Assistant Management Accountant

Role Responsibilities

• Processing invoices, reconciling delivery notes to invoices received and purchase orders
• Setting up new supplier accounts and maintaining existing account details within the purchase ledger
• Monthly reconciliation of supplier statements
• Assisting in the preparation of purchase summaries
• Processing business expense returns
• Cashbook and petty cash cheques
• Processing BACS payments and preparing cheques
• Preparing monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and other financial reports.
• Developing and overseeing financial systems and procedures and identifying and implementing improvements.
• Controlling income and expenditure within the business producing variance analysis to budgets.
• Supporting with generic accountancy tasks.
• Communicating with all levels within the organisation and being able to present financial information to non - finance members of staff.
• Analysing and managing risk within the business.

Required Skills & Experience

• A solid foundation of basic accounting skills is required for this role, including an understanding of the generally accepted accounting principles
• A commercial understanding of business is also important, along with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels to advise and liaise with senior members of staff.
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills
• Strong attention to detail.
• All duties should be carried out with a high degree of organisational and strategic thinking skills.