Management Accountant in Cheshire, Chester

gap Personnel are looking to recruit a Management Accountant to join our entrepreneurial Group.

Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the successful candidate will be a key member of the Central Finance Team.

Ideal applicants will have a proven record across a broad range of accounting skills, demonstrate adaptability, and thrive in a busy team environment, whilst being confident in their ability to support the group’s ambitious growth and profitability objectives.

The role will be varied and challenging, and will include the following key responsibilities: Monthly MI/reporting – Using our Sage X3 and Mercur reporting systems, produce monthly management information (MI), including profit and loss (P&L) statements for all sites, balance sheets, and cash flow reports.

Liaise with Directors, the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), and the Senior Management Team (SMT) to resolve any queries.

Conduct cost reviews and overhead tracking, identifying potential cost savings and operational efficiencies.

Manage the Invoice Discounting (ID) facility, including daybook uploads, drawdowns, and reconciliations.

Carry out transactional finance duties, including (but not limited to) posting and reconciling weekly sales and cost of sales (COS), fixed assets, bank postings and reconciliations, accruals and prepayments, and assisting with accounts payable (AP), supplier payments, and supplier queries.

Prepare and submit VAT returns and payments, including completing monthly VAT reconciliations.

Support external audits and inspections as required, including the annual statutory year-end audit.

Any other tasks as and when required This role will offer a great deal of autonomy, as well as many opportunities for personal and professional growth.

The Management Accountant is an important Business Partner both to other Head Office support functions (including Credit Control and HR Payroll) and also to our Sales and Operational teams.

This position has extensive commercial involvement and autonomous control over publication and analysis of weekly and monthly MI reporting.

The successful candidate would ideally hold the following experience: CCAB qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) accountant or in final stages of qualification Proven technical accounting knowledge Advanced MS excel skills including e. g. vlookup and pivot tables Financially astute, articulate and technically diligent with the ability to communicate with financial and non financial peers Confident with proven experience dealing with HMRC and other third parties Proven ability to work effectively as a team player Proven ability to act decisively under pressure Previous experience working as a Management Accountant with Month end Management Accounts responsibilities Energetic, highly motivated and with an enquiring mind Passionate about personal and business growth and success Our business is heavily focussed on employee engagement with strong core values based around our i-CARE philosophy: Innovation – consistently looking to improve all aspects of our business and interactions.

Consultative – ensuring we seek to find mutually agreeable solutions with all stakeholders.

Accountable – promoting ownership, and an environment where we accept mistakes happen, but key learnings are taken from these to ensure continuous improvement.

Real – straight talking honest discussions are central to both our internal and external communication.

Ethical – ensuring we comply with all regulatory bodies in all of our process and procedures, and an unwavering commitment to act with empathy in our decisions and at all levels of the business. gap personnel – key facts gap personnel is one of the UK’s largest recruitment businesses, founded in 1997, it now have an annual turnover of £200m.

Our core sectors are industrial blue collar, technical and professional mid-management appointments.

The business is seeking to continue to grow in a sustainable and profitable manner, with an ambitious M&A strategy coupled with further investment planned across new sectors in addition to organic growth.