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Activate Group Limited Assistant Management Accountant in Remote, United Kingdom

Job title: Assistant Management Accountant - Activate Accident Repair

Department: Finance

Location: Home based with monthly travel to Halifax or Warrington.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Competitive

We're looking for a Assistant Management Accountant to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain's fastest-growing private companies.

**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

Supporting the finance manager with month end duties including the production of management accounts, as well as managing a team of 2 Finance Assistants.

Key responsibilities

  • Assist the finance manager with month end duties, including the production of management accounts

  • Producing and processing journals, including accruals and prepayments

  • Assisting with intercompany reconciliations

  • Balance sheet reconciliations

  • Collecting and recording financial information

  • Line manage a team of 2 finance assistants

  • Accurate processing and reviewing of a high volume of supplier invoices within payment terms

  • Accurately reconciling supplier statements

  • Investigating supplier queries

  • Chasing supplier invoices and credit notes timely and effectively

  • Assisting the finance team with customer enquiries

  • Assisting with supplier payment runs

  • General Administration duties

  • Answering phone calls and dealing with enquiries effectively

Skills and experience

  • Experience of assisting with the production of management accounts

  • AAT Qualified or Part Qualified CIMA/ACCA

  • Excellent customer service skills

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Ability to manage own time and workload

  • Maths and English GCSE at grade C/4 or above

Benefits

  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)

  • Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups

  • Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay

  • Life assurance: three times basic salary

  • Free breakfasts and fruit

  • Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we'll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it's like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

  • Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.

  • Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.

  • Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.

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