Management Accountant

The opportunity

Aspects Beauty Company are looking for a Management Accountant to join the business on a full time permanent basis.

We are a successful family-run company with a commitment to finding innovative, intelligent and creative ways to market. We work with retailers across the UK, build luxury brands and adopt a flexible and open-minded approach to all our partnerships. Our unique culture ensures our valued employees are at the heart of our business, where we encourage a strong sense of community, team spirit and pride in everything we do.

We work passionately towards achieving our goals and growing our brands. Each team member brings their own personal and professional skills, ideas and experiences, allowing us to do things a little differently, flourish together and always enjoy what we do.

• Full support for the Group Financial Controller (GFC) on all financial matters relating to Aspects Beauty Company Limited
• To include the production of management accounts & year end accounts with all relevant schedules & backup, budgeting, forecasts, sales analysis and various ad-hoc financial tasks
• Working to tight deadlines for the production of the accounts and developing systems to reduce these deadlines utilising our ERP system and other appropriate systems and software
• Day to day management of the finance function of the company in the future

• Production of accounts to a set deadline including prepayments, accruals, stock reconciliations & cost of goods control, fixed asset register & depreciation, balance sheet reconciliations. P&L to include full P&Ls by Brand and other reporting required by the Brand Owner

• As per management accounts but includes all schedules in readiness for audit
• Liaising with auditors during the annual audit & providing any further requested analysis

• Production of annual budgets
• Production of ad-hoc budgets
• Budgets to be phased accurately by month

• VAT returns
• Payroll checking
• National statistics
• Supervision of finance team

• A highly competitive salary
• Hours of work – 37.5 hrs per week (8.30am – 5.30pm Monday to Thursday / 8:30am to 2.30pm on a Friday)
• Hybrid working policy, working 2/3 days in office and remainder in the field or at home
• Potential travel within UK and EU to attend meetings/conferences, etc, as appropriate
• Car allowance
• 25 days holiday per annum, increasing by a day per year up to a maximum of 30 days
• Product allocation (After qualifying period)
• Death in service scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Group Income protection
• Broadband allowance
• Free on-site parking

• CIMA / ACCA Qualified
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a management accountant role

• Microsoft Office – with proficiency in Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint. Excel must be at advanced level with the ability to create and use pivot tables, data extraction, VLookups etc
• Produce Management Accounts on a monthly basis to deadlines including P&L, Balance Sheet & Cashflow
• Produce Year End accounts for audit
• Produce annual budgets / revisions
• Cashflow forecasting
• VAT Returns, UK & Eire
• Developing systems to enhance and accelerate the production of accounts, using tools such as Power Bi
• People management. Ability to manage a small team & maintain a good team ethic