Management Accountant

Posted 10 September 2024
Salary £42000 - £45000 per annum
LocationPreston
Discipline Qualified Finance
ReferenceKG/3321
Contact NameKathryn Goulding

Job description

Axon Moore are exclusively partnering with a growing business in Preston, to recruit an ambitious nearly or newly qualified Management Accountant. This is a unique opportunity for a forward- thinking individual to join the business at an exciting time, with ownership of their own subsidiary.

The business have seen significant growth in recent years, and have recently listed; therefore the successful candidate will be a personable, dynamic individual who wishes to grow and develop alongside and under the mentorship of a high-calibre Financial Controller.

Responsibilities include:
  • Production of monthly management accounts
  • Monthly balance sheet reconciliations and complex work in progress
  • Multi-site reporting and individual subsidiary performance
  • Identify key variances to budget, re-forecast, and prior year
  • Enhanced focus on improving internal reporting, building MI pack and focussing on potential areas of the business
  • Preparation of year end statutory accounts
  • Completion of VAT returns for group companies prior to submission to HMRC
  • Posting of corrective journals to system and ensuring MI agrees to relevant system on a monthly basis
  • Assisting with the management of a team of four
  • Completion of regular re-forecasting and annual budget submission
  • Understanding of the cash flow, working capital and the ability to identify key movements and improvement opportunities
  • Development and utilisation of BI tool to drive business performance.
  • Supporting with ad hoc project work and future acquisitions
Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Kat Goulding on kgoulding@axonmoore.com or on 07464 598852.