Assistant Management Accountant - Maternity Cover; The Chesterford Group, Bishops Stortford
Fixed Term Contract
£30,000 - £33,000, depending on experience
The Assistant Management Accountant is responsible for a wide variety of tasks supporting the Accounts department. The role is based at the Head Office in Bishops Stortford and will report to the Finance Manager. The maternity cover will be a fixed term contract of 14 months to ensure a handover pre and post maternity. This role would suit someone who has had experience in assisting with the production on month end reports and is now looking for more responsibility.
Responsibilities:
The role will assist the Finance Manager and the rest of the Finance Team with accounting, reconciliation, administration and reporting and will support the data integrity within our systems.
* Supporting the preparation of Board packs for month end, annual budgeting & quarterly forecasting
* Preparation of balance sheet reconciiations
* Prepare and monitor weekly cash flow forecasts
* Prepayments, accruals and depreciation
* Bank reconciliations
* Monthly inter - company recharges
* Production and issue of weekly flash reports
* Support with marketman - data entry, static data updates
* Assist with invoice processing
* Issuing weekly & monthly reports to the Operations Team
* Answering Operational Manager queries
* Holiday cover for Team Members
* Assisting the Financial Controller & Finance Manager with ad hoc tasks and reports
* Assisting the Financial Controller & Finance Manager with support work around implementing a new accounting system
Skills:
* Detail orientated and accurate
* Good initiative and confident in learning new processes
* Flexible, able to priortise, organised, self motivated
* Good communicator both written and verbal
* Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
* An ability to be discreet, diplomatic, reliable and trustworthy
* Experience of new system implementation desirable
Requirements:
* Part Qualified CIMA/ACCA
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Minimum of 5 GCSE's ( including Maths and English A-C grade ), A Levels and / or Degree desirable
* Proficient in Microsoft Office Word / Excel / Outlook
* Good telephone manner for handling queries over the phone
* Experience of working in an accounts team desirable, preferably in a retail / hospitality environment