Crowley Cox Financial Recruitment

Assistant Management Accountant

Salary: £40,000 to £43,000

South West London

A leading international company are recruiting a part qualified or qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) assistant management accountant to join the finance team on a permanent basis.

Working in amazing modern offices in Southwest London with lovely social open plan facilities, close to an amazing high street, close to local tubes, trains and bus routes. The high street features a variety of boutique shops, restaurants, bars and trendy cafes catering to all your lunch and after-work drinks requirements. Apply today to join this amazing company!

The organisation is experiencing high growth, they have recently acquired smaller organisations and this exciting opportunity is due to their expansion. This fast growth will offer you the opportunity to progress quickly in your career developing your skills, experience, and future earning ability.

This is a fantastic opportunity reporting to the head of finance you will have key commercial responsibilities within the business including assisting with preparation of budgets, forecasting and financial analysis.

Exposure to project accounting, revenue recognition experience, or work-in-progress (WIP) reporting would benefit this role.

This is an exciting immediate start opportunity (however they can accommodate a month's notice period). The interview process is a two-stage process, initially a Teams meeting followed by a face-to-face interview in the office.

Responsibilities of the Assistant Management Accountant:

• Assist with preparing accurate monthly management accounts for the Senior Leadership Team
• Completion of key monthly balance sheet reconciliations across all entities.
• Assist with preparing monthly journals for WIP, accruals, prepayments, and deferred income.
• Assist with managing the Fixed Asset Register additions, Disposal and monthly depreciations.
• Preparing VAT quarterly returns, and Irish bimonthly returns for review and submission.
• Assist in the annual forecast and budget-setting process.
• Assisting with the external audit process, working with the Financial Controller to provide our auditors with the information required.
• Monthly Overhead, IT, Marketing and other various actual to budget variance analysis.
• Processing of all overhead invoices ensuring matched Purchase Orders and according to budget, ensuring all are approved in a timely manner for payment.
• Assist with credit control and weekly sales ledger duties.
• Month-end and year-end reporting.
• Assist and support all imports and exports from the CRM system to the Finance System, being part of month-end reconciliation.

Skills and experience of the Assistant Management Accountant:

• Part or fully qualified ACCA / CIMA /ACA.
• Previous experience working with Sage 200.
• Project accounting experience would be advantageous.
• Experience in Revenue Recognition, and good to have Work in Progress reporting.
• Experience in assisting in the production of Management Accounts.
• Microsoft Excel skills - Minimum pivot table and Vlookups.
• Confident verbal and written communication skills.
• Good teamwork skills and a positive, pro-active attitude.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload with established timescale.

Benefits Package:

• Annual Bonus - Up to 5% based on the company achieving its financial targets.
• Holiday - 23 days + 3 at Christmas (increasing with length of service).
• Pension - starting at 5% employee, 3% employer, increasing with length of service.
• PMI - option to opt in to company-funded Private Medical Insurance (P11D benefit).
• BUPA EAP and Cash Plan.

This job may also be known as an assistant accountant or part-qualified accountant.