Job description
Whats in for you?
- Working within a small friendly team who pride themselves on being helpful and supportive
- Working 2 days in the office, 3 days from home
- Cash allowance to spend on what suits you - gym membership etc
- Generous employer pension - 9%
- Annual Bonus - up to 10%
- Discounted Gym membership
- 25 days holiday + Bank holidays
- Hours 9-5.30 but there is some Flex
Experience sought
- Minimum of 3 years experience with a SME in a similar role (£10m+ turnover, £2.5m ledger value)
- Adept at working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with high volumes of data
- Some experience of working in a professional services company (consultancy, lawyers, accountants)
- Experience within planning/property sector preferable but not essential
Role overview
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Preparation of management accounts
- Assist in the monthly preparation of individual team income statements and company income statement and balance sheet within tight reporting deadlines
- Prepare and process monthly accrual and prepayment journals
- Maintain the fixed asset register, calculate and post monthly depreciation journals
- Prepare and post other month end journals - service charge, headcount, payroll
- Assist in the preparation of the monthly management accounts pack, including supplementary schedules
- Identify problem areas through variance analysis and present recommendations
- Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including staff loans, accruals, prepayments
- Communicate and interpret financial data to non-financial managers
Other aspects of financial operations
- Prepare monthly timesheet and billing reports from timesheet data
- Update revenue forecast sheets monthly in advance of forecast meetings, including in-month variance analysis
- Respond to queries coming to the finance team from both internal and external stakeholders in a timely fashion
- Day-to-day management of "Housekeeping" mailbox - received various ad-hoc requests relating to upwards of 1000 projects
- Prepare monthly payment runs
Statutory compliance
- Prepare and submit quarterly VAT returns
- Support the annual statutory audit
- Assist in the preparation of yearly P11d and PSA submissions
Qualifications and Skills Requirement:
Technical skills
- Proficiency with accounting software programs, preferably Sage 50 accounts
- Proficiency with Excel (Intermediate - pivots / lookups / if statements)
- Knowledge of financial tools
- Part qualified ACCA / CIMA / ACA or Qualified by experience
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