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Management Accountant

Employer
Michael Page Finance
Location
Wales, Cardiff
Salary
£30000 - £40000 per annum + Additional benefits
Closing date
Sep 9, 2019

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Job Role
Financial Accountant
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

A diverse Management Accountancy role within a large business services company based near Cardiff. Managing finances and providing support to the business.

Client Details

A large business services company based near Cardiff, with a European scope and amazing career opportunities.

Description

Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Supporting locally based finance staff
  • Preparing management accounts, which will involve sight visits
  • Reviewing controls and processes in order to make improvements where necessary
  • Providing commercial support to the senior managers of certain Group businesses
  • Preparing cash flow forecasts
  • Liaising with auditors for the annual audit
  • Ensuring that supplier and HMRC payments are made on time
  • Developing financial reports as required
  • Assisting with budget preparation

Additional Responsibilities will include:

  • Ensuring there are proper financial controls operating at each sight
  • Making regular review visits to subsidiaries
  • Carrying out audit reviews of subsidiary businesses to ensure that they are ad-hearing to group procedures
  • Ensuring all customers dealt with outside of the Caerphilly Administration department are being invoiced properly and accurately
  • Checking that robust credit control procedures are in place and minimising debt levels
  • Managing post acquisition/divestment of business
  • Carrying out due diligence and data analysis work
  • Assisting with Group and subsidiary reporting obligations including financial statements and tax returns

Profile

Successful candidates will display the following characteristics:

Business Focus:

  • Has ability to work in a consultative role, advising on improvements and best practice
  • Demonstrates commercial awareness and understanding, without compromising financial disciplines
  • Ensures that business opportunities are appropriately evaluated to minimise risk and sustain/improve and streamline processes

Communications:

  • Provides inclusive and user-friendly management information, meaningful financial analysis, input and advice to divisional colleagues and senior management to assist with understanding KPI reporting
  • Communicates positively
  • Provides accurate and timely reporting, establishing effective communications with other senior financial colleagues within the Group
  • Displays well developed presentation and communication skills, verbally as well as numerically, with good report writing skills
  • Open and Honest

Technical and Financial Competencies:

  • Holder of recognised accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, ACMA) unless exceptional reasons apply
  • Has excellent MS office skills, particularly Excel and Word
  • Experience of Sage accounting systems
  • Broad financial management background in a business-to-business (or similar) service organisation
  • Experience or knowledge of carrying out both external and internal audit work
  • Experience of preparing management accounts

Personal Characteristics:

  • Willing to travel within the UK, Ireland and Spain
  • Prioritises successfully in order to identify and meet key issues and challenges
  • Self starter who is able to manage own workload
  • Able to work in a deadline driven structured and methodical manner
  • Displays ability to challenge
  • Positive mentalist
  • Displays completer/finisher mentality
  • Demonstrates excellent attention to detail whilst retaining ability to see wider business picture
  • Remains calm and focused under pressure
  • Displays honest, openness and integrity to staff and colleagues
  • Gives others credit where due and readily critiques own results and behaviour
  • Demonstrates receptiveness to new ideas whatever the source

Job Offer

Competitive basic salary - 30 - 40k p/a

Car allowance

Salary sacrifice pension

20 days per annum holiday plus statutory days and Christmas shut down (3-4 days)

36.25 hours a week

Childcare voucher scheme

Employee discount offers

Free health and well-being support

Free on-site canteen

Free on-site parking

Company

Michael Page specialises in the permanent, temporary and interim recruitment of qualified accountants. In fact, our organisation was founded to provide selection and recruitment services for accounting professionals and has been a market leader in this field for more than 35 years.

We have earned the trust of clients in industry and commerce, the banking and financial services markets and the public and not-for-profit sector. We also have an exemplary track record of completing assignments for everyone from small, boutique practices to the Big Four firms.

Many of our consultants have a background in accounting and finance – that’s real, grass roots expertise at your disposal. Combine that with the global reach you get from a company that has over 155 offices in 36 countries and you’re looking at a pretty formidable package. We are confident no other consultancy is better qualified to help you make that crucial, next step in your career.

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