Assistant Management Accountant – 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

A market leading International organisation in the fashion industry is seeking an Assistant Management Accountant to join their established team on a hybrid basis based in Central London on a 6 month FTC. You will be responsible for providing financial control and reporting to the UK team whilst working closely with the UK Controller.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Invoicing income and expenses for clients, including recharges
• Monitoring receivables and liaising with the outsourced credit control team and internal agents to achieve timely collection
• Including weekly reporting of collections with commentary against forecast
• Preparing multicurrency statements
• Review and approval payment proposals for fees
• Answering client and queries (including tax enquiries)
• Oversight of vendor payments and liaison with group accounts payable function to ensure all AP payments are made on a timely basis
• Ensure sufficient controls are in place for vendor creation/AP and AR process & work to improve these processes
• Arrange and attend meetings with business leaders to ensure Global CRM system is up to date to track all confirmed deals plus anything in the pipeline

Financial and Management Accounting

• Responsibility for the financial month end and year end close process to agreed timetable including financial review with variance commentary, including
• Revenue Recognition analysis and journal entries
• Balance sheet reconciliations with full supporting commentary for balances in line with group policy
• Variance analysis of actual results against budgets & plan
• Review of Travel and Entertainment expenditure
• Reconciliation of petty cash
• Regular meetings with the business supported by monthly finance reporting pack identifying KPI’s
• Assisting with ongoing initiatives to improve financial data and provide accurate reporting
• Weekly cash-flow disbursements and 90-day cash forecasting

Other:

• Working closely with the UK Controller and providing regular updates and raising issues promptly
• Working closely with the UK Controller and Legal Counsel on all legal matters
• Constantly reviewing all internal working schedules and championing improvement and change
• You may also be required to carry out any other duties which are within the scope and purpose of the job

Knowledge and Experience:

• Part Qualified/Newly Qualified (CIMA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent)
• Confident and willingness to challenge commercial stakeholders
• Flexible team player with the ability to work with commercial staff across the organisation, across different territories
• Must be able to work on own initiative to identify and resolve problems

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Strong communication and team working
• Proactive attitude
• High attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to prioritize workload
• High level of numeracy

You will have gained experience in a similar role that is Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable in focus and have supported in the production of the Management Accounts. This is a 6 month fixed term contract that has the potential to be extended. This is also a hybrid role with 3 days based in the office in Central London.

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