Assistant Management Accountant – Excellent opportunity with industry leading FTSE business!

Stratford, London

Permanent, Full Time

Salary £26,000-30,000pa + full study support and bonus

Industry leading organisation, which is a recognised brand name and boasts global sales of more than £1bn, is presently recruiting for an Assistant Management Accountant. This is a newly created role to join an established finance team. This business is amongst the top 2 industry competitors in Europe and successfully expanding through innovation in growing market sectors.

Reporting to a qualified Management Accountant, the role will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to quickly develop and expand their finance experience in a fast-paced environment. This is a business which recognises hard work and rewards staff with attractive opportunities for career progression. If you're looking to get into an organisation that will open doors for you and drastically enhance your CV then this is the role for you!

Overview of duties:

• Assist in the preparation of monthly management accounts including posting accruals and prepayments, ensuring these are delivered to a high quality and reporting deadlines.
• Support the Management Accountant in production of periodic rolling balance sheet and weekly cash monitor
• Ownership of the Balance Sheet reconciliation process for all divisions, ensuring the BS folder is complete and ready for review.
• Ensure allocated balance sheet reconciliations are completed/reviewed to agreed deadlines with all reconciling items investigated and resolved promptly
• Assist in the preparation of annual budget figures, working alongside SMA and MA to create, review and upload annual budgets
• Ownership of the Inter-company recharge process – ensuring I/co invoices are raised on time.
• Assist the MA and Group Tax Team in the periodic and Quarterly VAT process.
• Process and upload various weekly and periodic journals
• Assist in collation of audit files and audit deliverables for half-year and year-end audit.
• Ensure that the impact of new systems, processes or initiatives are appropriately considered and incorporated into existing reporting and controls environment
• Ensuring that all queries from internal customers are dealt with effectively
• Support the SMA, MA and wider finance team with ad-hoc requests as required

Candidate requirements:

• Actively studying towards ACCA or CIMA
• Good educational background – ideally including degree in finance, accountancy, business, economics or similar.
• Some experience of management accounting and reporting processes
• Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Resilient self-starter with a can do attitude
• Proactive and tenacious with a history of achievement

Please apply via website or contact Georgina at Harvey John Ltd for more information.