Accountant

Our client based on the outskirts of Mansfield are looking for an Accountant to join their busy accounting team for a number of small business’.
The purpose of the role is to provide a wide range of accountancy and professional services including the preparation of budgets, budgetary control, closedown procedures and financial advice to the director, managers, budget holders and other company employees.
The post-holder will be part of a small accountancy team and will be required to have the flexibility demanded by such a role.
Monthly processes to include
- Wages Reconciliation for all companies and input journals
- Maintenance of fixed asset registers and reconciling back to the Trial Balances.
- Review monthly invoices
- Time-apportion certain invoices in prepayment & accruals schedules and release expense each month. Reconcile back to the Trial Balances.
- Work with department managers to collect information using other internal systems and reports.
- Review the balance sheet and identify the cause for any significant changes.
- Review the monthly profit and loss, comparing revenue, expenses and margins to prior months and years to get and drill down further if anything appears inconsistent.
- Manage the monthly MI spreadsheets
- Using Microsoft PowerPoint to create the monthly slides for each business. Distribute to the relevant managers with some commentary. Liaise with managers to agree a meeting time & date to discuss the month.
- Use Microsoft Word to take the meeting minutes, filtering to include necessary information from discussions. Be prepared to answer queries and address any inconsistencies that occur in the figures. Distribute the minutes post-meeting.
- Producing MI for the Managing Director and external stakeholders.
Annual Processes
- Collect financial information for the insurance renewal.
- Liaise with auditors, producing lead schedules for them to work from. Answer queries and aid investigations to ensure a smooth audit with an unmodified opinion can take place.
- Take backups of Sage, closing down the year end rolling over the nominal codes. Ensure exports are taken before and after the year end procedure.
- Produce certain year-end journals from internal information, e.g., a provision for untaken holidays, bonuses, etc.
Hours of work are 8.30am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday.
Starting Salary: £29,000 - £32,000 dependant on experience.
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