Management Accountant

Sewell Wallis are working with a growing business in Wakefield to recruit an experienced Management Accountant on a fixed-term contract basis to cover maternity leave. 

The contract is expected to last 6 months and has some potential to extend, and involves managing parts of transactional finance, assisting the financial controller with aspects of the management accounts and partnering with the operational teams. 

They don't necessarily need someone with business partnering experience, but they do need someone who has experience of the accruals, prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations and journals side of management accounting, who is confident and comfortable with communicating with internal and external teams. 

It's a great opportunity for someone who plans to go down the commercial finance route in the future!

What will you be doing?

• Sales ledger and purchase ledger management. 
• VAT returns.
• Accruals and prepayments. 
• Journals.
• Balance sheet reconciliations.
• Stock accounting. 
• Chasing debt as a when required. 
• Assisting the FC with further management accountant duties when required. 

What skills are we looking for?

• QBE or working towards your CIMA, ACCA or ACA.
• Exposure of accruals, prepayments, journals and balance sheet reconciliations. 
• Previous stock accounting and WIP experience is ideal.
• Experience working within a fast-paced sector. 
• Immediately available and able to commit to the fixed-term contract. 

What's on offer?

• Free parking on site.
• Flexibility with start/ finish times.
• The opportunity for someone to gain commercial finance exposure. 

Send us your CV below or contact Chloe Wilford for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.