Management Accountant

Management Accountant
Leicester
Full Time / Permanent
£45,000 - £50,000

SF Recruitment are working with an instantly recognisable business who are looking for a Management Accountant to join their team on a full time, permanent basis. As the Management Accountant you will be responsible for analysing and presenting key financial & operational data, in an accurate and timely manner, to assist senior management in making critical business decisions in order to ensure business growth and long-term success. As the Management Accountant you will report directly to the Head Of Finance. The ideal Management Accountant will be a qualified accountant & ideally have experience within FMCG/Manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities of the Management Accountant:
- Business partnering with the operations team to obtain operational awareness and to influence business decisions.
- Analysing operational performance, identifying areas for improvement
- Responsible for reporting the weekly results including commentary to the senior leadership team in a timely manner.
- Meetings with the Finance Director, Head of Finance and Finance Manager to discuss weekly results and any operational concerns.
- Presenting the weekly results to the senior management team.
- Reconciling material costs at month end, identifying and reporting on key variances in detail.
- Establishing operational standards using both historic actual data and time and motion study.
- Supporting the Finance Manager with the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
- Adhoc tasks required buy the business.

The Ideal Management Accountant will be:
- ACCA/CIMA Qualified
- Experience within Manufacturing / FMCG
- Competent in producing accurate financial reports whilst meeting strict deadlines.
- Highly numerate, with excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills, demonstrating ability to communicate in a professional and effective manner at all levels.
- Ability to manage, maintain and build effective business partner/stakeholder relationships.
- ERP systems knowledge and advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, SUMIF, INDEX/MATCH, VBA / Macro functions).