Management Accountant

Your New Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for Management Accountant to join our Complex Facilities business unit, supporting the MOJ contract on a full time, permanent basis.

This role will be based in Leyland and will offer hybrid working with occasional travel.

Covering 63 sites with a contract worth circa £175m, you will be reporting to the Finance Manager and will be tasked with finance reporting, planning and analysis support to ensure accurate management accounting information, budgets and forecasts.

The standard hours of work are based on 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday.

You will be responsible for:

• Liaising with stakeholders to provide guidance and direction to any direct reports and qualify, communicate and fulfil month-end reporting, forecasts and budgets processes
• Producing high-quality analysis of the information required for monthly results, forecasts, and budgets including variance bridges.
• Reviewing and completing monthly management accounts with targeted commentary appropriate for senior management reference.
• Pro-actively addressing issues and anomalies with finance, commercial and operational colleagues, explaining financial terminology to those with non-finance backgrounds.
• Instigating profit improvement plans in conjunction with operational and commercial managers to drive the contract in achieving forecast and budget aspirations.
• Understanding of site target operating models, ensuring sites are provided with the correct level of information to allow them to manage labour costs.
• Producing and tracking contract performance key indicators and measures using dashboards, graphs and visualisations.
• Retrieve and gather data, analysis and organise to formulate meaningful conclusions.
• Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are completed and key variances are understood and resolved.
• Ensure correct measures and controls are in place to support off-line database and SAP data integrity, validation, trend awareness along with cost and revenue match.
• Liaise with external audit to ensure statutory audit processes can be completed within the prescribed timeframes with no material adjusting audit differences identified.

We want to hear from you if you:

• Part Qualified / accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Excellent IT Skills including knowledge of Excel (vlookups, pivot tables and sumifs) and SAP
• Ability to achieve tight deadlines with high degree of quality and understanding.
• Good knowledge of accounting practices, statutory regulations and reporting requirements.
• Experience of forecasting
• Stakeholder management experience
• Proactive approach to anticipate and resolve protentional differences.
• Confident at retrieving and gathering data, with the skill to organise it to formulate meaningful conclusions.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Experience of complex reconciliations would be beneficial.

What we can offer you

When you join us, we can offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs. It’s the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers and we have a competitive reward and benefits program

• Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan
• Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
• Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, dental vouchers
• Social Value - You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives

We embrace difference and support individuals to work in ways that work best for them.

We are committed to working sustainably and by working in partnership with the communities we serve, so people and the planet are protected.

Who is Amey?

• We are at the heart of modern Britain, helping the economy to grow by designing, maintaining and transforming the nation’s strategic assets.
• Our 11,000 people are behind the critical services the country relies on every day.
• Our unique engineering and operations experience, together with data driven insight from our consulting business, delivers better results for our clients.  
• We are trusted partners of Government – both national and local – managing assets and complex projects that are vital to the sustainable growth of the country.

To find out more take a look at our website www.amey.co.uk

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs, reasonable adjustments or additional support that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

Apply today – We are excited to hear from you!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the closing date should we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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