Senior Management Accountant, Marcomms, Central London, Paying Up to £55,000
 
We are recruiting a fantastic new role within a large Media network for a Senior Management Accountant. You will be working with a group of finance professionals within a dynamic team that are seeking to increase the efficiency of the accounting services whilst working at all times to improve the control environment.
 
Reporting into the Financial Controller, you will ensure accurate completion of monthly, quarterly and yearly financial reports by the given deadlines for a number of UK corporate entities and to lead in delivering the results and reporting for the consolidated UK Group.
 
You should be a self-starter and have the ability to deal with people at all levels.  You should have a sense of humour and enjoy working, proactively, as part of the finance team. 
 
Duties and responsibilities:

• Determine month end timetable for all contributors to ensure Group reporting deadlines are met
• Produce monthly P & L including commentary on all material variances.
• Prepare and process month end journals/reclassification's.
• Perform reconciliations from the general ledger to the management accounts
• Review and lead reporting deliverables from the outsourced team
• Ensure agency commercial team provides necessary information for inclusion in month end numbers
• Liaise with agency commercial team on any areas of the management accounts under their control
• Produce departmental P & L statements and present a synopsis to various key stake holders, as required
• Identify areas where costs can be controlled and communicate these with department heads
• Analysis of the Balance Sheet position and explanation of variances against budget and previous quarters
• Perform reconciliations from the general ledger to the management account balances
• Cash flow modelling
• Co-ordination of monthly working capital reporting.
• Reconciliation of monthly payroll to rolling budget
• Reporting of headcount on a monthly basis
• Prepare the year-end statutory tax package
• Assist agency finance in producing annual budgets and monthly re-forecasts
• Prepare quarterly forecasts with actual and forward-looking budget
• Take ownership of overhead cost budgeting in conjunction with agency

Requirements:

• Finalist/Newly Qualified CIMA, ACCA, ACA 
• Double entry bookkeeping knowledge is essential in this role
• Strong working knowledge of Excel
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics a must
• Excellent analytical skills
• Takes responsibility of timely delivery to the deadline
• Quick to learn and adaptable to changing work allocation and environment
• Pro-active and with a can-do attitude and able to handle tasks and drive results without close supervision
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to communicate at all levels

If this sounds like you please do get in touch here or via my email deniz.dervish@tracerecruit.com.

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