# Assistant Management Accountant

**Company**: Lush
**Location**: ., .
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Manufacturing

**Apply**: https://lush.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/57e89da5-b75a-4a1b-b3bc-99a78c19f784?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Diversity matters at Lush, where we're building a brand representing people worldwide. We celebrate individuality and want you to join us.

As an Assistant Management Accountant in our Finance team, you'll handle day-to-day finance tasks, prepare monthly management accounts, maintain accurate financial records, and ensure compliance with accounting standards.

Key Responsibilities:

- Perform weekly bank reconciliations to support effective cash forecasting

- Review weekly payment runs, including GBP and other currencies, with three-way checks against delivery notes, purchase orders, and invoices

- Manage control accounts, including prepayments and accruals postings, and ensure lead schedules reconcile to the trial balance

- Process intercompany sales and purchase invoices, ensuring correct prices are charged, and agree intercompany balances

- Review transactions to ensure costs are allocated to the correct nominal code

- Conduct cost of Goods analysis, review, and commentary, including quarterly stock provisions

- Maintain the Fixed Asset Register, post depreciation monthly, and review capex

- Prepare VAT returns, review and prepare quarterly returns, and perform VAT deferment reconciliation

- Support regular reporting for Manufacturing room Managers

- Participate in monthly stock checks and report findings

- Assist the Purchase Ledger team with queries and issue resolution

- Support year-end and audit with reviewing financial transactions

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise:

- 3+ years of experience in a finance role, working in a team, with a hands-on approach

- Understanding of basic accounting principles and double-entry processes

- Strong Excel, IT, and online banking skills, including Google Workspace and functions like VLOOKUPS and Pivot Tables

- Excellent communication skills and a friendly telephone manner

- 'Can-do' approach with the ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders

- Experience with systems like ERP Next, MayDay, Xero, Rydoo is advantageous

- Interest in Lush's ethics and willingness to learn and challenge existing processes

- Studying towards a finance qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, AAT) is desirable

Benefits:

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

- 6 months of full pay for parental leave

- Enhanced paternity leave

- Bonus scheme

- Day off for weekday birthdays

- Holiday purchase scheme

- 50% discount on Lush products and spa treatments

- Cycle to work scheme

- Discounted rail and bus season tickets

- Employee assistance programme

- Wellbeing & mindfulness sessions

- Access to employee-led Community Networks

## Skills

### Required
- accounting principles
- Excel
- Google Workspace
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- ERP Next
- MayDay
- Xero
- Rydoo
- CIMA
- ACCA
- ACA
- AAT

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