Management Accountant

​Rewards and Benefits on offer:

• Immediate start.

• Car scheme.

• Enhanced pension.

• Training and development.

• Varied and interesting job role.

• Great resources.

• Great team culture.

The Company you’ll work for:

Our client is an established and successful company based in Cramlington. They are currently looking for a Management Accountant to join their team on a permanent basis. If you are interested and meet the person specification of the job role, please apply below.

The job you’ll do:

• Manage the preparation of monthly management accounts, short-term forecasts and budgets in line with group reporting formats and deadlines.

• Regularly review and periodically update standard product costs.

• Responsible for setting standard costs of new products.

• Obtain, interpret and analyse data and take a proactive role in assisting the senior management team to understand financial information.

• Analyse and understand key trends for orders, sales, profit and cash, highlighting key issues and variances from budget and/or forecast for the senior management team.

• Prepare ‘bridges’/analysis highlighting key movements between actual and budget/forecast.

• Manage project data within the business system to ensure data integrity is maintained and financial results are prepared in line with statutory and group accounting policies.

• Full responsibility for balance sheet reconciliations.

• Responsibility for year-end processes ensuring stock counts are carried out appropriately and inventory is valued appropriately on the balance sheet.

• Submit and have responsibility for other monthly reporting requirements including monthly VAT submissions.

• Prepare financial analysis and commentary for inclusion in the monthly management report, including collation and review of other report sections.

• Liaise with external auditors and tax advisors and to provide disclosure packs and tax analysis.

• Undertake ad hoc project work, review of slow moving stocks, general cost analysis to help drive continuous financial improvement, financial modelling scenarios.

About you:

• Must have access to full UK drivers licence, as you will be required to travel between sites.

• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience.

• Strong technical accounting knowledge and practical experience of standard costing is preferred.

• Strong analytical approach with a strong attention to detail, with the ability to identify and articulate trends or issues.

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA.

• Excellent working knowledge of accounts/finance IT systems, database management and a proficient user of office IT systems including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.