Assistant Management Accountant

Fed Finance is a dedicated recruitment firm which specialises in Accounting & Corporate Finance roles.
My name is Baptiste YLONEN and my client, a Retail firm, is looking for an Assistant Management Accountant, for a permanent role.

Month end :
- Prepare and post period end journal entries ensuring accurate recording of all costs in a timely manner
- Complete robust balance sheet reconciliations to agreed deadlines with all reconciling items investigated and resolved promptly
- Investigating and prepare narrative explaining variances to budget and prior year for key expense categories
- Supporting the Finance Manager with the preparation of reporting to communicate performance to the management team.

Business Partnering
- Production of a weekly suite of reporting to provide accurate information and enable timely decision making
- Review and accurately code supplier costs and metrics on a weekly basis to provide the basis for weekly and periodic reporting
- Identify drivers of overspend, prepare ad hoc analysis and develop recommendations to reduce finance risk
- Develop and mature stakeholder relationships across the team and with central department heads
- Support the budgeting and forecast process.

Compliance and Controls
- Significant involvement in the year-end process, preparation of deliverables for the audit and key contact for the auditors during the audit process
- Support the development of a robust control environment by continuously identifying opportunities to improve financial systems and processes and by implementing these changes

- Studying for a recognised accountancy qualification (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
- Minimum 2 years experience working within a Finance team in a high-volume environment
- Retail industry experience expected
- Excellent numeracy and IT skills including advanced Excel with a strong attention to detail.
- Comfortable working with high volumes of data to identify trends or errors.