Management Accountant

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Preparation of monthly Management accounts for business units and group consolidated accounts, including detailed analysis.
• Partnering with key personnel to understand primary cost & revenue drivers and variances.
• Daily liaison with operational and commercial management to understand costs and to provide both challenge and support of financial forecasts & budgets.
• Completion of ongoing financial reviews with division heads outlining and highlighting budget differences and variances.
• Monitor and report on planned product profitability against actual profitability, by channel, customer, and promotion.
• Month end journals and calculations for accruals, prepayments and various provisions.
• Improve stock performance with timely analysis including stock turnover, profitability, sale or return rates, damages, and obsolescence.
• Analyse costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results, and the Group’s actual performance compared to the business plans.
• Analysis of production work in progress ensuring that jobs are completed in line with production budgets and providing variance analysis.
• Preparation of monthly and quarterly financial information for management and board pack for group board meetings.
• Prepare month end KPI reviews.
• VAT Return completion with full reconciliation.
• Completion of forecasting and annual budgeting.
• Oversee annual audit and liaise with group’s auditors.
• Control of group banking and financing activities, including overseeing group invoice discounting facilities and delivering weekly short/medium term cash forecasts.
• Ad hoc duties as required.