We are looking to hire a qualified Management Accountant to join our core finance team. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to make a mark in a small but high performing team in a fast paced environment. As a team, we focus on ensuring our reporting is robust, whilst constantly looking to iterate and improve our processes, to maintain our position as an industry leading department.
In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring we can deliver against this mission whilst maintaining a service of uninterrupted BAU. You will be a firefighter for both the core finance team and the wider business to help resolve queries and work on value add projects, meaning a varied and dynamic role.
Responsibilities:
1. Predominantly works on ad-hoc projects within the core finance team, including:
2. Identifying process efficiencies and implementing improvements to enable these
3. Fixing and rebuilding controls and reports
4. Reactive business partnering with stakeholders across the business
5. Is responsible for a majority of the deliverables for the external statutory audit, liaising with the auditors and collating data requests
6. Owns the half year internal audit process, performing controls and accounting procedures
7. Manages the monthly payroll process, liaising with our People team and third-party payroll providers
8. Reviews output from junior team members during the month end process and creating the management accounts to ensure an accurate and timely month end close
9. Owns treasury management, including cash forecasting, optimising savings and managing KYC.
Requirements
To be successful in this role you will need to have a rounded skill set as well as a fantastic work ethic. We're a high-performance, open and honest team, always pushing to learn and develop. We believe the right person for this role will:
10. Enjoy independent working
11. Be able to adapt to switching priorities and tasks, reacting to business needs as these change
12. Have a desire to challenge existing thinking around how we perform our work
13. Have a drive to problem solve, rising to and overcoming complex and unique challenges
14. Have a strong sense of professional judgement for resolving issues.
We are looking for someone who is:
15. Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA
16. Has been working in a finance/accounting based role for at least 3 years (including time to qualify)
17. Proficient in technical accounting, able to research and apply accounting treatment to significant or new transactions
18. A Microsoft Excel expert.... and willing to learn more
19. Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
20. Has solid month end and audit experience
Benefits
21. Our Ways of Working: We come into the office between 2-4 days a week and we're always in on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We strongly believe that in-person collaboration and time spent together as a team allows us to deliver high impact work, but the flexibility to also work remotely supports our diverse team.
22. Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst’s holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
23. Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.
24. Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service
25. Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start..
26. Training Allowance: We’re big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources.
27. Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People’s Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.
28. Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You’ll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses.
29. Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them.
30. Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work.
31. Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more.