Management Accountant – Shaftesbury

Management Accountant, commercial role in highly successful family business, Shaftsbury, to £50,000

Working for a successful manufacturing company, the Management Accountant will play a key part in  budget setting and monitoring, driving improvements and building relationships around the business. Seeking qualified or part qualified account ACCA CIMA AAT.

The role provides excellent career prospects for an ambitious progressive accountant. As the Management Accountant, you will lead the financial planning, forecasting, and support the Finance Manager in reporting and analysis across the group, identifying trends, risks and opportunities and where necessary provide variance analysis and recommend corrective actions.  Your other day to day responsibilities will include:

• To prepare designated month-end and year-end journal adjustments to agreed deadlines, including accruals and prepayments.
• To manage the collation, interpretation, of accurate weekly and monthly Management accounts & reports according to time schedules agreed.
• Together with the Finance Manager ensure the accuracy of P&L, Balance Sheet reconciliation and cash flow reporting for the group’s businesses including cashflow forecasting.
• To identify key trends in income and expenditure by department / activity program and significant variances from budget. To investigate unusual or unexpected departmental and activity results or variances and to bring these to the attention of the FC.
• Ensure integrity of financial data supplied to the board and external compliance organisations along providing information for audits.
• Provide support to the Finance Director, the co-ordination and production of the annual budget and periodic forecasts as required.