Management Accountant

Management Accountant –work from home (Midlands UK)

Great opportunity for a qualified Management Accountant to work for an expanding Group of IT companies continually making new acquisitions, so there is lots of opportunity for fast progression and for building a team around you.

·        Full time role working from home with some UK travel (5%). The ideal location would be the Midlands as they will be looking after 2 x SME companies (Bromsgrove and Northampton)

·        Flexible working hours

·        Salary - around £35k-£40k pa + Pension/Vitality private healthcare

·        Must have own car and full UK driving licence

·        Reporting to Group Finance Director

Qualifications and experience required

·        Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA, with experience of preparing monthly Management Accounts (all GBP)

·        Must be able to prepare a set of accounts from scratch (Balance sheet and P&L)

·        Experience of dealing with stock, accrual, prepayments, intercompany recharges, accrued and deferred revenue and treatment of associated costs based on contracts and revenue recognition standards

·        Must have supervisory experience of sales ledger/purchase ledger/VAT/payroll knowledge to provide assistance/advice to junior staff

·        Experience of Xero useful but not essential

·        Some experience of system implementation helpful as we will move to Microsoft Dynamics later in the next 6 months

 Person Spec

·        Tenacious and enthusiastic with excellent attention to detail

·        Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised

·        Proactive, looking to improve/streamline/automate processes

·        Able to work to deadlines and prioritise accordingly

·        Team/group focused - to help businesses integrate into the FW Group and share resources and centralise accounting functions where possible

·        Ability to communicate effectively with non-financial co-worker

·        Generally nice hardworking person with a sense of humour

 Responsibilities

·        Preparation of month-end P&L and Balance Sheet for UK-based GBP companies

·        Analysis of actuals against monthly forecast and annual budget with commentary

·        Provide assistance to FD with Group forecast for your company

·        Balance sheet reconciliations and coding checks/amendments

·        Journaling accrued/deferred revenue and matching costs

·        Intercompany reconciliations and recharges

·        Accruals and prepayments

·        Analysis of gross margin - matching sales and variable costs using project codes

·        Commission calculations

·        Sense-checking VAT returns/payroll prepared by Finance Managers

·        Ensure system is set up to minimise coding errors

·        Implement better system for recording stock and purchases (minimal stock held)

·        Provide training to assistants to help with some of the month-end processes

Other information

·        Please apply providing both your CV and a brief cover letter detailing your suitability for the role

·        The Flywheel IT Service Group consists of Electro-Comm Digital, TekNet Solutions Limited, Nexus Associates (ICT) and now Colwyn Technologies with more acquisitions in the pipeline.