Management Accountant

Management Accountant - Worcestershire

Our client is a recognised and successful family business who provide top-quality construction tools, site supplies and consumables across the UK. In support of their continued growth and market activity, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Management Accountant who will be the day-to-day head of the finance department. This person will lead a team of five and report directly to the Managing Director.

This is not simply a month-end reporting job. The role is for someone who understands how a stock-intensive distribution business makes money, along with running a disciplined finance function and uses the numbers to help the management and senior leadership team, improve the business.

Based at their offices in Worcester, the Management Accountant will:

-    Own the day-to-day finance function, including sales ledger, purchase ledger, debtor and creditor transactions, cash collection and supplier payments.

-    Produce timely and accurate monthly management accounts, divisional and branch P&Ls and useful management information.

-    Analyse sales, gross margin, EBITDA, costs and variances and explain what is really driving performance.

-    Maintain strong control of debtors, creditors, stock and working capital, including debtor days, creditor days, stock turns and return on working capital.

-    Own rolling cash-flow forecasting and coordinate annual budgets and forecasts.

-    Provide customer, product and divisional profitability analysis and identify margin leakage.

-    Support pricing, purchasing and operational decisions with clear commercial analysis.

-    Improve NetSuite reporting, financial controls, process discipline and data quality.

-    Support acquisitions, integration and other commercial or improvement projects when required.

-    Lead, manage and develop the five-person finance team, setting clear standards and priorities.

Ideally CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified, although consideration would be made for an exceptional qualified-by-experience candidate. Preference is for someone from distribution, merchanting, wholesale, manufacturing or another stock-intensive SME.

-    Proven management accounting and financial control experience.

-    Previous responsibility for managing an accounts or finance team.

-    Strong practical experience of debtors, creditors, cash collection and supplier payment processes.

-    Excellent understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and stock.

-    Commercially strong, curious and willing to challenge when the numbers do not make sense.

-    Strong Excel and data skills and comfortable with ERP systems; NetSuite experience would be particularly valuable.

-    Able to work directly with an entrepreneurial Managing Director and turn financial information into practical actions.

Relocation support is not currently available.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.

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