Management Accountant

Investigo are delighted to be supporting a large Milton Keynes based Financial Services business with their recruitment of a Management Accountant, on a permanent basis.

The Management Accountant will be responsible for supporting senior management and driving performance in the business through the production and interpretation of high-quality management accounts.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Monthly Management Accounts
• Deliver high quality management accounts and commentary for our Alternative Channel businesses
• Preparation/review of month-end journals e.g. accruals/prepayments, commissions, provisions etc.
• Review bank reconciliations throughout the month ensuring all queries are resolved for month end.
• Ownership of balance sheet reconciliations including follow up of open items to ensure correctly dealt with on a timely basis.
• Review of Aged Debtors report including follow up of unpaid items and un-allocated cash with business support teams.
• Preparation of quarterly VAT returns.
• Management of year end audit process ensuring key deliverables are available on time and liaising with the external audit team with query resolution.
• Run and maintain models to assess suitability of provisions held for clawback of
  insurance income.
• Prepare the monthly Board pack.
• Prepare quarterly returns to assists with regulatory reporting.
• Review and approval of weekly supplier payments and employee expense runs.
• Review and approval of monthly payroll.
• Approve ad-hoc payments via online banking and send payment files to bacs.
• Providing financial support by working closely with colleagues at to ensure the P&Ls and associated KPIs are accurate and are used by the teams as a management tool.
• Work with stakeholders to suggest and follow up on revenue generating and cost saving ideas in line with key strategies for the business unit.
• Opportunity to manage the Assistant Management Accountant.
• Identifying best practice and ensuring consistent processes are in place and are streamlined.
• Share observations with the team to ensure we continue to uphold a robust controls environment.

The successful Candidate will be a Professionally Qualified individual with 0-3 years PQE, and a strong management accounting background. They will possess excellent analytical ability and excel modelling skills.

Our Client is offering a salary of £45,000 - £55,000 + Benefits.