Management Accountant

LegalAndGeneral; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Share schemes

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Healthcare plan

25 days holiday + entitlement to buy

Electric car scheme

Employee discounts

Job summary

Legal & General Affordable Homes is seeking a newly qualified Management Accountant to support financial reporting, controls, and informed decision-making across the business. You’ll play a key role in preparing management information, month-end activities and partnering with colleagues across the organisation.

You’ll contribute to budgeting, forecasting and governance, while assisting with statutory reporting and audits.

Qualifications

• A newly qualified accountant with ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification.
• Strong understanding of financial and management accounting principles.
• Experience preparing management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to work with detailed financial data.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines with a collaborative approach.
• Experience in housing/real estate or knowledge of COINS ERP is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Support month-end close activities and prepare journals, accruals, prepayments and other adjustments.
• Prepare monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and analysis.
• Analyse financial performance and highlight variances, risks and opportunities.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and wider business-planning activities.
• Maintain effective financial controls and governance processes.
• Assist with statutory accounts, tax, VAT, regulatory and lender reporting.
• Partner with operational and development teams to provide financial guidance and respond to queries.
• Support internal and external audits and help document and improve processes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Advanced Excel

Stakeholder management

Organisational skills

Problem solving

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Tools

COINS ERP

Job description

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

As part of the wider L&G Group, our heritage goes back over 180 years, with a solid reputation as one of the leading financial services groups. We are pioneering institutional investment into the housing sector, whilst providing excellent service and quality homes.

Focusing primarily on the Shared Ownership and affordable rent markets, we strive to be the UK’s leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes.

Job Description

We’re looking for a newly qualified Management Accountant to support accurate financial reporting, effective financial controls and informed decision-making across Legal & General Affordable Homes.

You’ll play an important role in preparing management information, supporting month-end activities and partnering with colleagues across the business. This is an opportunity to build your experience in a collaborative environment where attention to detail, sound judgement and continuous improvement are valued.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting month-end close activities and preparing journals, accruals, prepayments and other accounting adjustments
• Preparing monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and supporting analysis
• Analysing financial performance and highlighting key variances, risks and opportunities
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting and wider business-planning activities
• Maintaining effective financial controls and following agreed governance and approval processes
• Assisting with statutory accounts, tax, VAT, regulatory and lender reporting requirements
• Partnering with operational and development teams to provide clear financial guidance and respond to queries
• Supporting internal and external audits while helping to document and improve financial processes and controls

Who we’re looking for:

• A newly qualified accountant with an ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification
• A strong understanding of financial and management accounting principles
• Experience preparing management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations
• Advanced Excel skills and the confidence to work with detailed financial information
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills
• The ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines effectively
• A collaborative approach with clear communication and effective stakeholder-management skills
• Experience in housing, real estate, property development or asset management, or knowledge of an ERP system such as COINS, would be beneficial

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net-zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.