Assistant Management Accountant

Wates; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading family-owned company as an Assistant Management Accountant, where you will play a pivotal role in supporting financial activities. This position offers a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills in a collaborative environment, focusing on financial reporting, cost management, and cash flow forecasting. With a commitment to sustainability and community, this company values its employees and offers extensive benefits, including flexible working arrangements and a strong focus on career progression. Be part of a team that is dedicated to reimagining places for people to thrive.

Benefits

Competitive salary & Profit Share

Flexible working

Travel covered to sites

Private Medical

Pension 8% employers' contribution

Health and Wellness programme

26 days holidays + bank holidays

Learning and development activities

Industry leading family leave benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role/environment is essential.
• Undertaking an accountancy qualification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Process monthly cost recharges and manage overhead costs.
• Prepare monthly contract forecasts and production of management reports.

Skills

Excel

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Education

Accountancy qualification

Tools

Power BI

Job description

The Vacancy

ASSISTANT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT

We currently have a vacancy for an Assistant Management Accountant to join our Wates Group Finance team, to support a range of activities within Group Finance.

We are looking for you to have worked in a similar role/environment and ideally be undertaking an accountancy qualification. You will also be competent using Excel (Power BI would be an advantage) with good attention to detail and able to work to tight deadlines.

To be successful in the role as an Assistant Management Accountant, you will be a team player with excellent communications skills to effectively maintain internal and external relationships.

Key accountabilities for this role as an Assistant Management Accountant will include:

• Process monthly cost recharges across contracts and overheads
• Manage overhead costs; post month end prepayments, accruals, and late contract costs, summarising the monthly and year to date spend against budget
• Update of fortnightly cashflow model for all cash account movements. Explanations of variances between actual and previous forecast where necessary. Update of forecast elements of monthly cashflow model
• Prepare monthly contract forecast and meet with contract teams
• Production of monthly cost packs for sales and marketing
• Production of weekly management reports for circulation to the business

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & Profit Share
• Flexible working - this role will be based in the Leatherhead office two/three days a week.
• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers' contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more...
• Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.
• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, 'reimagining places for people to thrive' and our three promises:

Thriving places - working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet - protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people - creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.