Management Accountant

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities management company in Gloucester is looking for a Management Accountant to take ownership of monthly management accounts and reporting packs. This role involves preparing prepayments, accruals, and depreciation, while ensuring financial reports are accurate and delivered on time. Ideal candidates should have experience in management accounts preparation and data transformation. The company offers excellent benefits and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Access to virtual GP

Flexible lifestyle benefits platform

High street discounts

Cycle-to-work scheme

Enhanced pension contributions

Cash prizes through Mitie Stars

Qualifications

• Previous experience in management accounts preparation is essential.
• Proficiency in handling large volume data sets.
• Ability to thrive in a matrix organization.

Responsibilities

• Prepare prepayments, accruals, depreciation, and amortisation.
• Review P&L for variances and seek justification.
• Submit balance sheet analysis and commentary.

Skills

Management accounts preparation

Excel spreadsheet analysis

Data transformation

Reporting deadline adherence

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Job Overview

Management Accountant is to take ownership of their allocated entity and subsequent reporting within the deadlines set, whilst being supported by the Senior Management Accountant. Ensuring that information provided to the Financial Controllers and Senior finance members is accurate and any variances justified.

Main Duties

• Prepare and post prepayments, accruals, depreciation, and amortisation.
• Take ownership of your allocated entities' monthly management accounts and reporting packs submissions.
• Review the P&L for activity performed by others and seek justification for any variances.
• Ability to provide detailed excel spreadsheet analysis as and when required.
• Continuously ensure balance sheet working files are updated accordingly throughout the month end process.
• Deliver the provision of accurate Divisional and Group reporting and analysis.
• Complete Risk and Opportunities for BLFC sign off before submission.
• Submit balance sheet analysis and commentary to understand areas of concern and solutions.
• Produce the balance sheet control file with supporting back up in preparation for monthly sign off.
• Ability to remain focused and meet all reporting deadlines.
• Responsible for financial year end audit packs and liaising with auditors to ensure deliverables are met.
• Provide all information to Group in relation to statutory reporting and review of draft statutory accounts.
• Support the budgeting / forecasting process, by providing information and analysis.
• Improve timing, content and accuracy of both financial and management reporting.
• Maintain procedure and process documents, while seeking continuous improvements.
• Other ad hoc duties as required.

What we are looking for

The Water Division, that this role sits within is our largest and most complex. Therefore, it does require previous management accounts preparation involvement, alongside demonstratable experience of transforming large volume data sets into workable and meaningful information. You will also have the capability to thrive in a matrix organisation and finance structure and work to tight reporting deadlines.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Vikrant Verma at [e-mail].

Since 1987, Mitie’s 76,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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