Management Accountant

**We have an exciting opportunity for a Management Accountant to join the UK’s largest specialist wine retailer**

**Are you AAT/ACCA qualified/part qualified?**

**Do you have 3-4 years Management Accounting experience within the Retail / FMCG Environment?**

**Do you have SAGE X3/SEI experience?**

**If you have answered yes to these questions, Majestic Wine would be delighted to hear from you**

**The Role**

As Majestic Wine Management Accountant you are responsible for a preparation of the management accounts for the Majestic Group entities.You will be part of a talented and committed finance team, employing your first class technical and communication skillsto drive a high-performance culture: doing the basics brilliantly and adding value to your business partners through developing strong working relationships, great storytelling, innovative ways of serving customers and data-led, commercial decision-making

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for month end close activities and reporting within business deadlines.
- All income statement accounts analysed and explained for business areas using SEI reporting.
- Compile monthly results, financial & non-financial KPIs across the Business.
- Update business areas on Board Pack by WD4.
- Support the budget andreforecast process, ensuring they are completed to a high level of accuracy, ensuring results are fully explained and all deadlines are achieved
- Analyse, monitor, and drive awareness of expenses, generating opportunities to manage these down when needed
- Create compelling ways to communicate financial performance to the wider business, driving engagement & profitable growth
- Provide routine and ad-hoc analysis to support all areas of the business
- Work collaboratively with counterparts across the Business to share methods of best practice and identify areas for improvement.
- Maintaining balance sheet accounts, reconciled and clean within reporting deadline and with supporting data.
- Provide support for annual statutory audit and annual corporation tax process.
- Provide cover and support for counterparts within the Financial Reporting team.
- Any other activities required to complete the role.

**Knowledge & Skills Required**:

- Qualified accountant or studying for a recognised accountancy qualification (such as AAT/ACA/ACCA/CIMA etc.) with ideally 3-4 years experience in the UK.
- Sage/SEI experience desirable
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to summarise and explain processes clearly and concisely
- Excellent attention to detail and high degree of accuracy
- Well organised and effective person with good time management and prioritisation skills
- A self-starter and motivated person, who can demonstrate initiative and able to work independently when needed
- Eager to take responsibilities and take initiative
- Ability to demonstrate what good looks like and maintain robust balance sheet reconciliations
- High level of spreadsheet modelling ability (e.g. lookup functions, pivot tables) desirable.
- Good communication skills with the confidence and credibility to interact with senior management.

**Who are we?**

Majestic Wine is the UK’s leading specialist wine retailer. Majestic was founded in 1980 and, alongside its Commercial and French divisions, had a turnover of over £300m last financial year. Alongside strong growth in multi-channel sales, Majestic believethere is still a key role of a retailer that is loved by customers and loved by suppliers.We pride ourselves on our enthusiastic, knowledgeable and friendly people, who, working as part of a close-knit team deliver exceptional customer service in a vibrantand fast-paced retail environment.More information can be found atIn August 2019 Majestic announced it will be continuing its story under new private ownership and was purchased by US investment firm - Fortress. The sale included the Majestic brand, stores, website, Commercial and French division. Fortress are now backingthe vision for the future of Majestic and they see a lot of headroom for growth. The investment group pointed to Majestic’s ‘strong cross channel journey, expert staff and widespread brand affection’ when deciding to buy the business from its PLC status.

**Benefits**:

- A competitive salary
- Performance related bonus
- Up to 20% Staff Discount
- 21 Days Holiday per year and we also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Life assurance 3x your salary
- Contributory pension
- Free parking on site
- An unparalleled fun company culture that's focused on empowering and developing our employees

**Job Specifics**:

- **Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract, Maternity Cover 9/12 Months**:

- **Location**: Our Head Office is based in Watford, just 20 minutes from London Euston. From Watford Junction, we are a 15-minute walk to our Head Office
- ??We are proud to offer a new Agile Working Policy for Support Centre colleagues; a blend of office and home working which will include a number of days working at the Majestic Office (post CV19 lockdown restrictions_)

**No Agencies Please -**We thank you for your interest in working with Majestic Wine, however, we have a PSL who will be supporting us if needed. We will not pay fees or acknowledge any CV's supplied to Majestic Wine unless you have been briefedon the role by a member of our Talent Team.