Assistant management accountant

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