Management Accountant Senior

Hays PLC; Belfast; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Management Accountant

Your new company

This company is currently looking to recruit a Management Accounting Senior for their Belfast office. They are regarded as one of the most progressive and entrepreneurial professional services firms in the UK today, employing nearly 3,500 people in over 35 offices across the UK. The Management Accounting Senior is a key role within the management accounting team in Belfast, responsible for the delivery of high-quality outputs to our clients, assisting in the training and coaching of junior management accounting team members.

Your new role

You will be responsible for:

• Operational management accounting.
• Preparing management accounting information for final review, ensuring all work is accurate, timely, easy to follow, and informative.
• Consistently learning from review points in prior months, working to proactively incorporate previous review points into next month's output.
• Working within budgeted timeframes to deliver and highlight difficulties quickly to the Management Accounting Lead, consistently aiming to improve on budget.
• Applying technical accounting knowledge to work, highlighting concerns early and consulting with others for solutions.
• Assisting in ensuring effective controls are in place to maintain compliance with Tax and Accounting policies and procedures.
• Assisting in the development of 'standard' output working files that result in consistency across clients and become the 'gold standard' for Outsourcing.
• Developing your own skills, knowledge, and experience of management accounting and clients.
• Communication & meeting deadlines.
• Prioritising your workload effectively in order to meet month-end deadlines, identifying opportunities to front-load work where possible and reduce the effort at month-end.
• Using effective communication methods, both written and verbal, to ensure all stakeholders are kept fully informed of progress on service delivery, raising risks and issues on a timely basis.
• Building a strong reputation for delivering a quality, timely product, recognising that this is a key ingredient of future success with our internal clients.
• Building strong stakeholder relationships and being regarded as a 'trusted advisor'.

What you'll need to succeed

• Qualified accountant with 1+ years post qualification experience.
• Practice/audit background preferred.
• ERP experience (NetSuite, Oracle, Sage etc).
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong client service skills.
• Is resilient and can work calmly and effectively under pressure.
• Outstanding attention to detail and takes accountability for their own work.
• Can manage teams of junior staff to deliver on engagements.
• Strong team player.
• Experienced in relationship building, adapting their style to the situation, being flexible in understanding the needs of the client and how to deliver an outstanding client experience.
• Ability to recognise client issues quickly and proactively respond with a resolution.
• Has commercial acumen, understands the importance of budgets and corresponding fees, works in a way that helps ensure profitability targets are met.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary between £40,000 - £50,000
• Excellent benefits
• Great location
• Good working environment

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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