Management Accountant

Optimum Recruitment Group are proud to be working exclusively with an amazing growth business based in East Leeds who are looking to appoint to a newly created role of Management Accountant.

The purpose of the role is to provide management support for all accounting activities and ensure the timescales for monthly reporting are adhered to. A keen eye for detail is required and there is great exposure to a wide range of areas, providing good opportunities in line with their growth plans.

Your duties would include:

• Preparation monthly management accounts, related reports and commentary for group companies.
• Working with the team to agree intercompany movement and reconciliations.
• Liaising with the team on any issues/discrepancies with the monthly management accounts or reconciliations and work with the team to resolve any queries.
• Calculating work in progress and posting the relevant accruals.
• Assisting in audit queries and information for preparation of statutory accounts.
• Preparing tax returns, such as VAT and CIS returns.
• Bank reconciliations
• Producing monthly cost reports.
• Maintaining controls and processes,

As the successful candidate you must be a team player and happy to roll your sleeves up and support with anything that needs dealing with in finance team. You must be able to demonstrate the following specific skills and experiences:

• Demonstrable experience of working within the construction industry would be essential, ideally an SME environment.
• You can be someone studying professional qualifications, an AAT technician or qualified by experience.
• Able to demonstrate relevant experience in a Management Accountant role.
• Strong IT skills and ideally some experience of using Xero.

Salary up to 40k depending on skills and experience plus benefits.