Role Summary
An exciting new Divisional Management Accountant opportunity at DX!
About Us
DX are a market leading provider of a wide range of delivery services, including parcel freight, secure, courier and logistics services.
We provide a wide range of specialist delivery services to both business and residential addresses across the UK and Ireland. We have three divisions, DX Freight, DX Express and DX Logistics. Our approach is straight-forward and no-nonsense. Our goal is to Deliver Exactly to our customers' requirements. Key to what we do at DX is our people and we are incredibly proud of the dedicated team we have built.
At DX, we are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity for all irrespective of race, gender, disability, belief, sexual orientation, age or socio-economic background.
Benefits:
At DX, our people are the foundation of our success. We reward our employees by providing different benefits at various stages of your employment with us, the most recent benefit we have added is Company Healthcare, which you become eligible for after 6 months of continuous service. This is a company paid for scheme at Level 1 allowing you to claim back for dental care and optician fees amongst other things. This is just one of the benefits that come with working at DX, the others are listed below:
Competitive Rates of Pay
Life Assurance
Enhanced Maternity & Paternity
Holidays: 25 days increasing with length of service + bank holidays
Long Service Recognition scheme
Company Pension Scheme
Employee Assistance programme including 24/7 Virtual GP
DX Discounts Portal
Excellent opportunities for career progression
Role summary:
We're looking for an organised and self-motivated Management Accountant to join the Freight 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:
Maintenance of the Weekly P&L and supporting files
Completion of daily reporting such as revenue, cost and volumes
Actively participate in the preparation of the Depot's budgets
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
Analysing and understanding variance to budget and prior periods; highlighting any potential areas of concerns to the appropriate people
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
Preparation of monthly accruals and prepayment schedules
Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
Actively participate in various ad-hoc projects
Measures:
Adherence to Weekly timetable in production of the weekly P&L's
Preparation of depot budgets and forecasts to agreed timetables
No evidence of significant variances from budget not reported to Financial Controller on a timely basis
Accuracy and consistency in delivering monthly management accounts
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Strong excel skills including working with large amounts of data.
Ideally, minimum 1-2 years' experience in finance function; preferably studying for professional exams
The candidate would ideally have experience of supporting non-finance individuals
Used to working to and achieving tight deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
Some experience of management accounts
Financial systems experience desirable
Driving licence
Personal Specifications:
Keen eye for detail
Tenacity to ensure business unit timetables are met
'Quality in everything we do, get it right first time' attitude
Strong communication skills are essential
Have strong analytical and organisational skills and a questioning approach
Be a team player with ability to follow procedures and guidelines to achieve successful team outcomes
We look forward to hearing from you!
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