Accountant

Salary Competitive

Location Droitwich 170, Berry Hill Industrial Estate, Droitwich Spa, WR9 9AW

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The Vacancy

Accountant

Location: Droitwich Spa
Department: AKW Finance
Hours: Full Time
Work Pattern: Hybrid
Reporting to: Financial Controller

About the role

We are looking for an experienced and commercially aware Accountant to join the AKW Finance team.

This is a varied role with responsibility for ensuring the timely and accurate completion of monthly accounts and maintaining the integrity of financial ledgers. You will also provide valuable business partnering support to key stakeholders and work closely with colleagues across the Group Finance team to help achieve wider business objectives.

What you’ll be doing

As Accountant, your responsibilities will include:

Preparing accurate and timely management accounts and reports for review by the Senior Management Team.
Providing business partnering support to key stakeholders across the business.
Reconciling balance sheet accounts, including reviewing daily bank reconciliations and investigating and resolving discrepancies.
Reconciling key profit and loss accounts, including sales, cost of sales and stock movements.
Calculating accruals and prepayments.
Maintaining the fixed asset register, including leased assets.
Reviewing and authorising France and Belgium payroll calculations.
Managing payments, including payruns and salaries.
Calculating quarterly sales bonuses and agent commissions.
Ensuring compliance with statutory e-invoicing requirements.
Ensuring monthly VAT reporting is complete and accurate.
Managing and coordinating audit information throughout the year.
Reviewing customer invoice queries, NCRs/tickets and authorising credit notes.
Supporting finance and business process and system development, including system testing and training records.
Reviewing rebate accruals and calculations.
Supporting the Finance Team with projects and wider accounting activities as required.

You will also be expected to support the overall goals and culture of AKW Holdings Group and contribute positively to the Finance Department.

About you

We’re looking for a qualified accountant who combines strong technical accounting knowledge with excellent attention to detail and a proactive, commercial approach.

You will ideally have:

A recognised accountancy qualification such as ICAEW, ACCA or CIMA.
A minimum of 3–5 years’ accounting experience.
Strong experience producing management accounts to strict deadlines.
Extensive experience creating and manipulating Excel spreadsheets, including working with large volumes of data.
Experience working with foreign subsidiaries.
Experience dealing with auditors and preparing information for PBC requests.
Strong knowledge of accounting procedures and practices.
Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Excel, accounting software and a variety of business systems.
Strong commercial awareness.
Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage your workload effectively.
A high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

French language skills would be advantageous.

What will make you successful?

You’ll be a team player who is flexible, self-motivated and confident in your approach. You’ll be decisive, proactive and keen to learn and develop your skills.

We’re looking for someone who can communicate effectively, solve problems, adapt to changing priorities and work collaboratively with colleagues across the business.

Why join us?

This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative Finance team in a varied role where you can make a meaningful contribution to the wider business. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a broad range of accounting activities while developing your commercial and business partnering experience.

If you’re an experienced Accountant looking for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.

The Company

AKW Medi-Care Ltd is part of a group of businesses based in the UK, Isle of Man, France, and Belgium. We are the UK’s leading manufacturer of accessible bathrooms and kitchens for people with reduced mobility, enabling people to live more independently in their own homes. As an organisation with over 31 years’ experience, we are passionate about supporting independent living with superior quality products which are practical, future proof, beautifully designed and stylish, whilst improving overall quality of life.

We are very proud of our people and the great work that has been accomplished to help our organisation to grow and be successful. Many of our Directors and Senior Management team are long serving employees with over 20+ years of experience within the organisation. We are on a journey together, to build on the work that has been achieved and to continue to focus on career training and development because, most importantly, we want to ensure our people feel connected to their work, feel valued for their contribution, and feel motivated to continue to grow as part of our team.