Reporting to the Financial Controller, this is a newly created role. This is not a pure month end role, we are seeking someone who has a strong commercial skill set, who has great analytical capability and can support the FC and CFO with the budgeting, forecasting and the financial modelling processes.
Your key responsibilities include:
* Preparing accurate and timely monthly management accounts, including P&L analysis, accruals, prepayments and relevant balance sheet reconciliations.
* Producing and developing reporting across all sales channels and other areas of the business.
* Analysing actual performance against budget, forecast and prior periods, identifying and explaining key variances.
* Providing meaningful commercial insight rather than simply reporting the numbers.
* Supporting the annual budgeting and regular reforecasting processes.
* Developing detailed P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts alongside the FC and CFO.
* Supporting scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to help management understand the financial impact of different trading and operational assumptions.
* Working with operational managers to understand performance and challenge assumptions where appropriate.
* Analysing sales, margins, costs and profitability across all channels and business activities.
* Supporting the month-end close and ensuring reporting deadlines are consistently achieved.
* Working closely with the Financial Accountant to ensure management reporting is supported by robust underlying financial information.
* Working with the Transactional Finance Manager where issues within the ledgers affect management reporting or month-end.
* Working closely with the Systems/Data team to improve the quality, consistency and automation of financial and management information, including reconciliation between a bespoke operational system and Sage 200.
* Helping develop more efficient and scalable reporting processes and reduce reliance on manual spreadsheet-based reporting.
* Supporting the year-end and audit requirements where required.
* Assisting with ad-hoc commercial analysis and projects for the CFO and FC.
* Providing direction, supporting the development to the Assistant Accountants, delegating appropriate month-end and management accounting activities and reviewing their work.
* Ensuring work is appropriately distributed across the team so you can focus on higher-value analysis, forecasting and business partnering rather than undertaking all the detailed preparation work personally.
This is an exciting time to join the business as it navigates a period of growth and change and will allow you to be involved in reshaping the finance function moving forwards.
You must be able to demonstrate the following skills and experiences:
* Strong management accounting experience in a reasonably complex business.
* ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, part-qualified or equivalent experience.
* Strong month-end and management accounts experience.
* Practical budgeting and forecasting experience.
* Strong Excel and financial modelling skills.
* Ability to analyse financial information and explain the commercial story behind the numbers.
* Confidence working with non-finance stakeholders and challenging assumptions.
* Good understanding of P&L, Balance Sheet and cash-flow relationships.
* Strong systems aptitude and an interest in improving/automating reporting.
* Ability to work independently, prioritise effectively and take ownership of deadlines.
* Multi-site or high-volume commercial experience would be advantageous.
* Sage 200 experience would be useful but isn't essential.
Salary c£45,000 - £55,000 plus benefits depending on skills and experiences
Salary description
£45000.00 - £55000.00 per year