Divisional Management Accountant - Express
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About the role
DX are a market leading provider of a wide range of delivery services, including parcel freight, secure, courier and logistics services. We provide a wide range of specialist delivery services to both business and residential addresses across the UK and Ireland. We have three divisions, DX Freight, DX Express and DX Logistics. Our approach is straight-forward and no-nonsense. Our goal is to Deliver Exactly to our customers' requirements. Key to what we do at DX is our people and we are incredibly proud of the dedicated team we have built. At DX, we are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity for all irrespective of race, gender, disability, belief, sexual orientation, age or socio-economic background.
Responsibilities
- Analysing and understanding variance to budget and prior periods; highlighting any potential areas of concerns to the appropriate people
- Prepare the depots' management accounts so that the operational management team are able to properly assess the financial performance of that location, region or nationally
- Must be willing and able to visit the depots around the country and assist in training non-financial staff to better use and complete the existing reports
- Maintenance of the Weekly P&L and supporting files
- Completion of daily and weekly reporting such as revenue, cost and volumes
- Actively participate in the preparation of the Depot's budgets
- Preparation of monthly accruals and prepayment schedules
- Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Actively participate in various ad-hoc projects
- Measures:
- All KPIs and variances effectively reported within their region
- Adherence to Weekly timetable in production of the weekly P&L's
- Preparation of depot budgets and forecasts to agreed timetables
- No evidence of significant variances from budget not reported to Financial Controller on a timely basis
- Accuracy and consistency in delivering monthly management accounts
- Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Strong excel skills including working with large amounts of data.
- Ideally, minimum 1-2 years' experience in finance function; preferably studying for professional exams
- The candidate would ideally have experience of supporting non-finance individuals
- Used to working to and achieving tight deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
- Some experience of management accounts
- Financial systems experience desirable
- Driving licence
- Personal Specifications:
- Have strong analytical and organisational skills and a questioning approach
- Keen eye for detail
- Ability to not only create accurate reports but question and review the numbers and their impact
- Ability to continually review the reports produced by themselves and the team for their effectiveness within the business
- Tenacity to ensure timetables are met
- 'Quality in everything we do, get it right first time' attitude
- Strong communication skills are essential
- Be a team player with ability to follow procedures and guidelines to achieve successful team outcomes
- We look forward to hearing from you!
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An exciting new Divisional Management Accountant opportunity at DX!
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