Management Accountant
Job Title: Management Accountant
Location: Essex
Salary: Up to £60k DOE + Bonus
We're recruiting a qualified Management Accountant on behalf of a well-established, privately-owned specialist logistics business headquartered in Essex. With over 30 years in operation, our client is a market leader in their niche managing complex international supply chains for some of the world's leading food and ingredients businesses. They operate a network of sites across the UK and Northern Europe, handling hundreds of thousands of tonnes of product annually. It's a business with genuine scale, strong accreditations and a real commitment to quality and sustainability.
This is a broad, hands-on role reporting directly to the Group Financial Controller, sitting at the centre of a busy finance function.
About the role:
- Produce monthly management accounts, P&L, cash flows and variance analysis
- Lead on VAT calculation, presentation and payment
- Manage the purchase order system and monthly review of sales invoices
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset schedules and bad debt provisions
- Review and amend monthly pre-payments and accruals
- Support the annual budget cycle and periodic forecasting
- Prepare, analyse and interpret business KPIs
- Take a lead role in annual audit preparation
- Develop and maintain project costing models and standard costing documents
- Liaise with financial and non-financial stakeholders up to MD and Commercial Director level
- Fully qualified accountant ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Minimum 2 years' experience in a management accounting role
- Strong analytical and numerical ability with excellent attention to detail
- Confident communicator comfortable working with both finance and non-finance teams
- Proactive, commercially minded and decisive
- Willingness to travel to European locations on an ad hoc basis
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