Assistant Management Accountant

As a Assistant Management Accountant you will support the R2R Manager and colleagues in the R2R team and provide support to the Greene King divisions. The role holder will be responsible and accountable for their contribution to the production of accurate and timely management accounts, and the integrity of all balance sheet accounting on behalf of the Pub Partners division. At the heart of the role's purpose is ensuring FSS teams achieve internal and external audit compliance and deliver excellent service to all stakeholders.

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

Your role as Assistant Management Accountant

• Perform month end accounting processes, ensuring the accuracy, integrity and completeness of financial information including a variance analysis.
• Calculating accruals, prepayment and recharges.
• Preparing cost analysis and presenting high-quality reports to help influence spending in the Divisions, including information and commentary to provide insights to enable the business to make effective strategic and operational decisions.
• Prepare meaningful balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring that all balances are supported and ensure that no un-actioned differences remain within any balance sheet control accounts for more than one quarter. Assisting in driving actions to correct processes and balances.
• Provide timely responses to queries received relating to month end processes and P&L numbers to Finance & Ops teams.
• Deliver excellent customer service to internal customers, ensuring that high quality financial information is provided to decision makers.
• Support the end-to-end review of processes by suggesting ideas for improvements that could benefit reconciliations through enhancing systems and processes including constantly review ways of working and processes for accuracy and efficiency.
• Support the external audit process and provide responses to any related queries to ensure the audit process is conducted smoothly and accurately.
• Maintain a detailed knowledge of source data, and the structure and use of financial information from core systems which feeds into the financial statements.
• Assist with any operational or accounting projects initiatives as required and carry out ad-hoc analysis to deliver key operational/management information to differing audiences to help support decision making.

What you’ll bring…

• Strong knowledge of month end accounting processes.
• Experience in calculating accruals, prepayment and recharges.
• Ability to prepare and present high-quality financial reports.
• Proficiency in preparing balance sheet reconciliations.
• Excellent customer service skills.