Assistant Management Accountant

Active Care Group; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Tees Valley is seeking an Assistant Management Accountant to join their finance team. You'll be responsible for month-end accounts, management accounts and financial reporting. The role offers hybrid working and opportunities for training and development. Ideal candidates are AAT qualified and possess strong financial skills. Competitive benefits include 25 days of holiday and an Employee Assistance Programme.

Benefits

25 days plus bank holidays

Birthday off

Wide range of training and development opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Nest Personal Pension

Medicash Health Plan

Active Awards programme

Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Qualified AAT or equivalent and working towards Accounting qualification.
• Experience in an Assistant Management Accounting role or similar.
• Strong financial reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate month-end accounts are prepared.
• Prepare management accounts with KPIs.
• Support in budget preparation for assigned division.

Skills

Financial reporting skills

Intermediate/Advanced Excel skills

Attention to detail

Organized and structured

Team player and self-motivated

Good communication skills

Flexibility and adaptability

Education

Qualified AAT or equivalent

Tools

X3 / Sage Intacct

Job description

Overview

Come and join one of the UK's largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

We'd like you to join us as an Assistant Management Accountant to work in our finance team in Darlington. This role is hybrid, working 3 days in the Darlington office and 2 days at home.

The role will report into the Finance Transformation Director and you will be responsible for delivering accounting and reporting requirements within a specified division of the Active Care Group.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring that Regional and Divisional P&L and balance sheet amounts are accurately recorded in the month-end accounts on a timely basis, in particular:
• Ensuring that revenue, payroll and cost accrual/prepayment journals are posted accurately and on time.
• Ensuring that any billing issues are resolved appropriately with the commercial team.
• Ensuring main trading account bank reconciliations are prepared.
• Preparing accurate and insightful management accounts with appropriate KPIs; including revenue and margin analysis.
• Ensuring that all balance sheet accounts are reconciled in line with agreed timescales.
• Support in preparing budgets and forecasts for your assigned division, supporting the Commercial Finance team and the wider Group Finance teams.
• Ad hoc analysis and costings in support of your assigned division.
• Ensuring that new financial and operating systems are implemented appropriately to ensure that month-end processes are as automated as possible.
• Maintaining a continual focus on ensuring that information is presented in the most useful way possible and that any issues identified which would enable management to improve business performance are appropriately reported

Knowledge, Skills & Qualifications

• Qualified AAT or equivalent and working towards Accounting qualification (eg ACA, CIMA, ACCA).
• Strong financial reporting skills.
• Intermediate/Advanced Excel skills.
• Have a keen eye for detail.
• Organised and structured, ensuring all deadline are met.
• Able to work as part of a team and autonomously.
• Self-motivated.
• Good communicator with strong interpersonal skill and emotional intelligence.
• Being flexible, innovative, and adaptable at work to meet competing priorities.

Experience

• Experience in an Assistant Management Accounting accounting role or similar
• Experience of working in a fast paced and evolving team environment, private equity and / or healthcare an advantage.

Desirable

• Experience of using X3 / Sage Intacct
• Experience of integration and systems development a plus.
• Committed to continuous improvement.

Inclusivity

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident employer.

What to look forward to

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1000 by recommending someone you know
• and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group