Accountant

Mitchell Adam ,
Solihull, West Midlands
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £24,000 per annum

Overview

A fantastic opportunity is now available for an up and coming Accountant with prior experience within practice. It is a hybrid role combining Practice with Industry where you will supervise a junior member of staff and complete the monthly management accounts alongside further duties across the organisation including elements of business partnering. This Accountant position is a newly formed position with the company. As the business continues to grow you will be a pivotal member of the finance team, working closely with the Senior Finance Manager who will continue to give you more exposure as time goes on. Ideally, you will: • Be an accountant with prior practice experience that includes month end management accounts, VAT returns and processing and reviewing bookkeeping for junior members of staff • Be an outgoing individual who enjoys liaising with internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis • Be looking for a longstanding stable position within an organisation that will be able to offer progression a few years down the line • Have intermediate to advanced level excel skills and ideally have experience of a number of accounting software including XERO In return, you will: • Be offered the opportunity to manage a junior member of staff where prior management experience is not essential • Join an SME business in the next stage of growth where you will be a pivotal member of the finance team with a real say in terms of how the team moves forward • Put your practice experience built up to date into a new and exciting challenge within industry • Work in a close knit, friendly office environment alongside like-minded individuals where you will be encouraged to develop your role through continuous improvements to procedures, systems and processes This is a great opportunity for an Accountant with prior practice experience to gain further exposure and enhance their career potential in an industry based Management Accountant role. If you like the sound of this position, and have the experience to match, apply, as this role won’t be around for long. The Business: • Wholesaler of electronics - printing products, ink toner cartridges and other printing equipment • Import everything into the UK and work with partners from other online companies on Amazon, eBay and other places, not small - SME business • They have 10-11 partner companies - subsidiaries. At the moment they are going through a big restructure - Pushing into new markets especially online from providing storage and logistics, to management and compliance accountancy and finance • They have online businesses not only in with a UK presence but worldwide, with storage facilities where they can hold items for selling partners and they can further help with marketing branding, taxes compliance Role: • Newly formed Management Accountant position reporting directly into the Finance Manager and supervising one junior member of staff • Perform and oversee the management accounts for a number of subsidiaries within the management consultancy • Main purpose to monitor that everything is done on time by the junior member of staff and review bookkeeping • Complete tax returns and compliance for UK and abroad - registered for taxes in other countries as well • Month end management accounts, preparation of stat accounts, journal postings, import export, intercompany accounting • Dealing with external accountant, work closely with non-financial stakeholders both internal and external Clients looking for: • Someone who can come in and get the job done, confident in completing these tasks and won’t need much hand holding • A stable candidate who doesn’t job hop and can see the opportunity and buys into what the business are looking to do • Ideally wants someone from a Practice background who understands tax well and is used to preparing accounts for multiple sites • A people person looking for a nice working environment and enjoys liaising with colleagues and stakeholders across the business • XERO accounting software would be beneficial along with strong spreadsheet