Management Accountant

Johnsons Cars are one of the UK’s leading independent Franchise Dealership Networks, with 51 multi-award winning Dealerships across the UK. Established in 1999 we have grown rapidly to represent a variety of global car manufacturers with 16 marques in total ranging from Volkswagen to Jeep, Fiat Professional, Volvo, Honda, Toyota, Lexus and Mazda to Fiat, Hyundai, Seat, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Skoda and Ford.

At Johnsons Cars we can give you the chance to be part of a friendly local team, where everyone enjoys their working day and the customers enjoy our attitude to make it happen with trustworthy advice. Join us as part of our strong team across the UK, and we will invest in your development and future.

Johnsons Cars have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Management Accountant to be based out of our Volkswagen Birmingham dealership.

Duties and responsibilities include

• To produce monthly site and consolidated management accounts to specified deadlines.
• To acquaint the Financial Controller and General Managers of fall down areas.
• To ensure all control accounts are reconciled monthly
• To ensure certain stock accounts are reconciled monthly with physical counts
• To ensure accounting procedures are correctly adhered to throughout the department and the Company as a whole. Undertaking internal audits within the company as required.
• To prepare and submit Manufacturer returns
• To prepare / consolidate group format profit forecasts – weekly / quarterly / ad-hoc
• To analyse and compare financial and non financial key indicator data (external and internal) presenting to management in a meaningful and appropriate format
• To assist with working capital management - controlling funding plans / loan accounts, forecasting cashflows etc.
• To prepare financial year end statutory accounts and full supporting packs
• To prepare draft budgets, both capital and revenue, in conjunction with the General Managers and Financial Controller
• To attend management meetings and training activities when required
• To provide financial advice and guidance to General and Line Management
• To perform other tasks as reasonably requested by the Financial Controller or Franchise Director.

If you are successful you can look forward to 28 days holiday (increasing to 33 with length of service) including Bank Holidays, individual and team performance-related bonus, Pension scheme & Life Assurance, staff discounts on a wide range of products and services, and many other benefits you would expect from a market leading Company.