefits
£30 - 35k