Assistant Management Accountant

Accountable Recruitment are delighted to be partnering with a large specialist organisation who are looking to recruit an Assistant Management Accountant to join their growing finance team.

Based in Preston, you will work a hybrid model.

This opportunity is ideal for somebody who is currently operating in an Assistant Management Accountant capacity and wants to join a large multi-faceted organisation with opportunities for future progression.

Salary/benefits:

• £26-35,000pa
• Hybrid Working
• Study Support

Job Duties:

• Producing and developing management reporting, understanding trends and providing meaningful information to enable management action to be taken to address areas requiring improvement.
• Providing assistance and support to commercial management through expert data organisation skills utilising pivot tables, lookup formulas, sumifs formulas, data sort and file links.
• Building effective relationships with functional areas and site- based teams to provide a reliable point of contact for all aspects of data integrity and financial reporting.
• Assisting with the production of the monthly management accounts.
• Assisting with the production of the monthly site profit and loss accounts by ensuring the robustness of cost allocations.
• Preparing and posting month end journals including WIP,
• Revenue, provisions, accruals and prepayments.
• Ensuring contract cost are controlled with robust procedures in place.
• Pro-actively addressing issues and anomalies with finance,commercial and operations colleagues, explaining financial terminology to those with non-finance backgrounds.
• Ensuring balance sheet reconciliations are completed and key variances are understood and resolved, including appropriate audit trail and support

Ideal experience

• Experience in a similar role with managing accounts
• A degree in either Maths or Finance is desirable or working towards finance qualifications
• Excellent IT Skills including SAP and Excel
• Ability to work towards strict deadlines
• Ability to work comfortably with numbers, with commercial awareness
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• High level of attention to detail