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As one of the largest and fastest-growing powered access companies in the UK, AFI-Rentals builds success by nurturing talent and rewarding hard work. If you are looking for a fast-paced and rewarding career, we'd love to hear from you.

AFI Rentals Group is currently looking to recruit a part-qualified Assistant Management Accountant to work from our Wakefield office. Although the role is ideally full time, part-time applicants will be considered.

Hours - Monday to Friday, 8.30am-5.00pm (37.5 hrs per week).

About the Role

The responsibilities of this Assistant Management Accountant role include:

Preparing divisional monthly management accounts as part of an experienced team of finance professionals.
Acting as a business partner and first point of contact to directors and managers of a number of divisions of the group to develop:
Accurate, timely, and well-presented management accounts information, in comparison with budget, forecast, and prior year
Rolling trading forecasts
Annual budgets
Ad-hoc financial and commercial information to support business decision-making
Offering independent challenges to colleagues of financial performance.
Balance sheet reconciliations and management, including supporting the business in the control of an extensive rental fixed asset base in a capital-intensive industry.
Working alongside the finance team to present financial results and supporting information to stakeholders that clearly communicates key drivers for performance.
Running a UK payroll alongside colleagues.
Supporting the finance team in group treasury, cash flow forecasting, and cash management activities.Furthermore, as part of a finance team in a UK-wide and international group, opportunities exist to gather extensive experience across the whole of finance.

Benefits

25 days holiday, plus statutory holidays.
Inclusion in a profit share scheme.
An auto-enrolment pension scheme with employer contributions (from age 22, but voluntary enrolment can be made before this age. Opt-out available).
Death-in-Service benefit of 2 x salary.
Healthcare cash plan.
MyAFI - a comprehensive employee benefits, rewards, and discount programme. Benefits include Cycle2Work Scheme, Aviva private medical insurance, and holiday trading, to name a few.
Guaranteed Christmas bonus.In addition, AFI has invested in an excellent induction programme and staff training (we currently hold an Investors in People award). Specifically, you will receive exam support to complete a recognised accountancy training contract.

Essential Skills

A part-qualified accountant, ideally progressing towards a CIMA qualification, with relevant management accounting experience in a similar industry.
Strong work ethic and a passion for continuous development, both of finance systems and processes and of yourself within a fast-paced, dynamic business.
Good IT skills, including Excel and other Microsoft Office products, and experience using recognised accounts packages.
Ability to analyse information and financial performance and communicate findings.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Works well as part of a team and can demonstrate providing finance support to internal customers across an organisation.

Desirable Skills

Experience in payroll is desired but not essential.

Showcase your experience and develop your skills with us; apply for this Assistant Management Accountant role today!

About Company

AFI-Rentals is one of the UK's leading powered access rental companies, and we provide everything a person needs to work at height safely. From a modern specialist rental fleet to high-quality training, we are a one-stop shop for the working-at-height industry.

Our core values are teamwork, customer service, and profitability, and we believe employee professional development is at the heart of our success. Because of this, we are an accredited Investors in People company - and have been for many years.

We also have a strong emphasis on Health and Safety and are proud to hold various accreditations, such as:

ISO9001
ISO14001
ISO45001
5-Star Achilles BuildingConfidence
Gold RoSPA award
+ morePlease note that we operate a 2-stage interview process and online testing to screen candidates