Assistant Management Accountant

Assistant Management Accountant
Purple Rocket Recruitment is recruiting for an Assistant Management Accountant for a Construction Company based in Leicester. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to join a family feel business with opportunities to progress. As an Assistant Management Accountant you will support the Group Financial Controller and finance team in planning, controlling, and analysing financial information to help management make informed decisions.
Main duties/responsibilities as a Assistant Management Accountant:
* Prepares monthly management information for review of senior management
* Assigns cash to invoices
* Bank re-conciliations and general ledger postings such as Accruals, prepayments and other journals
* Assigns invoices to sales orders/certificates
* Sets-up, verifies and generates payment of subcontractors
* Processes monthly cost transfers and accrual entries
* Provides internal audits information
* VAT returns
* Assisting with cash flow forecasting
* Assisting with budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
* Sales and stock reporting
* Credit Control
* Reconciles balance sheet accounts and prepare/maintain supporting documents
* Acts in accordance with the company values and as a role model for other company staff
* Project work where tasks are assigned as per planners and assisting with commercial reporting
* Willing to work from different locations as and when required ie retail location
* Ad Hoc Duties as assigned by Senior Management
Qualifications, Experience, Capabilities as a Assistant Management Accountant:
Qualifications:
* Part Qualified member of an accountancy body or holder of an equivalent qualification: AAT/CIMA/ACA/ACCA/QBE
Experience:
* Accounts experience essential
Capabilities:
* Technical Expertise & Knowledge:
* Strong IT skills, including Excel, Exchequer or similar systems
* Financial & Business Acumen: Applies an understanding of business economics, markets and the wider economic and political environment to ensure people strategies and processes promote the company’s financial success and credibility
* Achievement Focus: Demonstrating drive and enthusiasm to ensure a focus of self and the team on achieving results; High integrity and openness combined with commitment to good governance. Energetic, highly motivated, with an enquiring mind and passion for excellence and innovation in pursuit of business growth and success.
* Client Focus: Acting consistently with the client in mind to ensure long-term, profitable relationships and expansion of business. It involves understanding and delivering what adds value to the client, building mutually respectful partnerships and delivering service to exceed expectations.
* Taking Responsibility: Accepting the importance of standards that the business establishes for individual behaviour and acting to live by those standards; being responsible, accountable within your role.
* Interpersonal and Team Skills: Building positive and effective interpersonal relationships between individuals, teams, business areas and across geographic boundaries. This involves teamwork, building consensus and unity, collaboration, empathy, appreciation of diversity and showing respect for others.
Working conditions
* Mainly office-based with some travel to meet with remote teams