Interim Management Accountant

About the role:

We are currently seeking to appoint a Management Accountant to join our finance team to work alongside one other Management Accountant and the Financial Controller to deliver consistent, accurate and timely management accounts reporting and ensure a robust review and control environment prevails across the Financial Control team. This role is a key conduit between the Financial Control and FP&A teams.

Key duties include:

Bullet points of key duties to ensure the candidate understands the responsibilities for the role.

Experienced in management accounts preparation incl. cashflow statement
General Ledger journals incl. prepayments & accruals
Completing all intercompany transactions and all relevant journal entries
Completing monthly reconciliation of key balance sheet accounts incl. Interco accounts
Coordinates month end close timetable ensuring that all parties deliver on time and consistently seeks further improvement to reduce time-to-close
Conducting analytical review of monthly figures to support on variances to budget/forecast
Works closely with FP&A to deal with month end queries in order to produce management accounts pack with commentary explaining variance drivers
Supporting the year end statutory accounts production and audit process
Responsible for Fixed Assets register and posting monthly depreciation journals as well as reconciling Fixed Asset balance sheet accounts
Preparing and formatting ad hoc reports and analysis on request

About you:

Seasoned preparer of periodic reports and delivery of the month end close
Experience of maintaining Fixed Asset registers
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
Property sector experience (an advantage)
Worked in a PE backed / leveraged business
Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel & experience of Aareon QL

Qualifications

Qualified accountant, preferably CIMA, ACA or ACCA.

If you are interested in the role, please e-mail your CV to jobs@sagehousing.co.uk.