Management Accountant

Hybrid - 2 days a week in the Cardiff office

About us

Confused.com is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services. Our mission is simple: take away the confusion when comparing financial products and services to help you save time and money.

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands (including Uswitch, Tempcover and Money.co.uk) that empowers people to make confident decisions across a range of household services.

About the role

We are looking for a Management Accountant to join us here at Confused.com. Reporting into the Financial Controller, this role is ideal for a newly qualified accountant who has been working in accounting whilst training and wants to take the next step in their career. If you've got strong analytical skills, stakeholder management and the ability to multitask and prioritise, you’ll be a great candidate to join this exciting role in our busy finance team!

What you’ll be doing:

• Preparing production of monthly management accounts
• Timely ledger posting of month end journals 
• Cash flow preparation and analysis
• Completing balance sheet reconciliations
• Assist with the preparation for the annual external audit
• Preparation of VAT and regulatory returns
• Opportunity to cover in other areas (AR; AP) 

What you’ll bring to the role:

• CIMA/ACCA qualified or equivalent
• Experience preparing monthly management accounts
• Experience with VAT returns
• Strong Excel skills (use of pivot tables and vlookups a minimum)
• Comfortable working closely with multiple stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail with good analytical skills
• Team player with good interpersonal skills

You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from applying. There are plenty of opportunities to learn with us!

Benefits

We want to give you a great work environment. We want to contribute to both your personal and professional development, and give you great benefits to make your time at Confused.com even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:

• A competitive salary and bonus package
• Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
• Hybrid working, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Annual leave of 25 days (excluding bank holidays) which will increase with length of service (up to a maximum of 30 days) and additional leave options
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Simply Health Scheme and access to the Calm app.
• Regular events - company-wide events with insightful external speakers as we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected
• A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
• Private medical scheme
  

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