Job Title: Assistant Management Accountant

Location: Carlisle

Salary: Competitive DOE 

Hours: 37.5 hours a week

We have an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Assistant Management Accountant to join our client, a leader in the fashion and retail space, joining the Accounts team at the Head Office in Carlisle.

Key accountabilities:

• Assist with the production of monthly management accounts, within the agreed timetable, with responsibility for specified cost lines in the retail profit and loss accounts for each store
• Analyse variances to budget and prior years
• Provide support and answer queries on store accounts from store managers, area managers and the Retail and Finance Directors
• Produce information for and attend Finance Review meetings to review store performance. Take minutes of the meeting and follow up action points arising
• Prepare and post regular monthly journals
• Reconcile control accounts and post any correcting journals required
• Assist with the production of budgets and forecasts for specified cost lines
• Ad hoc duties as required

Key skills:

• An aptitude for working with different software packages, including spreadsheets, database applications and specialised budget packages
• The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• The ability to work as part of a team
• Effective time management and organisational skills
• Strong analytical skills

Experience Required:

• Part qualified accountant would be preferable.
• Educated to GCSE level at a minimum, ideally A Level educated.
• Experience in finance or ambitions to get in to the financial sector.
• Ambitious
• Enthusiastic
• Takes ownership
• Ability to challenge
• Focusses on detail
• Takes initiative
• Solves problems

Please submit your career details to Andrew Bridges at PDA SEARCH & SELECTION LIMITED.