Management Accountant - ACCA or CIMA

Permanent, Full Time

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 per annum

Working: 35-hours per week, Monday - Friday

Location: Winnersh RG41 (Hybrid)

Are you ready to take your finance career to the next level? As a Management Accountant for REL UK Group, you’ll play a crucial role in our On Demand/Tactical business and Customer Budgets, providing real-time insights, enhancing processes, and working closely with key stakeholders to shape the future of our finance function. Your expertise will directly contribute to smarter decision-making and business growth.

This is an exciting new role within our expanding team, complementing our existing Management Accounts function as we continue to grow. If you’re ready to elevate your career in a dynamic and collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Owning Financial Performance: Take charge of revenue recognition and cost management, ensuring accurate financial reporting and profitability tracking.

• Driving Collaboration: Work closely with fellow management accountants and business teams to ensure seamless financial operations.

• Leading Performance Reviews: Conduct strategic review meetings to refine forecasts and enhance business insights.

• Becoming a Trusted Financial Partner: Act as the go-to expert for gross profit queries and provide critical financial support to stakeholders.

• Mastering Customer Reconciliations: Own and process customer reconciliations, including cost-plus reconciliations, to maintain financial accuracy.

• Shaping Client Strategies: Partner with senior management to optimise client account management and financial planning.

• Creating Smart Budgets & Quotations: Support the development of competitive and precise budgets for both new and existing clients.

• Owning Month-End Success: Contribute to a seamless month-end close by preparing top-notch management accounts.

• Setting the Pace for Annual Budgets & Forecasts: Assist in building robust financial plans that set the business up for success.

• Streamlining Journal Processing: Handle monthly journals including accruals, prepayments, deferred income, and accrued income with precision.

• Ensuring Balance Sheet Integrity: Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations to drive financial accuracy.

• Optimising Finance Systems: Leverage and enhance our European financial reporting system SAP-BPC while helping maintain Dynamics 365.

Experience & Qualifications

• A professional accounting qualification - ACCA or CIMA
• Proven experience in management accounting with expertise in month-end processes
• Experience in process improvement and efficiency initiatives.
• Background in creating financial reports, tools, and processes.

Skills & Technical Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to anticipate challenges.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively engage with stakeholders.
• Advanced MS Excel skills to handle complex financial data with ease.
• Strong financial systems skills, ideally within SAP-BPC and experience with Dynamics 365 being an advantage. 

What’s In It For You?

• A competitive salary and benefits package tailored to your expertise
• 24 days annual leave (increasing to 29 days) + bank holidays
• Exciting perks like, Electric Vehicle Scheme, Medicash, Pension (4%), Life Insurance, Perkbox, and Taste Card
• Supportive, inclusive environment with room to grow and innovate
• Opportunities to lead in a collaborative, forward-thinking company

Make your mark! Apply today and our Group Resourcing Manager will be in touch.

Eligibility: Only candidates eligible to work in the UK without visa sponsorship now or in the future need apply.

Founded in 2015, Advantage Smollan Limited (ASL) is jointly owned by Advantage Solutions (Advantage, based in the US) and Global Smollan Holdings (Smollan, based in South Africa) providing unified sales, marketing, and technology solutions for consumer electronics and goods manufacturers and retailers across the world.

Advantage Smollan offers the industry’s best capabilities and technology along with the local knowledge to address the unique dynamics of individual markets. The company combines Advantage’s and Smollan’s best practices and resources with the extensive experience and market leadership of each portfolio company – all aligned in service excellence, thought leadership, and entrepreneurial spirit to deliver better results for clients and customers. 

For more information, visit www.advantagesmollan.com.

For more information on Advantage, visit www.advantagesolutions.net.

For more information on Smollan, visit www.smollan.com.

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