Assistant Management Accountant

1 month ago


Caldecotte, United Kingdom Connells Group HQ Full time

As part of the EA finance team you will be responsible for supporting senior management and driving performance in the business through the production and interpretation of high-quality management accounts.
**Job Purpose**:

- Working in the management accounting team to maintain the ledgers, the month end routines and balance sheet reconciliations for Countrywide's largest company.

**Key Duties**:

- Preparation/review of month-end journals e.g. accruals/prepayments, allocations etc across a variety of income and cost lines across the estate agency business
- Ensure costs incurred centrally are allocated out to branches in accordance to agreed methodology and highlighting issues as required
- Posting income from various sources for Countrywide lettings, working with other members of finance to investigate reconciling differences to cash
- Review bank reconciliations throughout the month ensuring all queries are resolved for month end.
- Ownership of balance sheet reconciliations including follow up of open items to ensure correctly dealt with on a timely basis.
- Work closely with the finance teams to investigate P&L and balance sheet queries and recommend correcting actions where required
- Support the Estate Agency Finance manager in ensuring the robustness and integrity of the business unit accounts

**Required qualifications, experience and skills**:

- Studying a professional qualification (AAT, CIMA, ACCA) or qualified by experience. Study support will be provided for those wishing to continue accounting studies
- Previous experience with month-end finance responsibilities and multiple deadlines
- Ability to work to tight deadlines, and work under own initiative.
- Intermediate Excel skills preferable (Presentation, V-Lookups, Pivot Tables, Data Analysis, Sumif(s) etc.)
- Numerical and analytical skills, including experience of interpreting financial data and determining trends.
- Experience of Microsoft Office suite, in particular Excel intermediate/advanced including modelling skills.

**Connells Group**, one of the largest and most successful **estate agency** and **property services** providers in the UK. Founded in 1936 and with a network or over 1,250 branches, the Group combines **residential sales** and **lettings** expertise with a range of services including **new homes**, **mortgage services**, **surveying**, **conveyancing** and more



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