Management Accountant (12 month FTC)

Job description
Make your career count

At Price Bailey, we provide exciting opportunities for training, personal growth and career engagement. We believe in fostering happiness and fulfilment in your work, whilst supporting and inspiring you to grow. We understand that your life extends beyond the workplace, which is why our Smart Working culture promotes flexibility, allowing you to choose when and where you work, whilst still providing excellent client care.

A well-established firm of chartered accountants and business advisors, we offer a wide range of services, including auditing, accounting, tax and corporate finance. We proudly serve a diverse client base across the UK and internationally, with a strong focus on entrepreneurial owner-managed businesses that share our passion for innovation.

What do the team do?

The team oversee all financial and accounting operations within the business, ensuring all financial transactions and reports are accurate, timely, and compliant with statutory regulations.

The role of a Management Accountant involves working independently with minimal supervision, managing workload to meet deadlines, delegating tasks to junior staff, and communicating professionally with colleagues and contacts. The work includes preparing company and subsidiary management accounts to trial balance, reviewing nominal transactions and maintaining lead schedules, preparing VAT returns and other regulatory returns and financial information.

What will I be doing?

As a Management Accountant you will have ownership of the following tasks:
• Showing a reliably high level of competence in maintaining accounting records and producing accounts up to a trial balance position. Including demonstrating thoroughness in carrying out analytical review of accounts.
• Displaying and apply in-depth knowledge in preparing VAT returns.
• Producing detailed and insightful management reports for departments, checking own work to ensure the accounts are accurate and to reduce required review time.
• Adhering to compliance procedures: i.e., follows instructions, makes clear notes and follows outlined procedures.
• Overseeing the purchase ledger function, including the completion of regular reviews of the ledger and nominal review.
• Motivating and mentor more junior members of the team by effective communication and constructive feedback.

What experience do I need?

Whilst having the following experience is advantageous, we value passion and potential. If you meet the minimum criteria listed below and are eager to develop yourself, we would love to hear from you:
• ACA / ACCA part or fully qualified or QBE (minimum criteria).
• Confident, articulate and an effective communicator at all levels (minimum criteria).
• Well-presented and professional.
• Team player with a flexible and proactive approach.
• Excellent IT skills, knowledge of Sage 200 an advantage.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

What's on offer?

In addition to your salary, we also offer the following benefits:
• 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy / sell up to 5 days holiday)
• Private medical
• Contributory pension scheme
• 4x life assurance
• All employee share scheme
• Family friendly policies e.g. paid time off for dependants
• 2 days paid for volunteering
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including shopping discounts

Price Bailey aspires to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of their social background, age, disability, sex, ****** orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We are an equal opportunities employer and place inclusion at the heart of what we do. Our workplace is one where diversity is embraced and where everyone is empowered to be their authentic selves.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know in the appropriate section of your application. For candidates with a disability who meet the minimum criteria of the role, we also offer a guaranteed interview, which you can opt into as part of your application.

A polite note to recruitment agencies

Price Bailey will only accept CV's from recruitment agencies who have been briefed on specific roles by our Resourcing team and where contractual agreement exists already. We do not accept speculative CV's and agency fees will not be owed in these instances. Should you wish to be considered for our approved supplier list please contact recruitment@pricebailey.co.uk

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