Management Accountant
EH Smith
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :7 years, 3 أشهر
• Financial Reporting and Analysis: Prepared monthly accounts for Northcot Brick and quarterly accounts for Bovingdon Brickworks. Managed journal postings for payroll, prepayments, and accruals.
• Cash Flow Forecasting: Led cash flow forecasting initiatives, analysing cash flows and aged debtors to enhance financial stability and accuracy.
• VAT and Tax Compliance: Managed VAT returns for Northcot, Bovingdon, Avery Estates, and ACS, ensuring compliance with Making Tax Digital (MTD) requirements. Prepared and submitted monthly intrastat declarations for the group.
• Budgeting and Re-forecasting: Prepared budgets and re-forecasts for Northcot, including cost variance analysis against prior year and budget.
• Account Reconciliation: Conducted control account reconciliations for Northcot and Bovingdon, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Excel Proficiency and Automation: Streamlined financial reporting processes using advanced Excel skills, focusing on automating tasks to boost eficiency and precision. Expanded VBA knowledge to optimise financial analysis and reporting tasks.
• Modernisation of Financial Processes: Transitioned supplier payments from cheques to electronic BACS, improving transaction eficiency and compliance with banking standards. Developed customised spreadsheets for data variance analysis, enhancing decision-making and data integrity.
• Audit Support: Prepared year-end audit files and managed audit requests for Northcot and Bovingdon. Posted and reconciled year-end audit journals, ensuring alignment with statutory accounts.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborated with various teams from subsidiaries within the group and partnered with senior-level operational stakeholders to ensure key requirements were met. Liaised with customers and suppliers, handling international supplier import queries and providing required documentation to customs.
• Expense and Supplier Management: Processed ad hoc supplier invoices and expense claims for Northcot and Bovingdon. Managed supplier account reconciliations, supplier payments, and posting of AR receipts and ad hoc receipts.
• Additional Responsibilities: Handled bank reconciliations for Northcot and Bovingdon, including associated cashbook postings. Completed and sent out national statistics surveys. Assisted with the collation of R&D
• Month-End Closings: Calculated and posted accruals, prepayments, deferred, and accrued revenue for Wavenet and its subsidiaries each month, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Sales Invoicing: Uploaded monthly sales invoices to Sage 200, maintaining precise financial records.
• Management Accounts: Produced and reviewed the management accounts pack, providing detailed commentary on variances to enhance financial decision-making.
• Supplier Account Management: Reconciled supplier accounts to supplier statements, ensuring timely and accurate payments.
• Direct Debit Claims: Prepared and uploaded monthly direct debit claims to the bank, streamlining payment processes.
• Support Functions: Assisted the purchase ledger clerk and cash assistant when required, contributing to a smooth financial operations workflow.
• Audit Support: Addressed auditor queries, provided necessary samples, and reconciled balances to ensure audit compliance and accuracy.
• Monthly Management Accounts: Prepared monthly management accounts for the subsidiary AMG Aluminium, including business units and central cost centres, following established procedures.
• Reconciliation Tasks: Conducted purchase, sales, and stock reconciliations, ensuring alignment between production, logistics software, and accounting software.
• Fixed Assets Management: Compared fixed assets register to Agresso logged fixed assets, posting depreciation, and managing additions and disposals.
• VAT and Tax Compliance: Prepared and submitted monthly VAT returns, Intrastat, and EC sales reports, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Financial Analysis: Performed monthly reviews, analysis, and commentary on accounts to identify variances, collaborating with other departments to address necessary actions.
• Business Performance Evaluation: Challenged business performance by developing and analysing data, providing insights and forecasts to drive improvements.
• Reporting and Forecasting: Reported results, plans, and forecasts to the business, ensuring transparency and informed decision-making.
• Costing Systems Accuracy: Ensured the accuracy of standard costing systems, including annual reviews of product standards in collaboration with production colleagues to reflect actual factory floor activities.
• Product Code and Reporting Structure: Maintained the integrity of product codes and business reporting structures to accurately report gross margins.
• Operational Finance Support: Provided finance support to allocated business areas, including weekly cost reviews with the operations team and evaluations of product profitability.
• Budgeting and Re-forecasting: Prepared annual budgets and interim re-forecasts, submitting them quarterly to ensure financial planning and strategy alignment.
CIMA
DMM
1st Class Honours