Group Management Accountant

 With offices in the UK, USA and South Africa, we are a growing Travel Management Company specialising in the charity, academic and not-for-profit sectors, and we are proud and passionate about what we do.

We are currently looking for a Group Management Accountant to join the Finance Department in Manchester. This role has a broad scope working closely with not only the Finance Team, but across other functions in providing support and driving necessary change to ensure reporting is delivered right first time. The primary responsibilities of this role include:

• Daily Gross Margin Reporting, providing an analytical overview where margin deviates from forecast /target

• Review the overheads on a monthly basis, ensuring costs are captured, variances to budget understood, and reports distributed to budget-holders for review

• Prepare the Group Management Accounts at month-end, ensuring close is delivered in a timely manner

• Reconcile the monthly payroll charges, ensuring journals are processed correctly, balance sheet control accounts reconciled, and analysis for the monthly pack completed

• Deliver reporting where required for the various month-end packs

• Drive balance sheet reconciliations to be completed on a monthly basis across all companies•

• Support the Financial Controller and Finance Director in delivering a clean year-end audit (Financial and ATOL)

• Ad-hoc reporting and analysis as and when required by the business

• Oversee the management of Assistant Management Accountants

Daily Gross Margin Reporting, providing an analytical overview where margin deviates from forecast /target

Review the overheads on a monthly basis, ensuring costs are captured, variances to budget understood, and reports distributed to budget-holders for review

Prepare the Group Management Accounts at month-end, ensuring close is delivered in a timely manner

Reconcile the monthly payroll charges, ensuring journals are processed correctly, balance sheet control accounts reconciled, and analysis for the monthly pack completed

Deliver reporting where required for the various month-end packs

Drive balance sheet reconciliations to be completed on a monthly basis across all companies•

Support the Financial Controller and Finance Director in delivering a clean year-end audit (Financial and ATOL)

Ad-hoc reporting and analysis as and when required by the business

Oversee the management of Assistant Management Accountants