Senior Management Accountant in Edinburgh

Michael Page Recruitment is delighted to partner with our client to recruit a newly-created Senior Management Accountant role. This is a fantastic opportunity for an for an experienced, enthusiastic, self-motivated management accountant who has a keen interest in supporting and developing a finance team and supporting on internal projects to improve efficiencies within the high-performing finance department.

• Senior Management Accountant
• Market Leading Hospitality Group - Edinburgh

The successful candidate will likely have the following responsibilities:

• Preparation and review of management accounts for several of the venues, analysing the financial performance and providing meaningful commentary.
• Supporting finance team with queries from suppliers
• Supporting finance team with finance related queries from operational team and venue management, ensuring end of week variances are fully investigated, followed up on and reported to relevant parties.
• Preparation, review and submission of quarterly VAT returns for the estate
• Responsible for the accounting preparation, VAT submission and year end accounts for smaller connected business entities
• Processing, monitoring and reporting on head office expense management system
• Supporting energy consumption agenda
• Working closely with operational team and venue management to ensure financial data is accurate and aligned with the business objectives
• Assisting with the production of statutory year end accounts and liaising with external auditors during year end audit
• Supervision and development of the finance team
• Supporting financial controller and finance director with ad hoc projects

The successful candidate will likely have the following profile:

• Experience of line managing a small finance team and willingness to be hands on, flexible and adaptable
• Analytical and problem solver - ability to recognise problems, investigate source of problem and propose a solution to fix or improve the issue
• Ability to build rapport and effective working relationships with individuals at all levels within the company
• Willingness to utilise AI tools that are aligned with the company AI policy