Role summary
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We’re looking for an organised and self-motivated Management Accountant to join the Express Divisional team. The role will work closely with operations personnel and central accountants to ensure accurately reported financial information.
The ideal candidate will be a proactive team player, able to prioritise workloads, with the ability to communicate effectively.
Key responsibilities:
1. Analysing and understanding variance to budget and prior periods; highlighting any potential areas of concerns to the appropriate people
2. Prepare the depots’ management accounts so that the operational management team are able to properly assess the financial performance of that location, region or nationally
3. Must be willing and able to visit the depots around the country and assist in training non-financial staff to better use and complete the existing reports
4. Maintenance of the Weekly P&L and supporting files
5. Completion of daily and weekly reporting such as revenue, cost and volumes
6. Actively participate in the preparation of the Depot’s budgets
7. Preparation of monthly accruals and prepayment schedules
8. Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
9. Actively participate in various ad-hoc projects
Measures:
10. All KPIs and variances effectively reported within their region
11. Adherence to Weekly timetable in production of the weekly P&L’s
12. Preparation of depot budgets and forecasts to agreed timetables
13. No evidence of significant variances from budget not reported to Financial Controller on a timely basis
14. Accuracy and consistency in delivering monthly management accounts
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
15. Strong excel skills including working with large amounts of data.
16. Ideally, minimum 1-2 years’ experience in finance function; preferably studying for professional exams
17. The candidate would ideally have experience of supporting non-finance individuals
18. Used to working to and achieving tight deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
19. Some experience of management accounts
20. Financial systems experience desirable
21. Driving licence
Personal Specifications:
22. Have strong analytical and organisational skills and a questioning approach
23. Keen eye for detail
24. Ability to not only create accurate reports but question and review the numbers and their impact
25. Ability to continually review the reports produced by themselves and the team for their effectiveness within the business
26. Tenacity to ensure timetables are met
27. ‘Quality in everything we do, get it right first time’ attitude
28. Strong communication skills are essential
29. Be a team player with ability to follow procedures and guidelines to achieve successful team outcomes
We look forward to hearing from you!