Role Purpose:

Responsible for ensuring all financial and management transactions/insight is recorded in an accurate and timely fashion, monthly/weekly/daily reporting and helping to ensure compliance with statutory requirements.

Accountabilities:

• Production of daily/weekly and monthly management information on a timely and accurate basis
• Providing meaningful commentary on the variances to budget and on trend, highlighting potential risks and opportunities in the numbers
• Approving spends and ensuring budgetary control across the site
• Preparing costing's for new products, reviewing bill of materials
• Investigating variances and providing solutions/process implementation to resolve any ongoing issues
• Preparing monthly management accounts
• Full balance sheet reconciliations for the month end reporting pack and resolution of any variances within the following month
• Assisting in the preparation of the year-end audit file and liaising with both the internal and external auditors
• Supporting projects around stock accuracy and refining the stock process to eradicate stock discrepancies within the ERP system
• Managing one member of staff responsible for Credit Control and Accounts Payable

Person Specification

• Professional, engaging with a positive attitude
• Curious attitude towards learning and resolving problems, proactive individual who isn't afraid to make changes to the status quo in order to bring improvements
• Working quickly and meeting deadlines
• Strong character, ready to liaise with any personality around the business
• A strong communicator - based around our 'core' values of trust, honesty, respect, passion and admiration. Demonstrates a passion for what we do, and puts our customers at the heart of what we do.
• A passion and pride for delivering exemplary standards
• Driven and highly motivated to learn, develop and grow within their role

Skills/Experience:

• Accounting qualification required (CIMA/ACA/ACCA) - part qualified can be reviewed for the right candidate
• Strong knowledge of Excel, IF formulas, SUM Ifs, V Lookups and Pivot tables as minimum
• People managing or mentoring experience is a plus
• Ideally would have had purchase ledger experience but not essential
• Manufacturing experience is preferable
• Be comfortable offering both support and challenging the site leadership team
• A "hands on" approach
• Comfortable designing and implementing new processes and procedures

Get in touch for more details: laura.gunby@markssattin.com