Assistant Management Accountant

Assistant Management Accountants are a critical part of the team, providing the first line of financial analysis. As a trainee accountant you will be responsible for processing accounting transactions, balance sheet control and P&L analysis. The role is key in understanding TalkTalk's business performance through the support you provide to our finance business partners, allowing the organisation to make quality informed decisions.

What you will be working on

• Build trusted, key stakeholder relationships and proactively seek business and product knowledge to contextualise understanding and analysis;


• Prepare and reconcile of balance sheet accounts, raising corrective journals where necessary and highlighting risks and opportunities;


• Interpret and manipulate large amounts of complex data from various sources to prepare month end Management Accounts, ensuring adherence to accounting regulation


• Adopt existing and new accounting standards into the preparation of month end results;


• Analyse trends and variances across the financial statement, interlinking non-financial data with financial data, to interpret business performance and aid business understanding for decision making;


• Timely and articulate communication of findings and analysis to ensure prompt action and decision making;


• Investigate and respond to financial queries in a prompt and efficient manner;


• Support internal and external audit teams, with queries and reviews;


• Operate and challenge existing controls and highlight process inefficiencies, to enhance the control framework and improve departmental effectiveness, undertaking activities to implement the improvements.
  
  Must have:


• Analytical and process skills


• Strong written and verbal communication skills



• Great to have:


• Studying or desire to study towards CIMA / ACCA qualification


• Advanced Excel Skills


• Proven ability to engage with a variety of stakeholders


• Flexible to change



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• Takes accountability for deliverables


• High attention to detail


• Delivery to tight deadlines


• Highly organised and able to prioritise workload


• Positive Can-do Attitude to work
  
  We are PXC, the UK's largest provider of wholesale connectivity. Our vision is to be the UK's #1 wholesale platform, a one-stop shop provider of connectivity, voice, cloud and security underpinned by the UK's most robust, secure, resilient and reliable network.


Born from the combination of Virtual1 and TalkTalk's wholesale services and national network business, we employ 1100 people across our 3 core sites (Salford, London and North Macedonia).

Our mission is clear, to be the UK's best company to work for and best to work with. We believe this success is driven by the power of our employees. We empower our people to become true experts in their field who embody our values every day: we care; we challenge; we commit.

Here are just some of the ways we recognise and reward our colleagues:

• True flexible working and hybrid working options available for staff


• Fantastic, accessible and collaborative office spaces for those days in the office


• 25 days holiday plus your birthday off (you also get the option to buy up to 10 extra days holiday per year your holiday allowance goes up with tenure)


• Free private healthcare for all employees, competitive pension scheme and the opportunity to earn bonus


• Free broadband for all employees plus gifts for major life events such as marriages and birth


• Flexible salary sacrifice scheme including dental, gym, electric car scheme and much more, plus a huge range of shopping and leisure discounts so you can save even more cash


• A range of inclusive employee networks to help integrate employees into life at PXC


At PXC, we know that diversity means success and innovation. We want our workplace to reflect the communities and customer we serve. Being inclusive is part of our DNA; we are all 100% human, and we create a culture where you can truly be yourself.

We're also not your usual 9-5. We are a dynamic workplace and we want to talk to you about how you like to work.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: £25,822.90-£48,428.08 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension


• Cycle to work scheme


• Employee discount


• Free parking


• On-site parking


• Referral programme


• Work from home


Schedule:

• Monday to Friday


Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme