Group Management Accountant
Chester
Hybrid working after probation – minimum 3 days per week in the office
Flexible hours (between 8:00am and 6:00pm), 37.5 hours per week
Salary: 45k DOE
At Proximo, the UK’s leading provider of specialist and adapted replacement vehicles, we are dedicated to keeping people on the move. When vehicles are out of action, we step in to provide replacements, ensuring our customers maintain their independence and mobility.
We’re looking for a motivated Group Management Accountant to join our finance team in Chester. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong technical accounting experience who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and wants to play a key role in supporting and developing a growing finance function.
The successful candidate will support our Finance Manager in delivering accurate and timely financial reporting, while also helping to manage and develop junior members of the finance team. This role would suit someone who enjoys improving processes, building strong working relationships, and contributing to wider business success.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll play a key role in supporting the finance function across the business, with responsibilities including:
- Control the day-to-day operations of the finance department, ensuring deadlines are met and strong financial controls are maintained.
- Review and ensure accurate monthly management accounts within agreed deadlines.
- Analyse financial performance, providing commentary, insights, and recommendations to support business decision-making.
- Assist with the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
- Oversee and control cash flow reporting and treasury management.
- Maintain overall control of creditors, debtors, and payment processes.
- Review payment runs, challenging where appropriate.
- Review and submit VAT returns, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation.
- Support the annual audit process.
- Prepare key financial statements and supporting schedules for the annual statutory accounts. Assist in annual CSR and other reports.
- Control and review the fixed asset register and hire purchase/lease registers.
- Monitor cost centre performance, leading cost centre review meetings, and reporting findings to management.
- Review payroll at a high level, identifying trends and ensuring compliance with tax and statutory requirements.
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve financial policies, procedures and internal controls.
- Identify and mitigate financial risks, implementing appropriate controls.
- Lead, motivate and develop the finance team through effective delegation, regular one-to-one meetings, and performance reviews.
- Build strong working relationships with internal departments, senior management, and external stakeholders.
- Drive continuous improvement across finance processes, systems, and reporting.
We’re Looking for Someone Who has/is:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or Qualified by Experience (QBE).
- Minimum of six years' experience within a finance function.
- At least two years' experience in a management or supervisory finance role.
- Experience preparing management accounts and supporting budgeting and forecasting.
- Strong understanding of VAT, tax, and financial compliance.
- Experience of managing and controlling the year-end / month end process.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience with finance systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to prioritise workloads and meet deadlines.
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
What We Offer
We’re an Investors in People Silver employer, and we invest in our people with the right tools, support, and training to help you do your best work.
Our benefits include:
- 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off
- Hybrid working after probation
- Medicash healthcare plan, including optical, dental, physiotherapy, and more
- Events throughout the year, including an end-of-year party
- Funding for qualifications and apprenticeship schemes
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Pension contributions of 5% from you and 5% from us
- £1,000 employee referral bonus
- Monthly wellbeing hour
- Tech scheme and retail cashback scheme
- Service reward scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Casual dress code
We’d love to hear from you. Apply with your latest CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch.
Before You Go…
For Proximo, having a friendly, diverse, and inclusive atmosphere is crucial to achieving our best-in-class goal. When everyone feels free to be their best selves at work, Proximo thrives. We want our employee base to reflect the diversity of our customer base. While we strive to maintain a culture where employees feel appreciated and valued for their individual potential, we celebrate diversity. Our dedication to diversity is authentic, continuously developing, and driven from the top down.
Proximo takes great pride in being open to everyone. No matter your gender, sexual orientation, disability, race, marital status, ethnicity, religion, or social background, we encourage you to apply.
We support flexible working and welcome conversations around flexibility in hours, location, or ways of working. We also want to ensure you receive the support you need throughout the recruitment process, so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application.
