Our client is a fast growing, tech-enabled start-up that is presently making waves in their sector and quickly gaining customers. They've won multiple awards that show how exciting a company prospect this is including High Growth Team of the Year and Most Innovative Business. They can offer staff an inspiring place to work due to their strong company culture and entrepreneurial company spirit.

This is not a typical accounting role. You will be part of the management team and a lot of the work will involve reaching beyond the realm of finance to help the business achieve its strategic and operational goals. They need someone with excellent organisational and analytical skills, who can stay on top of internal reporting and statutory filings, while also delivering insightful financial analysis for ad-hoc projects when required.

Most of the work will require you to think independently and strategically to produce results where no pre-defined processes are in place. This provides a great opportunity for freedom and creativity in how those results are achieved.

Key duties -

• Supervise the production of the weekly revenue reporting
• Take full ownership of the monthly management accounts process
• Contribute to the development and improvement of reporting suite
• Hold monthly meetings with the business' heads of departments to discuss financial performance and strategic insights
• Assist the FD and CEO with the annual budgeting and forecasting process
• Oversee the day to day bookkeeping with assistance from Bookkeeper
• Take ownership of the credit control and invoicing process
• Design and implement new controls as the business grows and increases in complexity
• Assist the HR manager in the monthly payroll preparation and review
• Liaise with our external advisors to prepare and submit all statutory reporting requirements
• Assist the FD and other directors across the business by providing financial insight for the delivery of the business' key objectives and other ad-hoc projects

Experience required -

• Big-4 trained and ACA qualified
• You may be looking for your first move out of the Big-4, or already possess some commercial exposure
• A minimum of a 2.1 Bachelors degree
• Exemplary accounting knowledge
• Numerically proficient
• Excellent communicator
• Expert MS Office skills
• Commercially minded decision making
• Outstanding organisation and time management
• Self-starter
• Attention to detail

For more information please apply via the website or contact Alex Baxter Smith at Harvey John.

Harvey John recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.