Management Accountant - 15 month ftc

#BelongWithUs

Come and join us as a customer focused and results driven Management Accountant and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.

The Role:

As a Management Accountant, you'll work within our Finance team where this is a unique career-move to meet the needs of a complex organisation that is going through rapid growth within an evolving industry. As a Management Accountant, you’ll play a significant role by owning the month end Management Accounts process for City Plumbing branches. The Management Accountant be supported by two Finance Analysts and you’ll be responsible for ensuring compliance, efficiency and delivery of a robust set of management accounts for our City Plumbing branch network

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for the management and production of all aspects of the Management Accounts across the Specialist Business Units (DHS, NSS, Spares (Branches) and PTS Ireland) including production of the monthly P&L, flash report, balance sheet reconciliations and uploading results. 
• Supporting the production of the budget and reforecasts for the SBUs at the key reporting dates
• Submission of government reporting, including VAT, ROI VAT, and Intrastat
• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations to ensure strong internal controls
• Liaising with and supporting the FP&A reporting team with monthly balance sheet and P&L information
• Delivering weekly sales and trading margin reports to the wider business
• Providing financial modeling and analysis as needed
• Developing bespoke reports to bring insight and impact analysis to the forefront
• Accounting support on ad hoc reporting/projects as required. 

This is a hybrid-based opportunity with true flexibility to work from home, but you should be within commutable distance of our newly refurbished offices in Crick, Northamptonshire

You:

You’ll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with a proactive and analytical approach to problem-solving. You’ll be a qualified accountant, and enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Finance team and you’ll thrive on delivering excellent financial analysis, bookkeeping, credit control and reporting.

Skills and competencies

• Experience of financial controls and management accounts reporting
• Strong people management skills, able to aspire and develop those around you 
• Analytically-minded with experience of or desire to work alongside senior stakeholders
• Commercial experience in financial modelling (reporting, budgets, month-end etc)
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with excellent time-management

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: ACCA, CIMA, ACA, Assistant Management Accountant, Building Products, Construction, Finance Assistant, Finance BP, Finance Graduate, Finance Manager, Finance Analyst, Financial Analyst, Google Sheets, IT Finance, Junior Finance Analyst, Management Accountant.

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

#BelongWithUs

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.