Job Description
Management Accountant
Location: Coventry, West Midlands, CV3 2RQ
Salary: Competitive, DOE
Contract: Permanent, Full time
Benefits:
• Competitive salary
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life cover
• Incapacity benefits
• Cash Back Medical Scheme
About the Company:
We are an innovative medical devices manufacturer of advanced wound care products, including combination products, from gelling fibres and fabrics. We deliver innovative, cost effective and quality products and solutions for the advanced wound care industry helping to improve patient care and wellbeing.
About the Role:
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team as a Management Accountant. In this role, you will be responsible for preparing insightful financial analysis and management accounts to support accurate financial reporting, planning, and forecasting.
You will play a key part in delivering process improvements, supporting the processing of financial transactions, and ensuring that robust controls are in place and operating effectively. We are looking for someone who is eager to make a real difference, thrives on challenges, and is ready to contribute to the ongoing success of our team.
If you have a passion for financial excellence and a drive to innovate, we d love to hear from you.
Duties to include:
• Identify, investigate, prioritise and deliver process improvements.
• Provide support for transaction processing of Sales ledger, Purchase ledger, Cash and Fixed Assets to fulfil segregation of duties requirements.
• Uses judgement to ensure that complex matters within these areas are appropriately accounted for and documented.
• Full responsibility for accounting for stocks and cost of sales, intangible assets and some other areas in line with FRS-102, highlighting any differences to group reporting requirements.
• Responsibility for preparing and ensuring the accuracy of Office of National Statistics returns, VAT returns, intrastat returns and other HMRC returns such as PSA and Class 1 A NI.
• Prepare monthly management accounting reports including variable product costs and fixed product costs, (non-product) department costs, capital reporting and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Use, review, maintain and update appropriate documentation of process flow and specific procedures including control mechanisms that operate.
• Produce relevant notes for the statutory accounts and provide relevant support to planning and forecasting process.
• Be an expert advisor and administrator for Orderwise general ledger and ensure that opportunities for automation are investigated and taken.
Key skills / abilities:
• Full Financial Qualification is essential e.g. CIMA or ACCA
• Numerate.
• Knowledge and experience of double entry accounting as well as accounting techniques employed in a multiproduct environment is essential.
• Experience with Orderwise is preferred but not essential
• Having successfully identified and delivered process improvements, efficiencies and cost savings is essential.
• Good communication skills, with the ability to translate financial requirements for budget holders are essential.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team is essential.
• Basic level of IT skills including Word, Outlook and Power Point and advanced level of Excel is essential.
• Proactive attitude to time management and prioritisation and ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure are essential.
• Good organisation and being adept at leaving a good audit trail is essential.
• Experience of working within a Quality / Compliance environment is beneficial.
• Ability to get on with and influence people internally to achieve objectives is beneficial.
• Commercial awareness is beneficial.
• Experience of working within a business partnering role would be helpful.
Important Information:
Due to the number of applications we receive, we will only contact those candidates that we want to take forward to interview; if you do not hear from us within 4 weeks, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
If you have the skills and experience we require for this role and are looking for a new challenge, please click on APPLY Today and forward an up-to-date CV and cover letter, explaining why you are a good fit for this role.
No Agencies please!
