Assistant Management Accountant

ENGINEERINGUK; Leyland; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job description

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Your New Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Management Accountant to join the MOJ Finance Team 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 responsible for assisting with the producing and reporting of the management accounts. You will work closely with the finance team, focusing specifically on P&L robustness and supporting projects where applicable.

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

You will be responsible for:

• Communicating with contract-based staff to resolve queries as they arise.
• Producing and developing management reporting, understanding trends and providing meaningful information to enable management action to be taken to address areas requiring improvement.
• Providing assistance and support to commercial management through expert data organisation skills utilising pivot tables, lookup formulas, sumifs formulas, data sort and file links.
• Building effective relationships with functional areas and site-based teams to provide a reliable point of contact for all aspects of data integrity and financial reporting.
• Ensuring the integrity of financial transaction information held within SAP.
• Utilising SAP transaction detail and data manipulation skills to produce quality information to non-financial operational management.
• Assisting with the production of the monthly management accounts.
• Assisting with the production of the monthly site profit and loss accounts by ensuring the robustness of cost allocations.
• Preparing and posting month end journals including WIP, Revenue, provisions, accruals and prepayments.
• Ensuring contract costs are controlled with robust procedures in place.
• Pro-actively addressing issues and anomalies with finance, commercial and operations colleagues, explaining financial terminology to those with non-finance backgrounds.
• Ensuring balance sheet reconciliations are completed and key variances are understood and resolved, including appropriate audit trail and support.
• Raising and issuing client invoices, utilising the client AFP data, including chasing of cash receipts and providing updates to the senior management and treasury teams.

We want to hear from you if you have:

• Experience in a similar role within accounts.
• A degree in either Maths or Finance is desirable or working towards finance qualifications.
• Excellent IT Skills including SAP and Excel.
• Ability to work towards strict deadlines.
• Ability to work comfortably with numbers, with commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• High level of attention to detail.

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 [e-mail] 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.