Assistant Management Accountant

Key Responsibilities
• Purchase Ledger Management: Process, code, and post supplier invoices accurately across multiple sites, ensuring correct cost-centre allocation across relevant cost centres and overhead categories.
• Supplier Reconciliations: Perform regular supplier statement reconciliations to resolve queries, trace missing invoices, and ensure the aged creditors list is clean and accurate for payment runs.
• Month-End Support: Assist in the preparation of monthly management accounts for individual sites, including calculating month-end accruals for un-invoiced supplier deliveries, prepayments, and journal entries.
• P&L Analysis: Review site-level Profit & Loss (P&L) statements, investigating variances against budget and previous periods.
• Gross Profit (GP) & Stock Control: Collaborate with site managers and operational teams to match purchase ledger data against weekly stock takes. Highlight inefficiencies, price creep, or cost discrepancies.
• Revenue Reconciliation: Reconcile daily sales (EPOS) against cash, credit card payments.
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations: Maintain and reconcile key balance sheet accounts, including the AP control account and intercompany transactions.

The Ideal Candidate
• Experience: Minimum 2-3 years of experience in a finance role, with solid hands-on experience in purchase ledger/accounts payable and reconciliations. Prior experience within hospitality, retail, or leisure is highly desirable.
• Qualifications: Part-qualified CIMA / ACCA , or a senior AAT studier.
• Tech Savvy: Proficient in Excel (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables). Experience with multi-site accounting software (e.g., Xero, Sage) or automated invoice capture and stock tools (e.g., Dext, Approvalmax) is a massive plus.
• Attention to Detail: High level of accuracy when processing high-volume supplier transactions and spotting discrepancies.
• Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills. You need to be comfortable chasing suppliers and communicating financial data to non-financial operational managers and stakeholders.
• Right to Work: Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
 

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