Management Accountant (part-qualified)

We're working with a leading interior design brand in Essex currently seeking a Management Accountant to join their team based in Harlow. This is a premium global brand within their specialist industry, and they have a fantastic ethos of creativity and innovation.

As part-qualified Management Accountant, you will take ownership of the UK trading entity and provide clear, insightful reporting on group overheads and wages.

It is a hands-on position suited to someone who enjoys both technical accounting and commercial partnering and is comfortable working across teams and geographies.

The role involves full responsibility for ensuring the UK entity's accounts are accurate, well maintained and up to date at all times, alongside providing a group-wide perspective on overhead performance.

You will support functional heads with budgeting, forecasting, and cost control, and act as the main point of contact for overseas advisors, ensuring agreed deadlines, procedures, and controls are consistently met.

You will be responsible for reporting, budgeting and forecasting of Group Overheads and Group Wages & Salaries, presenting performance to functional leads in a clear and accessible way, compiling the annual Group Overhead budget for senior management review, and communicating approved budgets and ongoing performance to stakeholders.

Additional duties will include:

• Stock reconciliations and provisioning
• Bad debt and warranty provision calculations
• Rebate reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and accrual reconciliations
• Monthly VAT reconciliations, capex accounting and maintenance of the fixed asset register
• Running month-end reports and reconciling to nominal accounts
• Monthly payroll processing and payroll reconciliations
• Regular aged creditor and debtor analysis
• Oversight of Accounts Payable including supplier setup, credit checks, and aged creditor reviews, and monthly reconciliation of intercompany accounts.

You will also be the key point of contact for external audit and tax reviews, supporting the timely and accurate completion of statutory and audit requirements, as well as undertaking ad-hoc projects and tasks as directed by senior finance leadership.

Experience and Knowledge

• Part Qualified accountant - ACCA, ACA, or CIMA
• NAV ERP system skills along with JET reporting preferable
• Advanced excel skills.
• Experienced at dealing with non-finance managers.

Due to the location of the offices, this position will be suitable for those commuting from areas such as Bishops Stortford, Harlow, Cambridge, St. Albans, Chelmsford, Cheshunt, Hertford, Enfield, London, Brentwood, Basildon, Colchester, Braintree and Welwyn Garden City.

Zero Surplus is East Anglia's premier consumer recruitment agency, based just outside Cambridge our recruiters source staff for small and international B2B & B2C retail businesses across Cambridgeshire and the East of England.

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