Management Accountant - The Pilot Group : Job Details

Management Accountant

About Pilot Group:

At the Pilot Group we believe in using technology to make the places we live and work SMART, SAFE and SUSTAINABLE. Our businesses cover Energy Management, Traffic Control Systems, and Electrical Wholesale working across a wide range of commercial and industrial applications. We achieve this by designing and investing in innovative products and solutions that reduce energy costs, enable management through data, and improve safety.

The Company are committed to fostering a high-performance culture and ensuring our employees thrive in an inclusive, supportive environment. As we embark on our strategic growth plan to grow revenues, this role will be crucial to support the growth plans, with involvement in key projects.

Responsibilities

• Management of one transactional member of staff within the Finance Team.
• Responsible for the preparation of monthly management accounts for two business units within the group. Including P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cashflow Reconciliations, along with commentary and variance analysis.
• Preparation of monthly board pack, consisting of performance analysis, commentary, and progress on key strategic actions, to be used by board of directors and senior management team.
• Full monthly balance sheet reconciliations, covering Fixed Asset Register, Debtors, Creditors, Cash, Intercompany, Stock and VAT Liabilities.
• Monthly reforecasting of business performance against original budget, along with commentary to support reforecast.
• Assist and support the creation of annual budgets for multiple business units.
• Preparation of quarterly VAT Returns
• Preparation of monthly CIS return
• Oversight and control of all overheads for two business units in line with group purchasing controls.
• Ad-Hoc reporting to support key business decisions and strategy development
• Regular meetings with sales & production departments to understand and accurately forecast monthly revenue and job completion, along with cost management to ensure margin targets are met.
• Assist in year-end external audit, fulfilling and completing auditor requests in a timely and accurate manner.
• Development and management of dashboards across multiple business units and departments to support KPI reporting.
• Calculation & Posting of Monthly prepayment & accrual journals.
• Reconciliation of payroll calculations and posting of journals to accounting system.
• Oversight of weekly payment runs to suppliers.
• Management of debtor’s ledger for two companies, ensuring overdue debt is kept within group targets.
• General working capital management and control.

Essential Requirements:

• Senior Part Qualified or newly Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA.
• Advanced Excel VLOOKUPs / Pivot Tables / Macros / SQL / VBA.
• Sage experience.
• Ability to work closely with non-finance colleagues and business partner to explain financial analysis and support with decision-making to meet business objectives.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Strong communicator - written and verbal.
• Ability to challenge and say no when needed.
• Business Central is not an essential but would be a benefit.

Person specification:

We are looking for a high energy, driven finance professional who is ambitious to further their career. The individual will need to be agile, to meet the demands of a fast-paced SME, with an ability to meet deadlines whilst driving commercial value.

Recruitment Agencies;

The Pilot Group operates a strict PSL and will not accept any unsolicited CVs sent to any member, employee, representative or business unit of the Pilot Group. Any unsolicited introduction will be treated as a CV 'sent in kind’ and as such The Pilot Group rejects all liability to pay any such fees for an unsolicited introduction.