Assistant Management Accountant

This role will work collaboratively within the finance team to manage day-to-day financial activities for the Workplace segment, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and the effective flow of financial information across the business.

What you’ll do

• Keeping general and subsidiary ledgers (including purchases and sales ledgers) accurate and up to date.
• Being responsible for processing of related ledger entries for all Workspaces across the group.
• Contribute to the production of timely and accurate financial and management information including performance and analysis across the group.
• Conducting variance analyses and investigate deviations from Workspace segment budgets or forecasts.
• Driving the Workspaces monthly invoicing cycle.
• Coordinating onboarding of Workspaces customers and suppliers.
• Monitoring and managing supplier purchase orders. Ensuring that invoices are posted against correct projects and purchase orders.
• Maintaining cash flow forecasts for the Worspace segment and incorporating this information into overall company forecasts.
• Managing business rates, utility charges and parking fees for all locations.
• Ensuring compliance with Group financial control policies.
• Working closely with the Business in order to understand, influence and drive workspaces financial performance.
• Periodically conducting expense reviews in order to identify cost-reduction opportunities.
• Championing financial awareness and diligence within Workspaces service team.
• Contribute towards driving continuing financial process improvement.
• Supporting Group Financial Manager in completing the year end statutory audit.
• Support the wider Finance team in delivering overall team objectives
• Effective planning and prioritisation skills with the ability to keep track of multiple tasks and deliverables
• Analytical, with the ability to think critically and to understand, interpret and articulate complex reports, requirements, or recommendations
• Excellent Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Attention to detail to avoid/remove the risk of error, wherever possible, with a strong focus on quality.

Your skills

Essential:

• AAT or similar foundational qualification.
• Working towards ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification.

Your experience

Essential

• Experience with reconciliations and payment process.
• General accounting experience, eg. Issuing invoices, allocating payments
• Experience with Supplier PO-to-pay compliance

Nice to have:

• Experience with Dynamics BC
• Experience with membership or workspace billing operations

Who you are

• Personally resilient, with the ability to stay focused on the overall objective, responding to challenges in a calm and measured way
• Energised by the challenges and opportunities presented by working for a high-growth company
• Passionate about the development of cybersecurity and other areas of emerging technology
• Educated to a Bachelor-degree level or equivalent
• SC or DV clearance desired
• This role may require some national travel for delivery of projects and travel to all Plexal sites
• Due to the nature of this position, our work and our client engagements, you must be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify for SC clearance, you must be a British Citizen or have resided in the UK for the last five years with no extensive periods outside of the UK. Pre-existing SC welcome. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom-security-vetting