This is an exciting opportunity for a fully qualified and experienced Management Accountant to join WJ, the UK’s market leading Roadmarking and Highways safety business based in Newcastle-under-Lyme. You will be responsible for leading the finance team, providing financial analysis, improved financial controls and providing strategic insights to senior management to achieve businesses financial and strategic objectives.
Job Description
Your role will include:
* Ensuring the preparation of timely and robust monthly and annual financial reports and accounts.
* Analysis of financial data and KPI’s to identify trends, risks and opportunities, providing actionable insights to drive business performance.
* Lead the annual budget process and monthly and quarterly forecast processes.
* Monitor performance against budgets and forecasts and provide regular updates to management on variances, deviations and areas for margin improvement and incremental cashflow generation.
* Conduct analysis for proposed projects or investments, identifying opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
* CapEx investment appraisals.
* Ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements as well as collaborating with external auditors during financial audits
* Reviewing and Preparing key balance sheet account reconciliations along with stock valuations.
* People Management responsibilities including performance management to ensure the smooth efficient running of the Finance Team.
Qualifications
What you will bring to the team:
* Recognised accountancy qualification such as CIMA, ACA or ACCA or equivalent
* Demonstrable experience in a Management Accountant role in a business with c £50m Turnover ideally in a services and/or rentals business.
* Advanced Excel user and other MS Office systems.
* Familiarity with using reporting tools such as Business Report Writer and Power BI (preferred but not essential). ERP accounting software and multi-site ERP systems for business and stock systems.
* Strong analytical skills to be able to interpret and synthesise financial data.
* Organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads to meet deadlines in a fast-paced and changing environment.
* The ability to solve problems based on by taking into consideration facts and logic
* You will be solution driven with a "can-do" attitude.
Additional Information
What's in it for you?
If you want to be part of our growing business and work with a team that supports you and enables you to drive your ideas forward, we will reward you with a competitive package including:
* 25 Days annual leave plus Bank holidays
* Private Medical Insurance
* Company Pension Scheme
* Life Assurance
* Free, on-site parking
Become part of a company that has led the road marking industry from our inception. Shape the future with WJ. Apply now!
WJ are a Disability Committed employer - If you need any reasonable adjustments during the application / recruitment process, please reach out to us directly at careers@wj.uk
WJ is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.