Assistant Management Accountant

Job Title: Assistant Management Accountant

Location: Carlisle

Salary: Competitive DOE

Hours: 37.5 hours a week

We have an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Assistant Management Accountant to join our client, a leader in the fashion and retail space, joining the Accounts team at the Head Office in Carlisle.

Key accountabilities:

• Assist with the production of monthly management accounts, within the agreed timetable, with responsibility for specified cost lines in the retail profit and loss accounts for each store


• Analyse variances to budget and prior years


• Provide support and answer queries on store accounts from store managers, area managers and the Retail and Finance Directors


• Produce information for and attend Finance Review meetings to review store performance. Take minutes of the meeting and follow up action points arising


• Prepare and post regular monthly journals


• Reconcile control accounts and post any correcting journals required


• Assist with the production of budgets and forecasts for specified cost lines


• Ad hoc duties as required

Key skills:

• An aptitude for working with different software packages, including spreadsheets, database applications and specialised budget packages


• The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines


• The ability to work as part of a team


• Effective time management and organisational skills


• Strong analytical skills

Experience Required:

• Part qualified accountant would be preferable.


• Educated to GCSE level at a minimum, ideally A Level educated.


• Experience in finance or ambitions to get in to the financial sector.


• Ambitious


• Enthusiastic


• Takes ownership


• Ability to challenge


• Focusses on detail


• Takes initiative


• Solves problems

Please submit your career details to�Andrew Bridges�at�PDA SEARCH & SELECTION LIMITED.