Assistant Management Accountant

Thalia; Milton Keynes, Cambridge, York; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits at a forward-thinking waste management company, seeking an Assistant Management Accountant. This role focuses on delivering accurate management accounts, reconciliation, and cost allocation while supporting financial insights. Join a progressive organization that values sustainability and innovation, where your analytical skills will contribute to impactful projects. With a commitment to continuous improvement, you'll work in a collaborative environment, driving positive change. If you're detail-oriented and ready to grow in your finance career, this position is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• Detail-oriented with strong analytical skills and finance experience.
• Studying towards ACCA or CIMA or qualified by experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts and perform reconciliations.
• Support annual budgets and cashflow reporting.

Skills

Understanding of debits and credits

Cost allocation principles

Analytical mindset

Problem-solving skills

Clear communication skills

Education

Studying towards ACCA or CIMA

Qualified by experience

Tools

SAP

Job description

Posted Wednesday 12 February 2025 at 01:00 | Expires Monday 3 March 2025 at 00:59

Thalia Waste Management is seeking an Assistant Management Accountant to support the delivery of accurate and timely management accounts, with a focus on reconciliation, transactional data analysis, and cost allocation.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is detail-oriented, analytical, and ready to grow within a progressive organisation committed to sustainability and innovation. If you’re studying towards ACCA or CIMA, or have solid experience in finance, we’d love to hear from you!

• This is a 12-14 month FTC maternity cover
• Remote with occasional travel to one of our 4 sites (Milton Keynes, Cambridge, York and the Isle of Wight)

The Role:

• Assisting in the preparation of monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy and meeting deadlines.
• Performing detailed reconciliation work to ensure revenue and costs are correctly accounted for.
• Preparing and posting accruals and prepayments.
• Supporting intercompany recharges and cost allocation, ensuring expenses are appropriately assigned to projects and departments.
• Assisting with annual budgets, forecast preparation, and cashflow reporting.
• Supporting the treasury function, ensuring timely processing and payment of transactions.
• Ensuring supplier invoices are approved, receipted, and paid on time.
• Assisting with sales invoice processing where needed.
• Supporting annual audit preparation and ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and internal policies.
• Collaborating with central teams to provide financial insights and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

What We’re Looking For:

Qualifications:

• Actively studying towards ACCA or CIMA OR qualified by experience.

Skills:

• Strong understanding of debits, credits, and cost allocation principles.
• Familiarity with accounting systems (SAP experience is a plus).
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines with accuracy.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills.
• Clear communication skills to explain financial information to non-financial stakeholders.

Experience:

• Experience in transactional finance and treasury management.
• Background in reconciliation work and variance analysis is advantageous.
• Experience working to tight deadlines while maintaining high-quality outputs.
• Previous involvement in audit preparation is desirable.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• A detail-oriented, proactive, and adaptable approach to work.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, working across various teams and levels.
• A continuous improvement mindset with the motivation to drive positive change.
• A solid grasp of accounting practices, reporting standards, and reconciliation processes.

Our Business
At Thalia Waste Management, we are creating a future to be proud of. We think differently, questioning everything, enabling us to develop progressive waste into energy solutions and services. Being motivated, tackling problems together, inspiring others to take responsibility, making a difference, being ambitious and contributing value.
We operate the best technology available across our four strategic sites in North Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight. Our technology includes everything from mechanical and biological treatment, traditional mass-burn energy from waste and material recycling technologies to in-vessel composting, advanced thermal treatment, innovative small-scale energy from waste and anaerobic digestion. In a single year we process 300,000 tonnes of waste that is turned into energy. This generates the same amount of energy as approximately 600 million solar panels. Similarly, we recycle circa 95,000 tonnes of waste.

Inclusion
At Thalia Waste Management, we work hard to make sure we are an inclusive and diverse place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV, we’re focused on who you are, your skills and passion that can be brought to Thalia Waste Management. We know and understand that everyone is different and has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working and any adjustments that could be needed! We’ll do all that we can to support everyone from their first contact with us. For any support or adjustments needed through our recruitment process, please speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. As a Disability Confident Employer, we will make sure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.