Role: Management Accountant
Duration: 3-month Contract
Location: Hybrid / Didcot, Oxfordshire (2 days in Didcot and 3 days WFH)
Rate: £300 - 380 per day (Inside IR35)
Key Skills: Preparing monthly management accounts
The Role:
* Prepare monthly management accounts.
* Manage month-end processes, including journals, balance sheet reconciliations, prepayments, accruals, and bank accounts.
* Conduct detailed analysis of the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet.
* Assist with year-end procedures and audits.
* Prepare core grant claims.
* Oversee cash management and forecasting.
* Handle VAT returns and engage with R&D tax credits and corporation tax matters.
* Develop and implement robust internal controls.
* Actively participate in the finance team, embodying a customer-focused, knowledgeable, collaborative, reliable, and flexible ethos.
* Manage a team of two direct reports.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:
* Likely to be a part-qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA) with relevant management accounting experience.
* A confident and efficient self-starter
* Proficient in Excel, (with a solid understanding of SAP By Design beneficial)
* Skilled in managing a small team.
* A proactive self-learner with a desire to enhance skills and knowledge.
* Meticulous attention to detail while maintaining a strategic perspective.
* A collaborative team player, capable of working effectively with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.
* Experience with government funding models is advantageous but not essential.
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