The Office Accountant sits within the Woodland subsidiary and is responsible for day-to-day financial control of the division's ledgers, cash and budgets. The role provides oversight of purchase, sales and nominal ledger processing, ensuring tax and audit compliance, owns short- and medium-term cash flow forecasting, and leads the subsidiaries budgeting and reforecasting cycle.
Working closely with the Directors, Senior Management, Group Finance and the transactional finance team, the Office Accountant ensures the ledgers are accurate and complete, cash is managed tightly and reported results are reliable.
Working Hours: Monday - Thursday 9-5pm & Friday 8-3pm
About The Role
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee purchase, sales and nominal ledger processing, ensuring transactions are recorded accurately, coded correctly and posted to agreed timetables.
- Supervise and support the transactional finance team, reviewing their output and acting as the escalation point for queries, exceptions and coding disputes.
- Control supplier and customer account integrity, ensuring statement reconciliations, aged creditor and debtor reviews, credit control support and resolution of unmatched items.
- Own the bank and cash function, including daily bank postings, reconciliations and company card controls are maintained.
- Prepare and maintain short-term (13-week) and medium-term cash flow forecasts, monitoring receipts, payment runs and committed spend against available facilities.
- Report on cash performance to the Directors and Group Finance Director, highlighting funding pressures, working capital movements and forecast variances.
- Lead the subsidiary annual budgeting process, building overhead, staff cost and capital expenditure budgets with input from department heads.
- Assist the Finance Department in preparing financial data for Board reporting
- Prepare and analyse monthly management accounts, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
- Collaborate with all departments across the business, providing financial support and information where necessary.
- Provide weekly update to management on financial KPIs
- Complete month-end close routines, including accruals, prepayments, journals, balance sheet reconciliations and control account clearance.
- Manage VAT returns and other statutory returns, ensuring compliance with Northern Ireland's dual VAT position for goods, including EC Sales Lists, Intrastat declarations where thresholds are exceeded, correct use of the XI VAT and EORI prefixes and postponed VAT accounting on imports.
- Control cross-border trade with the Republic of Ireland and further EU, including verification of customer and supplier VAT status, zero-rating evidence, customs documentation and reconciliation of GB-to-NI movements.
- Manage euro-denominated receipts, payments and bank accounts, including exchange rate policy, revaluation of foreign currency balances and reporting of exchange gains and losses.
- Maintain and improve financial controls, ledger processes and system usage, ensuring proper segregation of duties and a clear audit trail.
- Support the year-end audit, preparing ledger and control account schedules and responding to auditor queries.
Required Criteria
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Part or fully qualified accountant (AAT, ACCA, CIMA, ACA or Chartered Accountants Ireland) or qualified by experience in a comparable office accountant role.
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Proven experience of end-to-end ledger processing and month-end.
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Demonstrable experience of cash flow forecasting and of preparing and monitoring budgets.
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Experience of supervising or reviewing the work of transactional finance staff.
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Experience of ERP finance systems
- Working knowledge of UK VAT and of Northern Ireland's dual position for goods, including cross-border trade with the Republic of Ireland.
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Experience of multi-currency ledgers and sterling/euro transactions.
Desired Criteria
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Working experience with Epicor (ERP finance systems)
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Familiarity with the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) and, ideally, an understanding of Relevant Contracts Tax (RCT) for work undertaken in the Republic of Ireland.
Skills Needed
Regulatory Compliance, Attention to detail, Communication
About The Company
Founded by Brian McCloskey in 1987, Woodland has established itself as one of the leading manufacturers of kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture. Over the years, we have partnered with some of the UK's largest retailers to manufacture design-led bathroom furniture to appeal to their customer base.
Our contracts division also design and manufacture kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture for large-scale residential, student accommodation and hotel projects. From design through to installation, we meticulously manage our projects to seamlessly work in tandem with our contractors schedule.
- We have over 30 years experience in the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom industry.
- 141,000 sq ft manufacturing facility
- Considered one of the leading suppliers of both flat packed and rigid kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture
- We look after every step of the journey, from design, manufacture to installation
Company Culture
Excitement and passion for our craft drives us to manufacture superior quality furniture.
Creative design, workmanship and quality are the key ingredients to our philosophy at Woodland. We're always refining and improving our company, whether its new production techniques, design ideas - we never rest on our laurels.
We’re not complacent or stagnant. We’re a progressive business, consistently striving to excel on performance year after year with the support of our people.
As a family-run company, we have strong family values and care about the people we work with.
Our values are about nurturing our employee’s unique skill sets and rewarding them for their hard work. Many of our employees have progressed through our personal development plan to advance their careers at Woodland.
Company Benefits
Vacation, Paid time off, Retirement plan and/or pension, Employee development programs, Free parking, Open office, Competitive salary
Salary
Not disclosed
