Accountant

Oakmere is a growing house-building company operating across Northwest England and based in Kendal, Cumbria. We build mainly on Greenfield sites and focus on delivering high quality housing, with a large pipeline of schemes from 20 homes to several hundred.

Oakmere Homes is a growing company with an experienced management structure, which will provide the successful candidate with a diverse range of responsibilities and reporting directly to the Directors.

The successful Accountant will ideally need to have experience in preparing management accounts.

Accountant Duties include, but are not limited to:

- Payment processing:  Prepare and manage payments for suppliers, consultants and contractors.

- Ensuring that VAT reconciliations are up to date.

- Production of the full year consolidations for full year financial statements

- Assistance/production of the annual tax packs, disclosures for the consolidated and subsidiary accounts and other requirements throughout the period.

- Manage the insurance for the company and other secretarial duties.

- Preparation of monthly management accounts pack (consolidated), with overall responsibility for all balance sheet items and P&L cost items.

- Supporting the Directors in the budget and forecast process.

- Providing cash flow analysis to support funding requirements.

Other Accountant duties may include:

- Working with the different teams to define and maintain the project’s original budget and any approved change orders and budget transfers occurring during the course of the project.

- Working with the Senior Managers to review tender documentation and quotations, and review of relevant contracts to ensure that we accurately forecast against budgets, and that commercial terms are acceptable.

- Preparing monthly cheques for the projects, ensuring all costs are paid on a timely basis.

- Regularly updating the cash flows for the projects.

- Processing Tax, VAT and other taxes.

Skills:

- Excellent working knowledge of Sales, Purchase and Nominal Ledgers.

- Experience in the Property Development industry would be useful.

- Excellent negotiating and people skills.

- Be able to communicate advice on costs.

- Team player.

- Good understanding of VAT and Tax.

In return you will receive a competitive salary, working in a fantastic location just outside of Kendal and for a private company with a pro-active and enjoyable culture.

Closing date for applications: 23rd February 2015

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