The Role
Initially, your focus will be on helping the finance team get up to date and ready for the new system.
You'll be involved in:
- Bringing approximately four months of accounts up to date
- Completing a significant backlog of reconciliations
- Reviewing and resolving outstanding issues
- Working across five businesses within the Group
- Supporting year-end and audit activity
- Identifying and correcting historic errors
- Getting financial data clean and reconciled ahead of the SAP Business One migration
- Supporting the implementation and transition to SAP Business One
- Helping prepare the finance function for the launch of a new business
- Working closely with the FD and Senior Management Accountant
- Providing hands-on support to a seven-person finance team
What We're Looking For
This is a role for an experienced Management Accountant who is comfortable operating in a busy, fast-moving environment.
You'll ideally have:
- Strong Management Accounting experience
- Sage 200 experience- essential
- Previous experience within manufacturing- essential
- Highly developed reconciliation skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Experience dealing with large volumes of financial data
- The ability to identify and resolve discrepancies
- Experience supporting year-end and audit
- Confidence working across multiple entities
- Strong Excel skills
- A hands-on and proactive approach
Why Consider It?
This is a particularly interesting time to join the business.
You'll be coming in at a point where the finance team needs additional support, while simultaneously undergoing a major systems transformation and continuing to grow.
That means you'll have the opportunity to:
- Make an immediate impact
- Help bring a finance function back under control
- Work across multiple businesses within a growing Group
- Play a key role in a major SAP Business One implementation
- Get involved in the launch of a new business
- Work closely with the FD and senior finance team
- Help establish a more effective month-end routine
- Move the business from firefighting to reliable, meaningful financial information
The initial requirement is for 3 months, with the potential for the right person to continue on a longer-term / permanent basis.
If you're an experienced Management Accountant with strong Sage 200 and manufacturing experience, and you're available to start quickly, this could be an excellent opportunity to get stuck into a genuinely interesting project.