Assistant Management Accountant
London
Full-time
Permanent employee
The Role's Purpose
This is an Assistant Management Accountant role working across the Plexal Group. The role combines transactional finance oversight, month-end accounting support, management reporting, forecasting inputs and financial analysis whilst helping to ensure accurate financial information, strong controls and effective decision-making across all business areas.
What You'll Do
- Process and code financial transactions accurately across relevant business areas, projects and departments.
- Support the month-end close process, including preparing journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Contribute to the production of monthly management accounts, reporting packs, performance analysis and supporting commentary.
- Investigate variances against budgets and forecasts, highlighting key findings and supporting follow-up actions.
- Support monthly invoicing cycles, purchase order management, supplier invoice processing and customer/supplier setup.
- Provide input into cash flow forecasting, budgeting and forecasting processes across the business.
- Support VAT returns, statutory reporting, audit preparation and compliance with financial control processes.
- Work with teams across the business to provide clear financial information and support effective budget management.
- Identify opportunities to improve finance processes, reporting accuracy and ways of working.
- May require business travel across Plexal sites and engagement with teams across the Group.
- Due to the nature of this position, our work, and our client engagements, you must be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance.
Your Skills
Essential
- Effective planning and prioritisation skills with the ability to keep track of multiple tasks and deliverables
- Analytical, with the ability to think critically and to understand, interpret and articulate complex reports, requirements, or recommendations
- Confident using Excel to manage, analyse and present financial data accurately, including working with formulas, lookups, pivot tables and reconciliations.
- Able to handle large datasets, identify variances or inconsistencies, and produce clear outputs
- Attention to detail to avoid/remove the risk of error, wherever possible, with a strong focus on quality.
Your Experience
Essential
- AAT or similar foundational qualification.
- Working towards ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification.
Essentials
- Experience with reconciliations and payment process.
- General accounting experience, eg. Issuing invoices, allocating payments
- Experience supporting month-end processes, including journals, accruals, prepayments and management reporting.
- Experience preparing balance sheet reconciliations and investigating variances or reconciling differences.
- Experience with supplier PO-to-pay compliance, invoice coding and supporting financial controls.
- Experience with Dynamics BC
- Experience with customer billing, project accounting or operational finance processes across a multi-service business.
Who You Are
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and operating in constantly changing environment
- Energised by the challenges and opportunities presented working for a high-growth company.
- Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with diverse stakeholder groups
- Team player and motivated self-starter who can take initiative with workload and tasks
- Demonstrates high levels of integrity and honesty.
Why us?
Plexal’s Values:
Mission: We inherit the mission of UK government and deliver it in an agile and creative fashion.
Collaboration: We believe in the power of working together.
Equality: We strengthen ourselves as a team by embracing the different.
Care: People are at the heart of what we do; we care about our customers, members and colleagues.
As a start-up, we thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment dedicated to empowering innovators. We embrace individuals who leverage technology and creativity to tackle our greatest challenges head-on. We strongly advocate for maintaining a harmonious work-life balance, our goal is to ensure every member of our team can authentically be themselves and live their best lives. We firmly believe that innovation and creativity flourish when we cultivate a diverse workforce, comprising highly skilled individuals with a wide range of perspectives to contribute.
In return we will offer you:
Mission: We inherit the mission of UK government and deliver it in an agile and creative fashion.
Collaboration: We believe in the power of working together.
Equality: We strengthen ourselves as a team by embracing the different.
Care: People are at the heart of what we do; we care about our customers, members and colleagues.
As a start-up, we thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment dedicated to empowering innovators. We embrace individuals who leverage technology and creativity to tackle our greatest challenges head-on. We strongly advocate for maintaining a harmonious work-life balance, our goal is to ensure every member of our team can authentically be themselves and live their best lives. We firmly believe that innovation and creativity flourish when we cultivate a diverse workforce, comprising highly skilled individuals with a wide range of perspectives to contribute.
In return we will offer you:
- Salary: £35,000 - £38,000 depending on skills and experience
- Annual bonus scheme
- A generous pension scheme (with a company contribution of up to 10%)
- Private healthcare, life assurance and critical illness cover
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Volunteering day
About us
Plexal is the innovation and growth company helping to strengthen the UK’s technology capabilities through collaboration.
With teams in London, Manchester and Cheltenham, we work closely with government, industry, startups and academia to drive economic growth and reinforce national security.
Founded by Delancey in 2017, Plexal delivers four core services: creating workspaces for innovators, running innovation programmes and consultancy, building regional tech clusters and helping SMEs scale strategically.
By closing the gap between early-stage and established organisations – across the public and private sectors at home and abroad – we’ve impacted over 1,200 businesses, added £731m to the UK economy and helped create 9,400 jobs.
Headquartered at Here East on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Plexal partners with organisations including the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the National Cyber Security Centre, Airbus, Amazon, Barclays Eagle Labs, Google Cloud, TfL, The Alan Turing Institute and the University of Oxford.
With teams in London, Manchester and Cheltenham, we work closely with government, industry, startups and academia to drive economic growth and reinforce national security.
Founded by Delancey in 2017, Plexal delivers four core services: creating workspaces for innovators, running innovation programmes and consultancy, building regional tech clusters and helping SMEs scale strategically.
By closing the gap between early-stage and established organisations – across the public and private sectors at home and abroad – we’ve impacted over 1,200 businesses, added £731m to the UK economy and helped create 9,400 jobs.
Headquartered at Here East on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Plexal partners with organisations including the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the National Cyber Security Centre, Airbus, Amazon, Barclays Eagle Labs, Google Cloud, TfL, The Alan Turing Institute and the University of Oxford.