Company Description
As a Management Accountant, your role will be based from our Bury St Edmunds offices on an agile working basis (50%). You will perform month-end accounting processes, prepare balance sheet reconciliations, and be responsible for delivering high-quality outputs while managing and interacting with various stakeholders across the business.
Join us at Greene King, the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.
Job Description
This Advert will close on 6th January 2024
Your role as a Management Accountant...
1. Perform month-end accounting processes, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and completeness of financial information.
2. Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring that all balances are supported, highlighting any risks or opportunities, and actioning all differences in the control accounts promptly.
3. Responsible for the delivery of high-quality reports, information, and commentary to provide insights enabling the business to make effective strategic and operational decisions.
4. Ensure that all processes and procedures are implemented in accordance with GAAP principles and comprehensively documented to establish a robust controls environment.
5. Support the internal and external audit processes.
6. Maintain a detailed knowledge of source data and the structure and use of financial information from core systems that feed into the financial statements.
7. Understand the impact of operational changes on procedures and core business systems to ensure correct accounting treatment and up-to-date posting books.
8. Provide support to the Senior R2R Manager and COE Financial Controller on ad-hoc reporting and analysis.
What you’ll bring…
1. An inquisitive and curious nature that wants to learn and understand.
2. Ambitious proactive approach with a passion to develop personally and support company growth.
3. Professional demeanor and excellent attention to detail.
4. An effective communicator able to build strong and collaborative working relationships.
5. Flexible working ethos to meet the demands of the job and adaptable to business change.
6. Able to make informed suggestions for improvements to processes and systems.
7. Problem-solving skills, including taking ownership of problems through to resolution.
8. Highly motivated - able to work using own initiative or as part of a team.
9. Excellent planning and organizational skills to prioritize work and meet deadlines.
10. An excellent approach to customer service with the ability to manage expectations and conflicting priorities of key stakeholders.
11. Strong customer service ethos.
Qualifications
1. Qualified with a professional accounting qualification such as CIMA, ACCA, or ACA is preferable. QBE will be considered.
2. Experienced with finance and ERP software together with a strong knowledge of reporting tools such as Excel and PowerPoint (Power BI would be an advantage but not essential).
3. Experience with Cognos tools beneficial but not essential.
4. Large company experience is essential.
5. Knowledge of the retail and hospitality industry is an advantage.
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