Assistant Management Accountant - #2179399

Axon Moore are exclusively recruiting on behalf of a well-established business in Manchester city centre to appoint an Assistant Management Accountant. The business has undergone some structural change and has created this role to add extra support to the team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ACCA/CIMA part-qualified/AAT qualified accountant to join the group finance team covering seven operating companies. Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, you will handle the day-to-day transactional finance for the parent and holding companies and will assist with month end. As you develop, start to take more ownership and the role is designed to evolve at a steady and supportive pace.

Salary and benefits:

Salary £33-37k DOE. Benefits include study support, 25 days holiday, hybrid working 2 days in the office, Medicash, pension, discounted gym membership, C2W and car salary sacrifice schemes, study support and life & critical illness cover.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage transactional posting and ledger upkeep for the parent company.
• Process and record bank payments, including intercompany funding transfers to group companies.
• Reconcile the parent company bank accounts and maintain cash book accuracy.
• Record intercompany loans and interest accurately and keep balances up to date.
• Assist with month-end tasks for the parent company, such as accruals, prepayments, journals and balance sheet reconciliation prep, eventually taking ownership.
• Gather information from finance colleagues across the group and support the GFC with ad hoc finance tasks.
• Prepare monthly intercompany reconciliations across the group, agreeing balances with each company and resolving differences.
• Help maintain the group’s short-term cashflow forecast, updating actuals and collating inputs from group companies ready for the GFC’s review.
• Learn the group structure and how the monthly management accounts consolidate, and support budget-to-actual comparisons at group level
• Support the year-end audit, including parent company and group schedules and intercompany balance confirmations.
• Contribute to group budgeting and forecasting cycles, including cashflow and working capital forecasts.
• Take ownership of regular group reporting deliverables and deadlines.
• Support the preparation of year-end group and statutory accounts.
• Assisting with project work and keen to be involved with the adoption of AI tools for process and continuous improvement.
• Become a key point of contact for finance queries across the group.

Experience & Skill Requirements:

• AAT qualified with a view to moving onto ACCA/CIMA, or have already started ACCA/CIMA.
• Previous experience in a transactional role, with exposure to accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Strong IT skills, notably in Excel. Use of Xero would be beneficial.
• Desire and willingness to utilise AI tools such as Claude/Chat GPT, prior experience would be beneficial.
• A good understanding of financial accounting principles
• Ability to communicate to different levels in the organisation
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage changing priorities
• Work under own initiative, keen to provide solutions to problems identified.

If you would like to hear more about this role, please get in touch with Harriett Busby at Axon Moore