Management Accountant; FTC

Position: Management Accountant (1 year FTC)
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) are educational charities and the leading professional bodies in the UK for tax advisers and tax technicians dealing with all aspects of taxation.

If successful, you will be joining a dedicated team of staff and volunteers who ensure that we continue to meet our primary purpose of promoting education in taxation. Our key aim is to achieve a more efficient and less complex tax system for all, and you will see from our annual reports that we do this through a wide range of activities.

The Management Accountant is a key member of the finance team, reporting directly to the Finance Business Partner and working closely with the Finance Manager (FM). This role is responsible for assisting in the preparation of the monthly management accounts, including the preparation and posting of journals, balance sheet reconciliation and supporting with initial review of monthly variances as directed by the FBC.

The Management Accountant ensures timely, accurate, and relevant financial information is delivered to management, supporting decision-making and business planning.

Key Responsibilities:

* Preparing and posting all journals for month end for ATT and CIOT completed by working day 7 including accruals, prepayments, investments, overheads recharges and intercompany recharges, payroll, credit card returns, accrued and deferred income.

* Importing transactions from the operational system (CRM) to the finance system (BC) on a daily basis, and Journaling corrections as required.

* Updating rolling forecast and payroll master sheet

* Assist the FBP in quarterly forecast and annual budgets by prepopulating departmental templates with actuals YTD, previous year/forecast and budget figures

* Assist the FBP with initial review of the monthly management accounts, providing statements from the accounts as requested and journaling corrections as directed.

* Support the FBP with budget holder queries, providing detail behind balances,

* Prepare all monthly balance sheet reconciliations for both entities including Fixed Assets, prepayments, sales and purchase control, accruals and investments, credit card, payroll and deferred income.

* Provide initial commentary on the balance sheet reconciliation movements for review by FM

* Support with Interim and annual audit, providing schedules, summaries and supporting documents as requested by FM/FBC

* Support the preparation of the Tax Disciplinary Bord Management Accounts as directed by the FM

* Cash flow forecast and updating of the forecast with actuals and analysis on the variance.

* Monthly uploading direct debits for membership collections.

Person Specification:

* AAT Finalist, CIMA/ACCA or similar.

* Must be confident with standard excel formulas, VLOOKUP, SUMIF(S), CONCAT as well as sort/filter and conditional formatting and pivot tables

* Full understanding of double entry accounting, General ledger, control accounts, Debit/Credit posting.

* Strong self-organisation needed to meet tight deadline requirement