Mamas & Papas
Assistant Management Accountant (12 month FTC)
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Overview
Role Purpose
The Assistant Management Accountant will provide accurate, timely, and commercially focused finance support across the Wholesale business and Support Functions. Working as part of the Finance team, the role will support month-end activities, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, wholesale pricing, and margin analysis, ensuring stakeholders receive clear insight to support effective decision-making and strong financial control.
Role & Responsibilities
- Support the preparation of monthly management accounts, ensuring outputs are accurate, complete, and delivered in line with agreed deadlines.
- Assist with month-end close activities, including journals, accruals, reconciliations, and variance analysis as required for Wholesale Sales and Support Functions including IT, HR, and Amazon.
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and ad hoc financial reports, commentary, and performance insight to support business reviews and management decision-making.
- Support forecasting and budgeting processes by preparing analysis, validating assumptions, and highlighting key movements, risks, and opportunities.
- Maintain wholesale pricing information, including pricing validation, margin impact analysis, pricing books, and upload support.
- Work collaboratively with key stakeholders to resolve pricing, reporting, and data queries in a timely manner.
- Review and validate financial and operational data, investigating discrepancies and recommending corrective action where appropriate.
- Provide ad hoc analysis, reporting packs, and decision support to the Senior Finance Business Partner and wider Finance team.
- Contribute to process improvements that strengthen financial control, improve efficiency, and enhance the quality of reporting.
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Knowledge, Skills And Experience
- Studying towards, or qualified in, CIMA, ACCA, or an equivalent accounting qualification preferable.
- Experience in finance, accounting, commercial finance, or an analytical role.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including confidence working with large data sets and producing accurate analysis.
- Good understanding of management accounts, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Strong analytical skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to interpret financial information clearly.
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
- Ability to build positive working relationships across Finance and wider business teams.
Benefits
We're a business that cares. Here's just some of our benefits on offer:
- 33 days holiday, increasing up to 40 with service.
- Buy & Sell holiday schemes.
- Company Bonus Schemes.
- Employer pension contribution from day 1 enrolment.
- Significant staff discounts for family & friends from our shops & online.
- Ongoing offers & discounts across a variety of external organisations, from holidays, travel, restaurants, gifts & services to many more worthy discounts through our Benefits Hub.
- Subsidised health & critical illness cover and insurances.
- Supportive family related leave policies (including company enhanced pay for maternity, IVF & Fertility, surrogacy, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave).
- A Menopause Friendly Employer.
- Employee Recognition and Appreciation Schemes.
- Oh, and a great bunch of people to work with too.
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At Mamas & Papas, we’re a business for the future. Every day, we help to welcome a new generation of children into the world, and we want them to grow up in a world that’s sustainable – one that’s full of opportunity and hope.
We also operate at Head Office:
- Hybrid flexi office working with 2 days working from home.
- Flexi-time schemes based around core working hours whether in the office, or working from home.
(NB: All benefits subject to individual schemes criteria & terms)
Mamas & Papas (Head Office)
Colne Bridge Road,
Huddersfield,
West Yorkshire
HD5 0RH
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