Assistant Management Accountant
London
£37,000 per annum
We are seeking an Assistant Management Accountant to aid the Management Accountant in both internal and external reporting, including liaising with the AP team to ensure costs are reflected accurately in the ledgers. In addition, the post holder will be expected to be significantly involved in tasks relating to International Compliance deadlines, for example, VAT returns, statutory account filings, external audits, and corporation tax filings.
What you’ll be doing as our Assistant Management Accountant:
An overview of each of the main duties is given below. This is not an exhaustive list and there may be additional ad hoc needs of the department that may need support on, above their daily tasks.
Internal reporting
Cash reporting
- Providing daily cash reporting to key internal stakeholders
Management Accounts
- Rolling forward key month end schedules (contract files, services files, auto packs, short term cash flows)
- Preparing bank recs
- Generating monthly journals for accruals, prepayments, eliminations and reclassifications
- Ensuring all invoices are processed in a timely manner ahead of the month end cycle
- Raising PO’s for Finance department overhead costs
- Setting up new suppliers for Finance department overhead costs and liaising with Procurement to ensure these are approved
- Liaising with AP to ensure urgent payments are made; that old payable balances are cleared, and to help resolve any payment issues affecting ledgers.
- Reviewing the AP/AR ledgers for old or unallocated balances
- Assisting with the production of intercompany reconciliations, ensuring balances agree with other group companies.
- Raising intercompany invoices. Liaising with the UK / International on intercompany invoices being raised correctly and in a timely manner.
- Reviewing GRNI accruals at month end and resolving issues.
- Supporting on balance sheet reconciliations and analysis such as reconciling the accrued expenses.
External reporting
- Assisting with interim and annual audits, preparing breakdowns, analysis and collating backup
Compliance
- Liaising with tax teams on the monthly VAT returns, answering queries and collating data where applicable.
- Assisting the Finance Manager with ensuring the correct tax rates are reflected in NetSuite and on Sales Orders where applicable
- Supporting on providing TBs to tax teams and third party advisors for the preparation of statutory accounts and tax filings
ERP System/Ad Hoc tasks
- Supporting on UAT testing of the ERP system for changes that may be required to the system for additional reports.
What we’re looking for in our Assistant Management Accountant:
- Previous work experience in transactional finance and a good working knowledge of finance processes.
- Working towards a financial qualification.
- Proficient in Excel.
- Experience working with ERP systems.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
