Key Details
- Job Title – Junior Management Accountant
- Experience - Minimum 3 years of bookkeeping within a Finance team in a similar role
- Work Model - Hybrid (minimum of 3 days in the office p/w)
- Job Location – Must be able to reliably commute to Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, UK
About The Role
The opportunity has arisen for a Junior Management Accountant to join our small Finance team based in Maple Cross on a full-time, permanent basis. The role will report to our Group Finance Controller and support our Chief Finance Officer with day to day finance activities across our US and UK entities whilst delivering the highest level of service to internal and external stakeholders.
This is an intermediate-level position and would suit somebody who is interested in progressing a career in finance. Must be able to attend the office a minimum of 3 days per week..
Employee Benefits & Perks
- 25 Paid annual leave and 8 public holidays to support your work-life balance.
- Paid sick leave if you should fall ill.
- Group Life Assurance and Group Income Protection from first day of employment
- Private Health Insurance
- Pension plans to help you plan for your retirement.
- Getting you up to speed and contributing as quickly as possible with a comprehensive induction
- Access to funded training to support your career development
- A genuine chance to grow your career with Freespace through access to internal job opportunities
- Chance to refer friends to Freespace and earn money through our Referral Programme
- Global employee recognition scheme which gives us the opportunity to recognize success.
- Chance to get involved in shaping our culture and affecting real positive change by joining one of our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
- A creative and engaging company culture right across the business.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Liaise with the internal Factory team and US and UK Account Managers and raise customer invoices for New Business and Renewals.
- Perform weekly reconciliation between HubSpot and Sales Reports to ensure all sales are invoiced.
- Complete monthly BeanBox reconciliations for both entities to validate forecasted renewals.
- Raise invoices for warranty costs and intercompany recharges between UK and other group companies.
- Calculate and process invoice for inter-company Management Fees.
- Monitor Accounts Receivable, proactively following up on overdue invoices and prepare month end analysis of aged debtors.
- Produce month-end billing reports for both entities.
- Prepare and process month-end journals and Balance Sheet Reconciliations for accrued income, depreciation, prepayments, warranty provisions, bad debt, and cost accruals and other balance sheet adjustments.
- Prepare workings for monthly installation accruals and calculate sales commission
- Maintain deferred income schedules for calculating accrued income and deferred cost for bundled contracts.
- Prepare monthly payroll report for US entity and reconcile cost to General Ledger.
- Produce group analysis for Advertising and Marketing cost.
- Review VAT coding to support accuracy of quarterly VAT returns.
- Prepare sales tax report and validate returns against payments.
- Liaise with US sales tax advisors to resolve outstanding queries.
- Prepare supporting schedules for annul US tax fillings and apply for Annual Tax Certificates.
- Assist in the implementation of Finance process improvements and drive efficiencies in the roll-out of new products and other business operations.
- Any other ad hoc accounting duties.
Qualifications and Experience
- Strong educational qualifications (particularly Maths and English)
- Part qualified Accountant (CIMA / ACCA / completed AAT Level 3 or equivalent)
- At least 3 years of bookkeeping within a Finance team in a similar role
- General understanding of VAT
- Proficient in the full suite of Microsoft Office programs, particularly Excel and Outlook
- Intermediate level experience in MS Excel with competency in pivot tables, sumif & vlookup formulas
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Experience using Xero accounting software and performing data analysis and reconciliations is preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Organised and able to multitask
- Good communication skills and able to work with a high degree of accuracy
- Discretion with confidential information
- Able to work in fast paced environment and coordinate with teams across the business
Behaviours and Mindset:
- Strong mathematical skills and numerically capable
- Smart and professional
- High personal standards
- Eager to learn with a desire to develop and progress a career in Finance and Accounting
- Team player; works well with others, and commits to achieving team goals and deadlines
- Able to take ownership of tasks and responsibilities
- Works with precision, a ‘can-do’ attitude and problem solver
- Naturally curious and proactive; willing to contribute ideas
- Reliable and punctual.
If you find yourself a suitable fit for the role, kindly apply through Indeed or you can share your profile to [email protected].
Freespace Overview
Our purpose is to organize the world’s workspaces to make them as hybrid-ready and efficient as possible. We operate in over 150+ cities globally, and our workplace solutions enable organizations to optimize their real estate, facilitate hybrid-working that engages employees, create safe and hygienic environments, inform office design and the drive to net zero.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £32,000.00-£36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Work from home
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Rickmansworth WD3 9YS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Please include details of your visa status if applicable and whether you will require sponsorship now or in the future.
- Please confirm your salary expectations in GBP.
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
