Management Accountant

SRM are partnered with a multisite retail business in North Hertfordshire who are seeking a Part Qualified Management Accountant to join their growing finance team.

Reporting to the Finance Business Partner, this role plays a crucial part in providing a high quality, professional and responsive financial analysis, insight and decision-making support service to the Group.

What you will be doing:

• Ensure consistent, precise and timely accounting procedures are adhered to throughout.
• Ensure timely and precise reporting of monthly management accounts.
• Support and assist with annual internal and external auditing.
• Maintain cost centre profit and loss account for operations and support budget owners in review and management of data.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key internal stakeholders
• Variance analysis.
• Balance sheet reconciliations.
• Provide support to Accounts Assistant.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement and contribute towards a culture of continuous improvement.
• Attend and contribute to management/department meetings where required.

Skills/Experience:

• Part Qualified ACCA - must be at least half way through
• Relevant previous experience in a management accounts role
• Possess an excellent working understanding of accounting
• Advanced Excel user
• Capacity to maintain exceptional attention to detail whilst managing high volume data and working to tight deadlines
• Experience of creating accurate and timely reports, with the ability to effectively interrogate and summarise data to produce business insights
• Demonstrable logical and analytical approach, with an excellent level of numeracy
• Confident and influential communicator, with the ability to and build positive relationships at all levels