Suzuki Weston-Super-Mare and Peugeot Weston-Super-Mare Job: Management Accountant - Howards Group
  • Howards Motor Group

    01934 428844

    Unit 1 Hildesheim Bridge, Weston-super-Mare
    Somerset
    BS23 3PT

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    01934 332600

    Searle Crescent, Weston-super-Mare
    Somerset
    BS23 3YX

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  • Management Accountant - Howards Group

    Date Added:
    12 February 2025

    Location:
    Suzuki Weston-Super-Mare
    Peugeot Weston-Super-Mare


    Salary:
    Competitive Salary dependent on skills, qualifications and experience

    Closing Date:
    26 February 2025

    Contract Type:
    Full Time and Permanent

    Job Reference:


     

    JOB DESCRIPTION

    This is a high-profile role within the Howards Motor Group Head Office finance team is based at our Peugeot/Fiat retailer in Weston super Mare.  This opportunity will suit an ambitious and proactive individual who can consistently deliver timely and accurate financial reporting to a wide range of stakeholders across the business. Howards is a multi-site automotive retailer group, operating a wide portfolio of manufacturer brands at locations in WSM, Taunton, Yeovil and Dorchester.

    You will support the accounts team with the preparation of monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and Group accounts consolidation, within the published timetable. Annually, you will be involved in the preparation of budgets and year end accounts and schedules. The role is strongly focused on business improvement and the desire to increase efficiency of accounts processes to support overall productivity.

    Key Skills:

    • Minimum AAT Level 4 or studying towards ACCA or CIMA.
    • Strong communicator across various platforms and ability to align people’s activities to a common goal.
    • Advanced Excel is a necessity for this role e.g. Pivot Tables, complex forumulas and data analytic techniques.
    • Deadline driven and able to work under pressure.
    • Good understanding of industry KPIs and able to interpret management accounts to identify areas of improvement.
    • Able to follow specific process/instructions and able to work independently to deliver delegated projects.
    • Experience of automotive software Keyloop ‘Drive’ (formerly CDK) or Kerridge Rev 8 is advantageous, but not essential.
    • Comfortable in travelling and facilitating meetings with other key employees across all Howards locations, including Finance Team members and other key Managers.

    What we offer in return

    • Good Basic Salary 
    • Generous Holiday Allowance - Increasing with service
    • Pension Scheme with a well known and established provider - salary sacrifice scheme available 
    • Discounted MOT & Service costs and car purchase scheme
    • Employee Long Service Recognition Scheme
    • Life Assurance Scheme from day one
    • On the job training and great career opportunities

    How to apply

    Please click through on the link below to upload your CV.

    Closing Date & Interviews

    The closing date will be midnight on 26 February, 2025. 

    We are an Equal Opportunity employer and are committed to accommodating the needs of individuals with disabilities. If you require any specific accommodations during the interview process, please let us know.

     NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

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  • Howards Garages (Weston) Ltd is an Appointed Representative of Automotive Compliance Ltd who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA No. 497010). Automotive Compliance Ltd’s permissions as a Principal Firm allows Howards Garages (Weston) Ltd to act as a credit broker, not a lender, for the introduction to a limited number of lenders, and to act as an agent on behalf of the insurer for insurance distribution activities only.

    We are a credit broker and not a lender. We can introduce you to a carefully selected panel of lenders, which includes manufacturer lenders linked directly to the franchises that we represent. We act on behalf of the lender for this introduction and not as your agent. We are not impartial, and we are not an independent financial advisor.

    Our approach is to introduce you first to the manufacturer lender linked directly to the particular franchise you are purchasing your vehicle from, who are usually able to offer the best available package for you, taking into account both interest rates and other contributions. If they are unable to make you an offer of finance, we then seek to introduce you to whichever of the other lenders on our panel is able to make the next most suitable offer of finance for you. Our aim is to secure a suitable finance agreement for you that enables you to achieve your financial objectives. If you purchase a vehicle, in the majority of cases, we will receive a commission from your lender for introducing you to them which is either a fixed fee, or a fixed percentage of the amount that you borrow. This may be linked to the vehicle model you purchase.

    Different lenders pay different commissions for such introductions, and manufacturer lenders linked directly to the franchises that we represent may also provide preferential rates to us for the funding of our vehicle stock and also provide financial support for our training and marketing. But any such amounts they and other lenders pay us will not affect the amounts you pay under your finance agreement; however, you will be contributing towards the commission paid to us with the interest collected on your repayments. Before we propose you to a potential lender, we will inform you of the likely amount of commission we will receive and seek your consent to receive this commission. The exact amount of commission that we will receive will be confirmed prior to you signing your finance agreement.

    All finance applications are subject to status, terms and conditions apply, UK residents only, 18s or over. Guarantees may be required.