Management Accountant

The salary for this role is £40,000 – £45,000.

Are you someone who prides themselves on exceptional attention to detail and accuracy?

Have you successfully managed payroll in a small to medium-sized organization?

Do you excel in extracting data from systems and spreadsheets to create insightful reports for analysis?

Would you like the opportunity to influence the future of the finance function?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.

As a Management Accountant at LI, you will be responsible for providing accurate financial information, conducting financial analysis enabling senior management in decision-making and reporting to internal and external stakeholders. This service will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and senior management to ensure the company's financial health and contribute to its overall success.

The day-to-day activities of this role will involve looking over the business’s accounts, invoices, working on payroll and accounts payables, giving the successful candidate a well-rounded accountancy exposure.

At LI Ltd, we have implemented the best cloud-based systems to enable and ease oversight and reporting across different functions, giving you the opportunity to work with systems implemented and integrated.

Your responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working in collaboration with LI’s People Services to deliver business payroll function, using LI payroll system Xero Payroll
• Ensuring timely and accurate submission of PAYE and pension contribution returns
• Responding to employee queries and payroll related issues in a timely manner
• Keeping up to date with changes, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations and legislation
• Preparation of VAT returns
• Month end bookkeeping including accruals, prepayments, depreciation journals etc
• Using the Xero bookkeeping system to analyse and report on business financial progress enabling senior management decision making
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Supporting month-end and year-end close process
• Liaising with auditors to ensure annual monitoring is carried out
• Performing other financial duties as assigned by management

You may be required to undertake other duties assigned by your line manager as appropriate

Requirements

We are looking for someone with:

• Proficient experience of using finance and payroll software i.e. Xero
• Experience of using MS Office Products
• Previous experience in delivering payroll for small/medium size business
• Strong knowledge and experience in bookkeeping and supporting non-finance colleagues
• Good database management skills with experience of drawing data from systems and excel to generate reports.
• Strong analytical skills to review and assess business financial needs
• Brilliant attention to detail
• Ability to pull data from various sources and present financial analysis allowing the team to review real-time financial insights
• Confidence in analysing key financial information to provide feedback to aid managerial planning and commercial decision making that will ensure future growth and value for money for LI Ltd. 

Qualifications

• Professional qualification such as AAT, CIPP, CIMA or similar is required.

Reporting structure

This role reports into the Finance Manager.

Benefits

As an LI employee, you will be entitled to our company benefits which include:

• A fully remote and flexible working set up
• 33 days annual leave, inclusive of Bank Holidays
• 4 x annual salary Life Assurance
• Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued

Application and Interview Process

To apply for this role, you will need to submit a CV and answer some pre-screening questions.

The interview and assessment process for this role will involve a telephone interview with our Talent Team, followed by a first stage and a final stage interview. Interviews will be conducted either remotely via MS Teams or face to face.

If we need to make a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, please contact us as soon as possible by emailing talent@livestockinformation.org.uk before the closing date to discuss your needs.

The closing date for this role is 4.00pm on Tuesday 27th May. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. Please note that we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Values

We approach our work with TACT