Management Accountant - 12 month FTC

We are seeking a Management Accountant for one of our Manufacturing based clients in Plymouth. As a key member of the finance team, the successful candidate will be involved in preparing, scrutinising, managing and analysing the financial data that helps the business to make sound financial decisions. Your role incorporates recurring & ad-hoc tasks to maintain the financial records of the company, as well as ensuring compliance with all relevant financial governance and regulations, as well as internal policies and processes.
The position to cover a period of maternity leave and is for a 12-month fixed term. You will be one of two management accountants within our small Finance Team, and we plan to provide development opportunities for both during this 12-month period.
Whilst there are regular, routine tasks and processes to complete, the nature of our business is such that for the right person there may be opportunities to be involved in projects that expand the scope of your role, your understanding of the manufacturing and supply chain processes, and encourage your further development.
To succeed in this role you will need a positive, flexible, continuous improvement mindset and a can-do, hands-on approach. Our core values of respect, commitment and empowerment inform the way that we treat each other at work and the way that we do business.
On satisfactory completion of a probationary period, we offer hybrid working-from-home for one day per week and a degree of flexibility with core hours working.
Key Responsibilities:
* Produce financial data and analysis to support the Financial Controller and the business in making fact-based business decisions i.e. weekly flash report.
* Maintenance of daily and monthly data reporting (daily sales reports, monthly spend reports).
* Contribution towards month-end processing and management reporting, including balance sheet reconciliations.
* Ensuring sales-credit risk management, through credit insurance management and open order book monitoring. Management of the sales ledger, including posting daily sales receipts, raising credit notes and assisting with customer enquiries.
* Management of fixed assets – raising of fixed assets upon approval, ensuring capex spend is within budget, processing monthly depreciation. Budgeting/forecasting of depreciation costs.
* Involvement in budgeting and forecasting processes.
* Review and assist with standard costing, including new part costing and standard cost roll ups.
* Review and refine finance procedures to make improvements, including the use of SAP.
* Support the audit of the statutory accounts for the Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
* Lead contact for audit of the Financial Statutory Accounts.
* Contribute to the maintenance of financial systems and data reporting.
* Other ad hoc duties or cover as required.
* Involvement in compliance processes: HMRC Returns, National Statistics Returns & Payment Performance Returns
* Develop, maintain and update KPI information.
Ongoing / Upcoming Projects:
* Roll out and training of new out-of-pocket and credit card expenses system (Capture Expense). Main point of contact for this system/process.
* Support to ‘Procure-to-pay’ roll out.
* Involvement in ‘granular costing’ project, to allocate manufacturing overheads down to line level.
* Standard costing model – assist with roll-out/training, and update model with latest standard costs.
* SAP Super User for Finance team.
Essential Experience / Qualifications and Attributes Required:
* A’ level Maths or NVQ equivalent.
* Recognised Professional Accountancy Qualification (or close to achievement of).
* Microsoft Excel – intermediate/advanced.
* Team Player.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Continuous improvement mindset.
* Self-motivated and enjoys working to deadlines.
* High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
Desirable:
* Experience within the manufacturing or FMCG sector
* SAP experience, ideally Super-user
If you are looking for a new challenge and have the relevant experience, please submit an up to date CV by using the ‘apply’ button.
For an informal chat about this position please call Geraldine or Samantha on (phone number removed)