This job would suit either someone moving out of a small practice and looking for their first move into Commerce or an experienced Company Accountant/ Finance Manager who has been doing a varied accounts job in an SME business.

The business is an extremely well established organisation that is very protected from the issues happening in the economy and hence this role offers stability and protection from the many businesses threatening redundancy. The business is made up of c.14 smaller entities including a property business of c.125 rental properties. This determines that a good eye for detail is needed in this role to ensure each enterprise is accurately accounted for.

The successful candidate will have a good understanding of Balance sheet, P&Ls, VAT, monthly and annual accounting. The role does offer the chance to develop the management accounts/ information across the business so good management accounting knowledge would be useful. This experience can have been gained either in a small practice looking after a portfolio of SME businesses or in an SME business running the whole accounts ‘function’.

Key duties will include:

• In conjunction with function budget holders, prepare budgets and forecasts for income, management and administration expenditure.
• Ensure that monthly and quarterly management accounts are prepared for each enterprise and certain key entities as a whole, showing actuals against agreed or revised budgets.
• Continue to develop a cost allocation method for overhead recharges and ensure communicated to personnel involved at relevant enterprises.
• Perform key account reconciliations, to include bank, petty cash, wages and recharges
• Preparation of statutory year end accounts for 2 separate entities covering primarily rental income and farm arable and livestock
• Prepare for year end external audits for 3 of the larger entities.
• Produce simple Income and Expenditure excel accounts for partners of some of the smaller entities.
• Undertake the role of the Purchase Ledger to ensure all day to day accounting tasks are carried     out in an accurate and timely manner
• Undertake the role of Sales Ledger
• Process, review and BACS month wages
• VAT
• Manage the pension contributions for both employer and employee ensuring correct paperwork is signed by staff joining the scheme
• Develop and implement reporting systems to facilitate production of management and statutory information.
• Maintain regular contact with auditors, bank and other advisers as appropriate
• Ensure that all procurement, contracting and other work is delivered in the most cost effective manner.
• Ensure that the works undertaken complies at all times with all relevant legislation, statutory codes and guidance including energy performance certificates etc.

This prestigious and very professional business are offering a varied accounting role in a recession-proof environment for an individual with a good eye for detail, strong technical understanding and positive communication skills.

For more information about this role or any other Finance Manager job in Aylesbury, please contact me in confidence.

Every application will receive a response as this is the recognised working practice at MRK Associates.

This job would suit an immediately available ACCA or CIMA studier or qualified by experience accountant who is looking for an interesting role to see them through the Summer when the job market traditionally becomes strong – September/October.
The job is to start on Monday 21st May.

The company is extremely well regarded in its marketplace offering a first class and very slick service to its customers. With over a million goods dealt with each week, this business is at the forefront of efficiency and organisation.

Duties will mainly focus on:

• Group consolidations of 3 sets of accounts,
• Monthly group financial reporting
• Overhead reporting
• Weekly Flash Reporting
• KPI reports

This role will cover an immediate need for accurate financial reporting but the long term permanent role will add other duties of a more analytical nature as outlined below:

• Provide ‘central analyst’ support to  Central Departments  including :
• monitoring of weekly central Department costs by exception
• production of  formal monthly Central Department reports and analysis work to support central review meetings
• information provision and  analysis to Central Department Directors as required
• assist in the annual budget-setting process and the quarterly update of business forecasts for central departments
• lead on central Department journals in monthly accounts
• Provide analyst support for the production and associated related-analysis work relating to month-end reports (e.g. Business Monthly Financial Pack and Scorecard).
• Produce the monthly plus quarterly reports and associated submissions for the UK as part of European level reporting.

For more information about this role or any other financial reporting jobs in Hemel Hempstead, please contact me in confidence.

This job would suit an individual who has worked/ trained in Finance reporting under Dutch GAAP and who is now based in the UK looking to use this specialist knowledge in the European HQ of large corporate business. Fluent Dutch would also be highly advantageous. The job is responsible principally for the Netherlands entity ensuring statutory compliance and management accounting are completed on a timely and accurate basis.

The company has recently restructured it’s legal entities (and therefore its finance reporting) which has created the need for this role within the European operations.  A far reaching business that has concentrated hard on streamlining its business model during the recession, they are now reporting increasing profitability on lower sales, through successful cost reduction plans and improved margin performance. Many business would like to say they are in as good a position as this one!

The successful individual will be fluent in Dutch, have strong Dutch GAAP experience and generally strong technical accounting and reporting skills. The role will work in a team of 4 so wanting to be part of a team is crucial in this job. With a reasonably sized team in place, future progression can be expected if the short term goals are met in this initial position.

Duties will include:

• Preparation, analysis and review of all financial reporting - monthly / quarterly / annual corporate (US GAAP)
• Complete month end procedures incorporating reconciliation of balance sheet accounts
• Assist in the completion of management information to the business
• Liaise with the European head quarters team on month end queries
• Assist in the reporting of US GAAP results
• Ensuring SOX compliance
• Accruals calculations
• Balance Sheet and Inter-company Reconciliations
• VAT Returns, payments and Reconciliations
• Ad-hoc work project work

This is job in a fantastic global player that believe in service and delivery. If you have the necessary skills in Dutch GAAP, please don’t delay in applying to this role.

For more information about this role or any other financial accountant jobs in Aylesbury, please contact me in confidence.

Every application will receive a response as this is the recognised working practice at MRK Associates.

This job would suit a hands on qualified by experience (QBE) or stop-studier who is looking for an interesting and varied accounts role in an expanding business. This role has responsibility for directing and coordinating all financial activities within the UK Business Unit and assisting the CFO (who is based overseas) on all Group financial activity as directed.

The company offers niche but highly regarded services both in the UK and overseas and hence has operations in various key countries. The company is expanding in all its regions and has developed a 1st class reputation in its key business areas. This has resulted in some significant large employers in their list of clients and there are no signs of a slow down. As a result, the need has materialised for this role to control the UK finances as well as helping with other key issues in Group finance, e.g. Costing projects in different locations.

The successful individual will have experience of both management and financial accounts and will be happy overlooking a finance administrator who is responsible for the basic transactions work amongst other admin duties around the UK operation. Some experience of developing the management accounting and reporting would be ideal but the key requirement is to be able to fit into a small and friendly team and have the previous experience of running the finances of a department/ business.

Duties will include:

• Maintain full set of accounts
• Preparation of monthly financial and management reports ( Balance sheets, P&L, Cash flow statement, capital expenditure, simulator utilisation, etc)
• Weekly cash forecasts
• Prepare and maintain balance sheet schedules including monthly bank reconciliations, inter-company balances.
• Prepare submits and maintain all documentation relating to VAT returns
• Prepare financial and/or regulatory reports required by law, regulations, or boards of directors.
• Financial and variance analysis
• Continuous review and improvement of systems and procedures with the key objective of minimising risks
• Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities
• Liaison with external auditors, bankers and other stakeholders
• Preparation of annual budget and monthly rolling forecasts
• Keep abreast of changes in financial regulations and legislation

This is the perfect role for a hands-on small company accountant/ financial controller who wants to be responsible for the full accounting function of an growing small business.

For more information about this role, please contact me in confidence.

Every application will receive a response as this is the recognised working practice at MRK Associates.

This Credit Manager job could be recruited on either an interim, contract or permanent basis depending on the requirements and fit of the successful individual.

Currently there are a significant number of credit controllers in various divisions across the business and this person’s main responsibility will be to overlook every aspect of the credit remit and streamline this into one function that has strong disciplines in place run with less people and more efficient processes.

The successful individual will be an experienced Credit Manager with a range of skills from the standard man management and monthly reporting through to dealing with legal issues and driving through process change. One of the main experiences that will differentiate the successful applicant will be the ability to minimise how often the legal team is called into action by taking the responsibility on themselves to look at contracts or deal with difficult debt situations. ICM Qualification would be advantageous but not essential if a strong track record can be illustrated.

Duties will include:

• Enforcing operational excellence and propose changes for process improvements.
• Development of an efficient and motivated credit function with succession planning in place.
• Strong emphasis on building robust commercial credit risk processes to improve the credibility of the function.
• Producing and publishing debt recovery plans and reports
• Cash flow forecasting,
• New account authorisations and credit limit reviews
• Managing the invoicing function
• Liaising with clients with a view to reducing payment delays
• Interfacing with clients and developing relationship management
• Exposure management, risk mitigation & reporting for the credit function (including strategic customers and highlighting issues before they occur)
• Observe critical market developments across the client base and highlight the potential risk to the management team

This is a role that can be viewed as a developing permanent position to put your own stamp on the role and the team or an interim/contract role to set up the infrastructure and processes of an efficient credit function before moving on to your next challenge.

For more information about this role or any other credit manager jobs, please contact me in confidence.

Every application will receive a response as this is the recognised working practice at MRK Associates.

This job would suit a recently Qualified ACCA or CIMA from a fast moving, product related industry or a TOP 4 ACA looking to make their first move into Commerce. The role will be responsible for enabling the UK & Ireland business to deliver profitable sales through financial analysis and the provision of clarity around the key profit drivers. This person will be the ‘go to’ figure in finance to ensure operation management in key areas of the business understand what is happening.

The business is a global leader and has had huge success in international markets over recent years. Employing over 100,000 globally, the company recruits only the very best talent and has a succession planning and career development scheme that is second to none ensuring internal promotion and new opportunities are offered to those wanting to progress. With continued expansion in the business plan and an ambitious CEO, the company wants to double the size of what is already a huge business in the future.

The successful individual, above all, must be a high achiever with the desire and self-motivation to drive their career forward. This is a fast paced environment and the role is one of influence and expertise so anything other than a confident, strong communicator will not succeed. The role will suit an ACCA or CIMA qualified commercial analyst who has worked in fast paced, product related industries such as Retail or FMCG. Alternatively, a TOP 4 ACA looking to move into a global corporate environment will find this job and company extremely rewarding.

Duties will include:

• Be a credible business partner to the heads of functions in the UK to control costs and influence decision making.
• Partner with Property teams and input and advise on investment decisions through effective analysis and interrogation of data.
• Be an expert on the Stores Capital investment model.
• Lead a London focus project to identify potential new business opportunities in the region.
• Lead the development of the European Finance Graduate program.
• Assist with the forecasting of key profit drivers and costs for the UK & Irish business.
• Support the Collation and reporting on the UK and Irish Income statements.
• Engage and influence the wider Commercial Finance Team to devise appropriate schedules and analysis tools.
• Review, critique and bring financial rigour to business cases for merchandising initiatives
• Establish a Market Share report for the UK&I business to help identify areas of success and opportunities for additional profitable sales.
• Identify and continue to develop key performance indicators to ensure the business is focused on the critical issues
• Partner with the Managers of Commercial Finance and Commercial Finance Managers as appropriate to establish sales forecasts.
• Provide modelling expertise and support to the UK and Ireland budget
• Respond to ad-hoc requests for information in a timely manner, as necessary

This is an exceptional job in an exceptional company and only qualified accountants at the absolute top of their peer group should apply. Do you feel you have what it takes to work in a high-flying, fast paced commercial environment?

For more information about this role or any other Commercial Analyst jobs in Retail, please contact me in confidence.

Every application will receive a response as this is the recognised working practice at MRK Associates.

This job would suit an experienced Customer Service executive who is genuinely passionate about providing a high level of service to all customers. The main purpose of the role is to answer incoming telephone calls and process all sales orders quickly and  accurately using SAP. You will also have responsibility for supporting the sales force with any queries and requests.

Detailed duties include:

• Build strong customer relationships with internal and external customers
• Actively solve customer problems
• Understand the logistic requirements of the customer in terms of delivery and procurement
• Process customer orders
• Deal with any order queries and problems
• Organise customer credit and returns
• Sorting and posting of invoices

It is essential that you have had a minimum of 2 years Customer Service experience within an office environment that is busy and fast paced. It would be advantageous if you have used SAP in the past.

Working within a small team, your role will be varied. You will already have plenty of experience working within an office based Customer service environment and will be comfortable dealing with queries as well as producing and following up quotations.

Daily duties will include:

• Continual contact with customers either by phone or email
• Managing customer enquires from initial request through to quotation stage to job completion.
• Continual updating of in house customer service system & ensure accuracy is adhered to.
• To raise job packs and files and mark on job board.
• To liaise with other departments to ensure accurate job timing and scheduling of work appropriate to the customers needs.
• Production of quotes to include costings and calculations where necessary.  Production of reports for job completion in accordance with customer requirement.
• To ensure completed jobs are forwarded for pricing and invoicing procedure.
• Responding to customer queries/complaints and escalate to appropriate level if required.
• Management of own filing systems and archiving & organising and managing quote follow up and chasing.
• To develop sale and customer service skills.

You will be self motivated and able to handle your own workload. You will have superb communication skills and have the ability to problem solve and think outside of the box when necessary.

It is working for a very exciting organization, who have already established a reputation for being forward-thinking, setting exceptionally high service standards and consistently breaking new ground in all the markets in which they operate.

The Telesales / Int. Account Manager will work as a key member of the new business sales team, selling services and products to a range of vertical markets. The role of Telesales Account Manager will include cold calling and account development working to achieve monthly, quarterly and annual sales targets.

The main objective is to positively contribute to the expansion of the  business in key target markets. Increase sales volume, mix and quality of business produced to exceed targets as well as building relationships with new customers.

Duties will include:

• Acquire new customers
• Cold Calling
• Quotations
• Developing new markets
• Order processing
• Gather market information

You will be a self-motivated and ambitious individual with a proven record of exceptional sales ability and excellent negotiation and communication skills. Any reseller experience or knowledge of Technology or IT products will be advantageous.

 Essential skills required:

• Proven track record for new business development
• Excellent customer handling skills
• Excellent phone manner
• Highly proficient computer skills including Ms Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Flexible and adaptable, able to work and respond well under pressure
• Ability to work without supervision
• Negotiation skills developed through sales or marketing experience
• Good analytical and investigative skills
• Good attention to detail

This job will suit a Qualified Accountant with strong management accounting experience to be responsible for the production of the monthly  management pack for a division of the organisation.

The organisation is over 100 years old and has nearly 500 projects running at any one time across the UK. Their vision is to have the same type of impact across the world and aim to genuinely make a difference to people’s lives.
They are looking to develop their commercial finance and management accounting function in order to drive the impact that the department has across its business.

The successful individual will be a CIMA or ACCA finalist or recently qualified accountant with strong management accounting/ budgets/ forecasts/ variance analysis skills. The individual will be someone who cares about the service that the organisation offers and wants to help build this offering through the impact they will have on their job.

Duties will include:

• Review automated invoicing to ensure income is correct
• Review cost centre actuals (revenue & expenditure) and transfer erroneous postings
• Accrue/Defer revenue as required
• Sundry journals as requested
• General accruals/prepayments as required
• Prepare, post and review year end accruals
• Provide guidance/training to each division with regards forecasting on the systems
• Review submitted forecasts and raise queries as required
• Consolidate data and analyse for central reporting on a monthly basis ie: waterfall reports
• In conjunction with Operational teams, provide reporting pack with financials and commentary highlighting areas of risk/opportunity and present to Strategic Accountant on a monthly basis
• Assist in budget process as necessary, ie systems guidance
• Oversee budget process for divisions and submission to centre.
• Provide guidance and discuss financials with Operational teams
• Present financials where required
• Oversee BMU cost centre, and forecast/budget as necessary.
• Involvement in aged debt review/analysis
• Submission of ad hoc central reports, ie: non-financial drivers
• Perform adhoc duties as required

This role will offer someone at the end of their studies the chance to work with management across the business, work with the Head of the Commercial Finance team closely and drive their own role forward. Perfect for someone with good management accounting experience to push their career on now their studies are out of the way (or nearly out of the way!)

For more information about this Management Accountant job or any other jobs in Watford, please contact me in confidence.

Every application will receive a response as this is the recognised working practice at MRK Associates.