Assistant Management Accountant

We are looking for an Assistant Management Accountant to join us in our head office in Leighton Buzzard. The main purpose of this role is to provide finance input to business decisions and to ensure that Divisional & Area Directors make their decisions based on accurate financial information and with finance support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and critical appraisal of branch results highlighting unexpected variances.
• Liaise with Divisional Managing Directors and Area Directors to help them understand and
• manage their cost base effectively.
• Create and process prepayments and accruals and reconcile the relevant balance sheet recs, ensuring all balances are justified.
• Calculate the commission payable to branch staff, ensuring accuracy of contractual details and liaising with all relevant parties to ensure figures are submitted to payroll before the set deadline. Calculate the monthly commission accruals for Estate Agency, Mortgage Services or Lettings field.
• Calculate the profit share accrual on a monthly basis and calculate the quarterly payments due to staff.
• Assisting with all weekly reporting requirements.
• Preparation of bank reconciliations.
• Preparation and submission of the National Statistic surveys.
• Intercompany Transactions
• Provide assistance to the business for the annual budget and pay review processes.

Required qualifications, experience and skills:

• Studying a professional qualification (AAT, CIMA, ACCA)
• Previous experience with month-end and multiple deadlines
• Intermediate Excel skills preferable (Presentation, V-Lookups, Pivot Tables, Data Analysis, Sumif(s) etc.)
• Has the ambition to progress beyond this role within the business

Connells Group is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK and as of March 2021 also encompasses Countrywide. Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,200 branches nationwide, the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise with a range of consumer and corporate services including new homes, mortgage services, conveyancing, EPC provision, surveying, corporate lettings, asset management, land & planning, LPA receivers and auctions.

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.