Management Accountant NEW
An environmentally conscious manufacturing company near Caerphilly are expanding their finance team and recruiting for a Management Accountant on a permanent basis.
Reporting to the Head of Finance and working with a small team, this role will play a key part in strengthening financial controls, improving reporting processes, supporting cash flow management and providing commercial insight to drive efficiency and growth.
Management Accountant duties
- Delivering a robust and efficient month-end close process, including the reconciliation of general ledger accounts, posting of accruals & prepayments and ensuring the accuracy, completeness and appropriate cut-off of the financial data.
- Preparing P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow reports.
- Preparing consolidated management accounts with supporting variance analysis and value-add, insightful narrative to support management decision-making.
- Leading the year end close process.
- Being the principal point of contact for audit fieldwork.
- Support the Head of Finance in preparing annual budgets, rolling forecasts and longer-term financial plans.
- Work with Head of Finance to develop robust and commercially realistic budgets.
- Analyse actual performance against budget, forecast and prior-year results.
- Identify and explain financial variances, providing actionable recommendations.
- Provide forward-looking analysis to identify financial risks, opportunities and emerging trends.
Management Accountant person specification
- Fully qualified Management accountant with strong post-qualification or equivalent relevant management accounting experience.
- Strong track record of independently managing the full month-end close and management accounts process.
- Comprehensive understanding of profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow reporting.
- Extensive experience of accruals, prepayments, depreciation, fixed assets and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Strong budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and financial modelling capabilities.
- Demonstrable experience of commercial finance and business partnering.
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret financial information and provide meaningful explanations to non-financial audience.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience of an accounting software system.
An opportunity to join an established company in an important role. A chance to take ownership of the month-end close, management accounts preparation, financial reporting and commercial analysis to inform commercial decisions.
As well as the salary there are 25 days annual leave, company pension, private healthcare provisions and additional benefits.
Hybrid working (three office days) is available after completing probation period which is three months.
Due to location, own transport is essential.
If this role is not quite right for you but you know someone suitable, be sure to use our £500 Candidate Referral Scheme.
Bowen Eldridge is acting as a Finance Recruitment Agency.