Job Purpose:
Following a re-structure, our client are seeking an enthusiastic Management Accountant/ Finance Manager. This role will provide the sales team with finance support, with debt chasing one of the most important skills required. We are therefore looking for a team player who is willing to both take initiative and work independently, as well as collaboratively with the sales team.
We are looking for someone who has excellent organisational skills and a personable disposition. The ideal candidate will have a natural flexibility in handling day-to-day routines as well as surprises. They should be prepared to roll up their sleeves and help with certain ad-hoc tasks that may arise unexpectedly and/ or suddenly, as you’d typically expect in a small business/ start-up environment.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Assisting in preparation of management accounts packs, balance sheet reconciliations, and journal posting i.e. accruals and prepayments.
- Creating and posting sales invoices, and reconciliation of billings and commissions.
- Posting purchase invoices and reconciling against purchase order accrual schedules in place.
- Credit Control, i.e. monitoring AR ledger and debt chasing.
- Accounts Payable, i.e. ensuring supplier payments are made promptly when we have received the funds, within terms, and maintaining a good supplier relationship.
- Assisting with reconciling expenses using our managed expenses app.
- Quarterly VAT reconciliation and VAT submissions.
- Weekly sales report from CRM to MD to track KPIs for the wider sales team.
- Assisting with yearly audits, i.e. audit testing etc.
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Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Part qualified accountant or qualified by experience with at least 3 years’ experience in a similar role.
- Sage line 50, or similar software, experience.
- Strong Credit Control and Accounts Payable experience.
- Experience with foreign currency desirable, and ability to work with multiple bank ledgers.
- Balance sheet reconciliation experience.
- Excellent time-management and people skills, high degree of flexibility and superb
multitasking ability.
- Ability to work independently and take initiative.
- Proficiency with office applications; good Word and Excel ability (pivots and VLOOKUP
desirable), all round good IT skills, aptitude for learning new software and systems.
- Strong numeracy, organisation, planning and communication skills.
- Experience working in a small business/ start-up environment in media is desirable.
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