Caroline, CIMA part qualified, AAT qualified, 23-26K (Permanent)

Manufacturing, construction and utilities experience. 

• Daily cashflow management
• Production of the monthly management accounts
• Overhead analysis and overhead variance analysis
• Overhead analysis with department managers
• Purchase ledger, sales ledger and nominal ledger analysis and postings
• Prepayments and Accruals
• Balance sheet analysis and reconciliations
• Intrastat declarations
• National Statistics
• Invoice Financing
• Monthly Reconciliations
• VAT returns and EC sales lists
• Supervising sales ledger, purchase ledger and payroll staff
• Overseeing the Sales and purchase ledger and the cash books
• Bank reconciliations

Profile:                                               34647

Resides:                                             Lancashire

Qualifications:                                   CIMA (2009)

Position:                                             Management / Commercial Accountant

Salary sought:                                   30-35k

This candidate is currently working in a shared service function for a £130m t/o group of companies in the engineering and manufacturing sector. He has progressed from divisional management accountant over seeing two divisions of a £25m t/o business to a commercial group wide role liasing with directors supporting contract bids and tenders. Unfortunately he is now facing redundancy, but key areas of experience are:

• Reconciling forward deals set up for individual contracts.
• Creating summaries showing profits and losses created on contracts globally within the Group.
• Providing management accountants with any information / recharges that impact their accounts from Group in an appropriate time for them to action them.
• Training new accountants to Hyde Central Limited in the way things are done as per company policy.
• Reviewing quarterly management accounts for team members.
• Production of weekly MI reports with regards to the number of productive hours showing the current figure for over or under absorption.
• Production of a monthly EPL which involves work in progress and overhead reviews with various company directors, releasing completed work in progress and finally producing the report to be distributed to the board and individual company directors.
• Prepare quarterly management accounts for allocated companies
• Reviewing of actual overheads for any exceptional items which may distort trading profits.
• Holding meetings to review work in progress with directors of companies to ensure no unexpected losses are to be incurred after date.  Calculation of a provision to reflect these losses which is then included within the accounts.
• Reviewing and updating the fixed asset register, calculation of depreciation
• Bank balance and petty cash tin reconciliation and posting of a journal for petty cash transactions onto the system.
• Reconciliation of each balance sheet account.
• Preparation and submission of quarterly VAT returns. 
• Convert the four quarters management accounts into a set of financial accounts at the end of the financial year