abpm - Experts in Financial Recruitment

Description: Excellent opportunity to join a business that have built an enviable reputation in their market place as well as an impressive record of growth. The business currently require support for a six month period. You will find yourself involved in the preparation of key monthly financial information, assisting Finance and Operational Managers. You will provide analysis and insight to monitor and improve business performance. In addition, you will take responsibility for a number of ad hoc projects, reviewing and improving processes, testing and making continual improvements to area's of risk and business controls. Finally, being proactive in nature you will work with budget holders to understand and act upon monthly management information. You will be a qualified accountant and have worked within large sized organisations, communicating across multi site structures. It is imperative you possess above average Excel skills and a strong IT awareness.

Qualifications Required: ACA / ACCA / ACMA

Description: My Leeds based client is looking for an Accounts Clerk to join the business. You will be expected to provide efficient, accounting support to internal management and clients. Key duties will include the banking and system posting of cheques, allocating invoices to the correct systems, processing client refunds, liaise with external clients where appropriate, reconciliations, purchase ledger, petty cash and expense duties. You must have similar experience as volumes are reasonably high with a lot of the work processed manually. You must posses strong GCSE grades, a keen eye for detail and have strong communication skills.

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Description:
My client has a strong and established Business Recovery Team based in the centre of Birmingham. It now has an opportunity for an aspiring individual to join this group of specialists at Manager level. You should have at least 3 years of solid experience gained within a recognised organisation and have both the passion and desire to want to progress within the field of both corporate recovery and turnaround. Your work portfolio will include supporting voluntary liquidations as well supporting progressive and strategic initiatives to aid organisational turnarounds. The size and international nature of this Firm dictates great career and personal development for the successful candidate.

Candidates working towards or having achieved their JIEB qualification will be considered in preference to others.



Qualifications Required: ACA or ACCA and or JIEB

Description: A newly created role exists in the retail finance team of a market leading retail business with operations across the UK. Key areas of the role include the preparation and submission of management and local accounts, provision of MI and analysis of actual against budget with relevant commentary for variances, profitability analysis, liaising with with regional commercial managers to drive performance across their operations, planning and forecasting and numerous ad hoc projects. This is an excellent role for an active ACCA or CIMA studier who is looking to progress their career within a market leading organisation.

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Description: A local employer of choice is actively recruiting a management accountant to ensure cash efficiency and management accounting within a rapidly growing business. Reporting into the head of commercial finance and with responsibility for a highly capable junior, you will be tasked with the provision of current cash position, cash forecasting, bank relationship management, liaising with the acquisition team, acquisition modelling, FX management, variance analysis, maintaining and updating the funding model, monthly reporting, staff management and various ad hoc projects. My client is one of Lincolnshire most successful multi award winning businesses and career progression for the right individual is available

Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA

Description: A marketing finance analyst is required by an instantly recognisable service sector business with multiple international operations. Reporting to the marketing finance manager, you will be part of a highly regarded team that provides analytical decision support to the marketing teams. Key to the role will be your ability to influence and improve commercial performance through the effective provision of support to new product development and other marketing initiatives. This is a pivotal role within the organisation challenging ideas and initiatives and delivering high level presentations regarding business models, risk analysis, business strategy development and numerous ad hoc projects. Key to the role will be your strong analytical / business modelling background and ability to influence. You will be a qualified accountant with a strong academic background and be looking to develop your career through either financial, operational and commercial routes.

Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA

Description: A fluent German speaking internal auditor is required by an well known international brand to bolster their existing audit team. The role has been created to facilitate the integration of the German audit requirements into the group function as well as strong involvement with the UK audit plan. The role carries c40% travel to Germany and to be considered you must comply with this. Audits are conducted on a risk based approach and work to a specific framework although a "common sense" approach is encouraged due to the diversity of my clients portfolio. Ideally, you will have had previous experience of working in either an external or internal audit capacity and possess fluent German skills.

Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA

Description: ABPM are working with one of the country's fastest growing household names to recruit a commercial analyst supporting their supply chain and e-commerce departments. Reporting into the commercial finance manager, the role has been specifically created to support the commercial team as the business continues to develop the e-commerce front as well as give a dedicated resource to the supply team in order to identify potential cost savings. Key to the role will be your ability to deliver key business reports and all financial reporting and forecasting for strategic business areas. Ideally you will be an active ACCA or CIMA studier, be proficient with excel, possess strong analytical skills and have gained commercial exposure. On offer is a forward looking role with a business that has witnessed phenomenal growth of recent years and is looking to be seen as a market leader in the new markets that it enters.

Qualifications Required: Active ACA, ACCA, CIMA studier

Description: An acquisitions and integration accountant is required by one of Lincoln's premier employers. Reporting into the head of mergers and acquisitions, the role is to have hands on, day to day involvement with an acquired business post completion to ensure a smooth integration. Responsibilities include;
· Obtaining a good understanding of the 'deal' prior to completion.
· Providing support and guidance to the acquired companies existing finance team post completion.
· Ensuring the acquired companies results prior to 'hive up' are produced in a timely fashion and in a format ready to be included in group reporting.
· Providing detailed analysis and supporting information for the management accounts produced by the acquired company.
· Management of cost control post completion to ensure cost savings identified prior to completion are effectively realised.
· Ensuring the smooth transition of accounting from the acquired companies own systems and staff to those of the group.
· Ensuring good communication is maintained with the relevant individuals so that matters are addressed promptly and efficiently.
· Providing support to the Group Acquisitions Manager as required.
This is an excellent time to join a business that is looking to increase group turnover by £200m over the next 2-3 years by means of an organic and aggressive growth strategy. Ideally you will be a qualified accountant and prepared to undertake some UK travel.

Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA

Description: This client has an immediate need to add high quality Auditors to it's current advisory team. Candidates should be recently qualified and have strong audit experience to work on an growing profile of local clients. This is an attractive role for someone wishing to fast track their career to Manager. This client is keen to hear from candidates that have an ambition to grow their careers at a fast pace and from those that relish the challenge of early responsibility.

Candidates should be ACA qualified and be able to demonstrate a solid foundation in audit/advisory work.

Qualifications Required: ACA

Description: Following a 21% organic growth in business over the last year, a newly created role for head of finance EMEA has been created to oversee the financial activities of the EMEA and Indian regions. Reporting into the Finance Director, based in the states, you will take up a hands hands on position and will be responsible for all general accounting and tax functions for EMEA and India. This will include overseeing and processing AP and AR; processing and/or coordinating employee payroll and employee benefits; provident fund/retirement fund administration, preparation or supervision of monthly/quarterly/annual tax reports, month end close; preparing consolidated financial reports and analysis for management, budgeting, and the supervision of the team. This position will also responsible for coordinating the year-end audit, tax preparation and working with the company attorneys on corporate issues.
Requirements:
* International accounting, tax and human resource experience in UK, Europe and India. If no hands on experience in a particular country, candidate must be dedicated to gaining the required knowledge.
* Excellent command of English required and fluent in French and German preferred.
* Comfortable dealing with CPA's, auditors, attorneys, third party service providers
This is a excellent time to join a rapidly growing business that differentiates itself by it's groundbreaking proposition.


Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA

Description: Are you looking for your next career move into a market leader? ABPM are currently recruiting an exciting opportunity for an IT Auditor into a newly formed internal audit function in the West Midlands. The business are an industry leader, who have performed well during the economic downturn.
The newly formed Internal Audit function is seen as business critical offering strategic support to Key projects, offering assurance to the senior management allowing them to meet defined business objectives. Your role will be to identify risks, controls and solutions that may affect the business environment.
In order to be successful in your application for this role, you will be career hungry, looking for a stepping stone into the business. You will have a strategic outlook in your audit approach, partnering with the business to develop best practice, developing a culture of continuous improvement.
You will have the ability to lead as well as being impactful at the most senior levels within the organisation and due to the nature of the role, you will have an absolute desire to progress. You will be analytically strong and possess the ability to be commercial in your decision making.

Qualifications Required: ACA, CISA, QICA

Description: IT Risk Auditor

Working for a leading Professional Services Firm, this is an interesting role for someone to join a small but dedicated team of a UK wide Firm. This is an ideal role for a recently qualified Accountant. With focus on technology and other IT systems, you will work alongside the external audit team in considering and determining risk and assurance matters. Clients include both public and private sectors and range in size. Alternatively, if you have progressed your career through the CISA route that will equally be highly acceptable for this role.

Most important is your willingness to travel to client sites which can range from East/West Midlands to the areas of the South West. In return you will receive extensive mentoring and personal/technical development and have clear achievable path to Manager.


Qualifications Required: CISA or ACCA or ACA

Description: The role of Acquisition Integration Accountant is to have hands on, day to day involvement with an acquired business post completion to ensure a smooth integration into the group.
Responsibilities
· Obtaining a good understanding of the 'deal' prior to completion.
· Providing support and guidance to the acquired companies existing finance team post completion.
· Ensuring the acquired companies results prior to 'hive up' are produced in a timely fashion and in a format ready to be included in Group reporting.
· Providing detailed analysis and supporting information for the management accounts produced by the acquired company.
· Management of cost control post completion to ensure cost savings identified prior to completion are effectively realised.
· Ensuring the smooth transition of accounting from the acquired companies own systems and staff to those of the Group.
· Ensuring good communication is maintained with the relevant individuals so that matters are addressed promptly and efficiently.
· Providing support to the Group Acquisitions Manager as required.
This is an excellent role for a self starting qualified accountant that is either looking to make a first move from practice or has a strong industry background to move to a business that is planned to double it's turnover in the next 3 years by means of organic and aggressive growth. They are unrivalled in their growth to date and are looking to talented individuals to grow with them.

Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA

Description: A qualified accountant is required by a market leading business based in Lincolnshire to take up the newly created financial analyst post. Reporting into the head of commercial finance, the role has been designed to enable the provision of meaningful management information as well as undertaking some month end duties. My client is one the market leaders in it's chosen field are are regularly recognised and rewarded by trade bodies for the contribution that they make. With a turnover in the hundred's of millions and a diverse client base, the financial analyst role has been created with the target of creating and analysing key ratios, KPI's, profitability analysis, ROI analysis, client margins, ROCE analysis, spend analysis and various other ad hoc projects. A new system is planned to be introduced in the next 18 month and the ideal candidate will possess very strong excel skills and have a history of system improvements.

Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA

Description: A newly created management post has been created within my clients world leading shared service centre as Head of Service Delivery for one of their most recognisable brands.
Key areas of responsibility will be:
* Governing the service levels between the SSC and the business ensuring that services are being delivered effectively, efficiently and represent good value for money.
* Ensure processes and outputs meet the SSC's requirements.
* Accountability for the integrity of the SSC's managed data.
* Highlighting, agreeing and transferring any transactional processes to the SSC's to comply with Finance Strategy.
* Driving forward change management programmes, new start-ups and migrations.
* Ensuring all SSC's reporting and statutory requirements are delivered on time and to a high standard including interfacing with external advisors.
* Supporting the Finance key initiatives as required.
* Influencing the development of future SSC's strategy.
The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with considerable statutory accounting and audit experience and have an up-to-date knowledge of IFRS. In addition, you will be customer focused, committed to service delivery, have excellent communication and analytical skills and a can-do attitude. The ability to influence at senior levels and work under pressure to tight deadlines is essential.


Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA

Description: As part of my clients ongoing success and increase in market share, a newly created role has been created for a financial analyst. Reporting into the finance manager for one of their key divisions, the role has been created to provide analytical and commercial support to sales sectors of the relevant business teams. This will be achieved by influencing and improving commercial performance through the effective provision of support to the business development teams. Key areas include:
· Financial analysis and decision support for the Sales (Acquisition) Business to drive improved performance and help the Business Unit meet its financial and non-financial targets
· Delivery of the appropriate tools and models to provide the required analytical support to the Sales teams
· Responsibility for providing financial appraisals for related Investment Proposals
· Work with the commercial and wider teams in developing plans / budgets which meet financial / business targets.
· Be a key input to the formulation and implementation of commercial strategies to ensure profitability is optimised
· Act as a business partner for key areas of the business. This would include, explaining performance and further developing current reporting capability.
· To support Cost Centre Managers and to improve the overall understanding of financials within the teams.
To be considered for the role, you will either be a qualified or late stage studier and possess strong analytical skills.


Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA

Description: As part of a restructure in finance, a management accountant is required to join my service sector client. Reporting into the head of finance and overseeing 2 clerks, you will be responsible for:
The coordinating budgets, budgetary control and day-to-day financial administration.
Assisting in ensuring procedures and systems are in place to develop and monitor systems to enable budgetary control by all budget holders and offer assistance and advice to budget holders where required.
Prepare benchmarking information for submission to benchmarking groups.
Assist the Finance Manager to co-ordinate the statutory accounts for the legal entity and liaise with the Group's internal and external auditors where appropriate.
Undertake financial appraisals to ensure that Boards/Committees are fully aware of the financial implications of all projects, proposals etc.
Coordinate performance reporting against targets and to assist in the preparation of financial reports for Boards and senior management teams as required.
Participate in giving training and advice to both finance and other staff to ensure they can carry out the agreed financial policies and procedures.
Assist the team with the development of procedures and practices in accordance with policies.
Manage support and motivate your finance staff and ensure performance is monitored appropriately.
Ideally, you will be a qualified accountant looking to progress their career in an organisation that readily embraces change.

Qualifications Required: ACMA, ACA, ACCA

Description: ABPM are working exclusively for a market leading international consultancy firm who are recruiting a controller to oversee their Uk, European and Indian operations.

Reporting into the director of finance in the US, this is a hands on position responsible for all general accounting and tax functions for locations in the UK, Europe, and India. This which will include: overseeing and processing AP and AR; processing and/or coordinating employee payroll and employee benefits; provident fund/retirement fund administration, preparation or supervision of monthly/quarterly/annual tax reports (VAT, Service tax, etc depending on the country), month end close; preparing consolidated financial reports and analysis for management, budgeting, and the supervision of one or two accountants. This position will also responsible for coordinating the year-end audit, tax preparation and working with the company attorneys on corporate issues. Additionally, human resources.

Given the European nature of the role, the successful candidate will have a business level understanding of French and German. On offer is a highly competitive salary, bonus in excess of 15%, market leading pension and other flexible benefits.


Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA

Description: Following an internal promotion, an internal auditor is required to be based out of Czechoslovakia for a global manufacturing business. Reporting into the Regional Audit manager, you will be responsible for conducting audits on their sites in Eastern Europe as well as exposure to their global operations. You will already have gained exposure to either internal or external audit, be qualified from a Big 4 practice and have good language skills: very good English + fluent in one of Czech/Polish. Good standard of Russian would be very useful as well. The role carries to 70% travel and offer the potential to rotate into Operational finance position in about 3 years. My client is one of international repute operating in a high demand sector and has demonstrable success in both organic and aggressive growth.



Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, MBA

Description: An multi-lingual internal auditor is required by a global business based out of one of their main hub locations. The role has been created through internal promotion and requires an internationally mobile auditor who is fluent in a major European language to join their team. The remit of the role is to carry out an independent examination of the procedures, processes and management control exercised through the business, with a view to monitoring the maintenance of adequate security over Group assets, contributing to improved Corporate profitability, assessing the level of control risk and ensuring the integrity and availability of management information. The ideal candidate will be a qualified ACA, ACCA, ACMA or European equivalent candidate who has gained solid audit experience in either an internal or external capacity. On offer is an excellent remuneration package as well as excellent domestic and international career opportunities.

Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA, European Equivalent

Description: My client has an elite international reputation within the Banking sector. Their established Corporate Finance Team now has approval for the addition for two new Executives to support its growing M&A activity. The role includes working on specific projects including transactional structuring, share valuations, preparation of financial projections, business plans, information memorandum, spreadsheet modelling, as well as project management support on acquisitions and disposals.

The client is specifically interested in strong team players with at least a years corporate finance experience gained within a big 4 environment. They are particularly keen on candidates who are commercially aware and keen to develop their career within the banking sector.

As well as a strong reward package and an opportunity to develop your skills in this area, my client is also offering a more fun and varied work portfolio and most importantly the ability to work in a highly respected team and organisation.


Qualifications Required: ACA

Description: Following a corporate restructure, a newly created role of finance manager has been created within a forward looking business in South Derbyshire. Reporting into the head of finance and with responsibility for a small team covering both financial and management accounting, you will be responsible for the meaningful preparation and delivery of all accounting matters relating to the business. In addition, you will be focused in two key areas:
- the development and mentoring of a ambitious team consisting of part qualified and more junior personnel
- the creation of new MI and the resulting analysis and delivery.
This is a high profile role within my clients organisation and will be visible throughout the business. As such you should be a confident communicator, be commercially aware and astute in your decision making. To be considered, you will be a qualified accountant, have recent man management experience, possess good IT skills (including access and excel) and be wishing to progress your career.
On offer is a competitive salary, market leading benefits package and the ability the work from a "blank piece of paper".

Qualifications Required: ACA, ACCA, ACMA, CIPFA or equivalent

Description: My Wakefield client is looking for an Assistant Accountant to join the expanding finance team. Key duties of this influential role include; providing finance support for the sales & marketing teams, providing accurate and timely MI, product costing, analytical work, budgets, forecasts and assisting with period end work. To succeed in the role and wider business, you must possess commercial awareness, a keen eye for detail, analytical skills and have the drive and determination to make an immediate impact. You will ideally have a numerical degree, with sandwich placement, or be studying for a professional qualification (AAT, ACCA, CIMA).

Qualifications Required: AAT/CIMA/ACCA Studying

Description: My client is looking for a permanent part time payroll clerk to join the business immediately. You will be expected to work 20 hours per week, with a view to completing some additional overtime when required. You will be managing the entire payroll process for between 60-100 weekly paid staff and dealing with any queries as and when they arise. There are seasonal elements to the workload, hence the fluctuation in staff numbers. There will also be a small involvement in Purchase Ledger duties and training will be provided. You must have previous payroll experience and a knowledge of Sage 50 would be advantageous.

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Description: My Wakefield based client, is looking for an Assistant Accountant to join the finance team. Operating as a No.2 to the Financial Controller, your key duties will primarily include producing month-end branch accounts, managing the cashbook, reconciliations, jornals and ad-hoc duties as and when required. This is a perfect opportunity to develop your skills and gain hands-on experience through company wide exposure. Previous accounting experience combined with good IT skills, particularly Excel, are all essential.

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Description: My Leeds based client is looking for an Assistant Accountant to join the finance team. Reporting directly to the Finance Director, your key duties will primarily include an involvement in period end reporting, costing work, journals, fixed assets, detailed reporting & analysis and to generally assist with the operational side of the business. This is a perfect opportunity to develop your skills and gain hands-on experience through company wide exposure. Previous accounting experience combined with good IT and analytical skills are all essential. A strong knowledge of Excel and exposure to Access Dimensions would aid your application.

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