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This is a permanent, Stable position within a growing local company.
Job Description:
- Provide line management and leadership of the Finance team.
- Motivate and lead finance team members by clarifying roles and providing helpful feedback
- Maintain, control and optimise the ERP system for all financial and business processes.
- Create systems to prevent errors in data collection and calculations.
- Prepare timely monthly management accounts for the company accountants
- Review DME monthly management accounts in accordance with accounting policies.
- Manage company cash flow through monitoring transactions and by reviewing analysis to improve cash management in the company.
- Ensure that all financial transactions are properly recorded, filed and reported. This includes sales, purchases, payroll and all nominal ledgers.
- Manage Credit Control ensuring there are customer credit checks, setting credit limits, monitoring of aged debts and collection of outstanding amounts.
- Manage Finance team routine activities including payroll generation, staff expenses, P11Ds, PAYE settlement agreements and reconciliations. Ensuring adhere to HMRC regulations.
- Maintain control accounts including Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger, PAYE and VAT.
- Providing technical support and advice to all on-site companies regarding VAT and PAYE.
- Develop and improve financial systems and management information.
- Prepare annual statutory accounts documentation for Audit purposes.
- Maintain internal controls across the business and maintain a culture of process improvement.
- Assist the Head of Finance to coordinate, and enforce systems, policies, and procedures.
- Maintain a safe and secure work environment.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
- Contributes to team efforts by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Assist Head of Finance on projects including Costing, integration with new ERP system, Improving processes.
Person Specification:
- An Accountant with significant experience in fulfilling the complete range of financial management processe
- An understanding of the complexities of finance management, ideally with some experience within the manufacturing sector
- A strong IT skill set is essential including previous experience of Information Systems Management, in which you will have gained knowledge of ERP system implementation and optimisation
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Critical thinking, sound problem solving skills, analytical skills and use of initiative
- Experience in effectively managing a small team
- Strong personal organisation skills are required with experience in meeting regular accounting deadlines
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an employment agency for this vacancy
