MacKenzie King are excited to be recruiting a Management Accountant to join a well-established and heavily respected organisation, based in Colchester. As a Management Accountant you will be responsible for the production of monthly management accounts and business partnering with managers across the organisation.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts
- Work with budget holders to produce meaningful narrative and understand opportunities and risks within the organisation
- Oversee and sign off payment runs and ensure accuracy and timeliness of payments
- Prepare a monthly cash flow
- Prepare month-end journals and Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Support with reporting and analysis for grant applications
- Provide support, advice and guidance to the wider staff team to ensure effective and confident engagement with financial policies, processes, and internal control systems
- Participate in the preparation of the organisation’s annual financial statements
- Assist the auditors with audit queries
- Other duties / ad-hoc support where required
Key Skills & Attributes:
- Accounting qualification (AAT Qualified or CIMA/ACCA part-qualified)
- Strong analytical and Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, Lookups, etc.
- Experience using accounting software. Working knowledge of Xero is desirable.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels of internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task, think creatively, and learn quickly
- Ability to work independently under own initiative and cooperatively as part of a team