Job Description
The Senior Management Accountant will manage one Finance Assistant and will play a key role in producing monthly management accounts statutory Accounts compliance, supporting audit, budgeting, forecasting, and managing payment cycles. This role is well-suited for a detail-oriented professional who excels at taking initiative, addressing challenges, and enhancing workflows within a collaborative team setting.
Client Details
Our client, a well-established organisation based in North Kent are seeking a Management Accountant to join them on a full time and permanent basis. The successful Management Accountant will be formally qualified, with demonstrable experience in management accounting, consolidation and statutory accounting within a compliance focused environment.
This role offers a hybrid working pattern.
Description
Management Accountant duties include;
* Prepare monthly management accounts, ensuring clarity, precision, and timely review for the Finance Manager. This includes supporting the accounts with high-quality, balance sheet reconciliations.
* Provide confident client-facing support, attending regular finance meetings with the client to discuss operational or process matters.
* Manage a broad range of advanced technical accounting activities, including generation and construction accruals, and detailed fixed asset register.
* Maintain financial governance, including oversight of payments and bank instructions, statutory books, loan note registers, sales invoice approvals, and overall integrity of portfolio financial records.
* Review the payments and bank instructions for approval.
* Prepare the corporation tax payments calculation and manage payments.
* Partner with stakeholders, providing high-quality financial information to Finance Managers, resolving queries. promptly, and building trusted relationships both internally and externally.
* Manage the statutory audit process, liaising with auditors and compiling the statutory audit working papers for submission.
* Process and update the annual operating budget and forecasts in the accounting system.
Profile
The successful Management Accountant should have:
* A completed formal qualification is required (ACA, ACCA or CIMA Qualified)
* Management accounting and statutory accounting experience
* Previous people management experience is required to be considered
* Experience in working closely with senior stakeholders
* Experience working within a compliance focused environment
* Clearly communicate technically complex financial issues
* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
* A highly organised approach with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
* Will consider a first stepper from practice
Job Offer
* A competitive salary range from £60,000 - £65,000 per annum
* Generous holiday leave + bank holidays
* Employer pension contribution
* Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Provisions
* Group Life Assurance Scheme
* Volunteering days
* A collaborative and supportive company culture
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply now for immediate consideration.