Assistant Management Accountant

Anglian Water Services; Huntingdon; Hybrid; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water services company seeks an Assistant Management Accountant to manage compliance, budgeting, and financial reporting. The role offers flexible hybrid work opportunities, competitive pay, and a strong focus on personal development, aiming to empower professionals to thrive in their finance careers.

Benefits

Full private healthcare with no excess

26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays

Flexible working culture

Competitive pension scheme

Life Assurance at eight times your salary

Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

Bonus Scheme

Great discounts and flexible benefits

Paid time off for well-being

Excellent Family Leave package

Qualifications

• Part qualified accountant with previous accounting experience.
• Excellent analytical skills and capable of working towards set deadlines.
• Strong communication skills to relay financial information.

Responsibilities

• Maintain compliance with financial controls policy & procedure.
• Deliver business planning and management accounting processes for OPEX and CAPEX.
• Support statutory and regulatory reporting and provide analytical support.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

IT skills

Education

Part qualified accountant

Tools

Microsoft Excel

SAP

Job description

Circa £34,339 per annum, dependent on skills and experience

6 Months Secondment / Full-time, 37 hours

Hybrid: Huntingdon & Home-working

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be Lancaster House in Huntingdon.

Join our team and make a difference

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Management Accountant to join our team here at Anglian Water. You will be responsible for maintaining compliance with financial controls policy & procedure and managing the escalation of control issues for your designated business area.

The successful candidate will play an active role in delivering business planning and management accounting processes for OPEX and CAPEX, driving continuous improvement of processes and effectively building strong working relationships with key stakeholders. The budget areas you will also be responsible for will be of a small size and low complexity.

As a key member of our Finance team, you will also provide transactional and analytical support to Management Accountants and Senior Management accountants as required. You will provide support for statutory and regulatory reporting, providing analysis and business knowledge to the process. Throughout all responsibilities, you will champion the fundamental principles of standardisation, automation, efficiency and compliance, and maximising opportunities through innovation and technology.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Full private healthcare with no excess
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• A flexible working culture
• Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Life Assurance at eight times your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
• Bonus Scheme
• Lots of great discounts
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
• An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family

What does it take to be an Assistant Management Accountant?

• Part qualified accountant
• Previous accounting experience and an understanding & application of modern management accounting techniques.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to adapt and challenge.
• Good organisation skills and capable of working towards set deadlines.
• Excellent IT and computer skills, particularly Microsoft Excel and Word.
• SAP experience would be beneficial.
• Strong communication skills and able to communicate financial information to non-financial managers.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.

Closing date: 4th July 2025

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