Management Accountant

Equans UK & Ireland; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Hybrid working model

Employee networks access

Job summary

A leading energy services provider in Cambridge is looking for a Management Accountant. This full-time role involves producing accurate financial results, analyzing operational expenses, and supporting managers in decision-making. The position offers a hybrid working model with competitive salary and benefits. Candidates should be working towards or part-qualified in CIMA, ACA, or ACCA.

Qualifications

• Ability to analyze complex data.
• DBS Standard check – the ability to pass is essential.

Responsibilities

• Produce timely, accurate financial results for each service line.
• Present financial trends to enable informed decisions.
• Monitor and analyze operational expenses to recommend efficiencies.
• Prepare monthly service fee invoices.
• Support pricing for contractual variations.

Skills

Data analysis

Financial reporting

Education

Part-qualified in CIMA, ACA or ACCA

Job description

Overview

Equans is looking for a Management Accountant to join the team at Addenbrooke's Treatment Centre in Cambridge on a permanent basis. This is a full-time role working 40 hours per week. The role offers hybrid working with on-site 3 days per week. A competitive salary and benefits package is on offer.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for producing timely, accurate and compliant monthly financial results (P&L and balance sheet) for each service line within scope. Produce forecasting exercises (budgets and re-forecasts). Monitor, track and analyse operational expenses and recommend efficiencies where possible.
• Present meaningful trends and variance analysis to enable customers to make informed decisions. Provide internal and statutory audit justifications as required.
• Produce key financial indicators and analyse them to advise site management on optimising the Company’s position (e.g. supplier payments, debtor days).
• Prepare the monthly core service fee invoices and other invoices based on contractual information and operational records for non-core activity.
• Monitor and chase debt with clients to optimise cashflow in line with contractual arrangements.
• Evaluate and challenge—using appropriate data and analytics—the budgeting and operations of each site and service line: resource levels, performance versus output specifications and benchmarks.
• Support general managers to minimise performance penalties; analyse root causes and recommendations.
• Liaise with relevant staff to improve paper and cash flow, making suggestions where appropriate.
• Assist with analysing and auditing contractual compliance and risks to provide sound support to site management and ensure entitlement under contractual arrangements.
• Provide support to managers and business leaders when pricing contractual variations and tendering for new opportunities (pricing, modelling, etc.).
• Work with the Operational team to review the monthly Performance Management System to minimise risk to the business.
• Support the ongoing optimisation of our management systems and reporting suite to provide meaningful financial information to customers in the most effective way.
• Identify and generate improvement areas for implementation.

Qualifications

• Working towards or part-qualified in CIMA, ACA or ACCA.
• Ability to analyse complex data.
• DBS Standard check – the ability to pass is essential.

About us

Equans is a world leader in energy services with nearly 100,000 employees in more than 50 countries, and an annual turnover of over €17 billion.

In the UK & Ireland, Equans provides technical, FM, regeneration and energy services with specialist capabilities in smart buildings, green mobility, district and embedded energy, and decentralised renewables.

Equans’ 13,500 UK, Ireland employees combine these activities to help businesses, public sector organisations and government embrace the energy transition towards net zero, and the digital and industrial transitions that are redesigning the way we move, work and live.

Equans is a Bouygues group company.

What’s next?

If this role is of interest, please click below to register, apply and track your progress. A member of our Resourcing Team will review your application and be in touch.

As part of our commitment to reflecting the markets in which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

At Equans we’re committed to a culture where everyone's voice is heard and supported. Diversity and inclusion are at the core of what we do, and if you join Equans you’ll find a welcoming and open workplace where you’re supported and encouraged to be your true self at work.

You’ll also have access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility, Encompass, RISE, WOMEN TOGETHER, Working Parents, and Young Professionals.

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. We are not able to offer a relocation package with this job role. Some roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.

The Equans Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries should come to the resourcing team, not direct to Equans managers.