Assistant Management Accountant - Caldecotte, United Kingdom - Connells Group HQ

Connells Group HQ

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Caldecotte, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

As part of the EA finance team you will be responsible for supporting senior management and driving performance in the business through the production and interpretation of high-quality management accounts.

Job Purpose:

Working in the management accounting team to maintain the ledgers, the month end routines and balance sheet reconciliations for Countrywide's largest company.

Key Duties:

Preparation/review of monthend journals e.g. accruals/prepayments, allocations etc across a variety of income and cost lines across the estate agency business
Ensure costs incurred centrally are allocated out to branches in accordance to agreed methodology and highlighting issues as required
Posting income from various sources for Countrywide lettings, working with other members of finance to investigate reconciling differences to cash
Review bank reconciliations throughout the month ensuring all queries are resolved for month end.
Ownership of balance sheet reconciliations including follow up of open items to ensure correctly dealt with on a timely basis.
Work closely with the finance teams to investigate P&L and balance sheet queries and recommend correcting actions where required
Support the Estate Agency Finance manager in ensuring the robustness and integrity of the business unit accounts

Required qualifications, experience and skills:

Studying a professional qualification (AAT, CIMA, ACCA) or qualified by experience. Study support will be provided for those wishing to continue accounting studies
Previous experience with monthend finance responsibilities and multiple deadlines
Ability to work to tight deadlines, and work under own initiative.
Intermediate Excel skills preferable (Presentation, V-Lookups, Pivot Tables, Data Analysis, Sumif(s) etc.)
Numerical and analytical skills, including experience of interpreting financial data and determining trends.
Experience of Microsoft Office suite, in particular Excel intermediate/advanced including modelling skills.

Connells Group, one of the largest and most successful
estate agency and
property services providers in the UK. Founded in 1936 and with a network or over 1,250 branches, the Group combines
residential sales and
lettings expertise with a range of services including
new homes,
mortgage services,
surveying,
conveyancing and more