Management Accountant

(Should you choose to accept it … )

Is to:

• To assist with, manage and improve finance operations
• Assist with financial reporting and forecasting 
• Assist with and prepare statutory reporting
• Ensure compliance  
• Work together with your FireMate colleagues 
• Bring your best every day 
• Exercise your skills, knowledge and talents 

• Participating in the monthly close on a regular basis with a view to leading it by month three.
• Collaborating with and educating the operating teams to improve their performance and capability, particularly ensuring information is submitted in a timely and accurate manner. 
• Ensuring accounts are monitored, inventory is appropriately valued, debtors and creditors maintained.
• Improving transactional processes, maintaining the general ledgers, simplifying the business and deploying information technology.
• Providing high-quality business performance reporting, insight and constructive challenge to facilitate robust commercial and operational decision making.
• Completing weekly reconciliation and reporting of cash and sales figures (in line with IFRS 15).
• Producing month-end reports and forecasts including gross margin analysis and sales analysis.
• Helping the FD manage working capital and cash-flow performance, support decision-making on investment opportunities, and identify and highlight potential risks to the Company’s financial position.
• Assisting FD in the consolidation and management of strategic planning, annual budgeting and monthly rolling forecast cycles.
• Ensuring appropriate internal controls are in place and effective across the company – work with colleagues to simplify and standardise key processes.
• Assisting with preparation of the 6-month statutory accounts reporting to our FTSE parent company. Including the yearend preparation of corporation tax computations plus the local accounts.
• Supporting the external audit by providing data requested by them on a timely basis, liaising with other departments and relevant contacts in the organisation.

• Accountancy qualifications (ideally ACA, CIMA/ACCA) with 2-3 years experience, preferably in manufacturing.
• A commercial background.
• A hands-on approach to maintain deadlines and assist others in the department.
• Excellent IT skills (MS office plus accounting software experience).
• Strong knowledge of bookkeeping.
• Good organisation skills.
• Good analytical skills.
• A need to get the details right.

• M365
• Xero
• GoCardless
• Other IT deployed within the business
• A Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (just kidding )

• Resourceful
• Full of ideas (some good, some, well…)
• A team player
• Ready, willing and able to learn
• Organised
• A good listener
• Good at speling and a keen aye for dretail
• Really into dad jokes
• Newly qualified as an ACA, CIMA/ACCA or CA
• Looking for a new challenge in a digital services environment;

• Coffee, snacks and friendly banter
• Having your birthday off when it falls on a normal workday fun day
• Red Converse shoes
• Sunshine
• Dry, witty humour