Management Accountant

Motability Foundation; Harlow; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A charitable organization is seeking a Management Accountant to oversee financial reporting and budgeting processes. The ideal candidate will hold a CCAB qualification and have strong skills in data analytics and business partnering. This full-time, office-based role in Harlow offers a competitive salary and significant benefits, aimed at creating a supportive and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

26 days of holiday per year

Pension scheme up to 20%

Life Assurance

Private healthcare

Employee assistance programme

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Recognised CCAB Accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Experience with budget and forecast preparation.
• Some experience with Microsoft Power BI.
• Intermediate to advanced level of Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to communicate with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver collaborative annual planning and budgeting process.
• Produce monthly and quarterly management accounts.
• Engage with departments to develop existing reporting.
• Contribute to preparation of the Annual Report and Accounts.
• Provide high-quality data analytics to support decision-making.

Skills

Budgeting and forecasting

Financial reporting

Business partnering

Data analytics

Microsoft Excel

Communication skills

Education

CCAB Accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

Microsoft Power BI

Sage 200

Job description

Salary: up to £65,000, depending on experience.

Role: Management Accountant - Financial Reporting

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Location: Harlow, Essex. Easily commutable from London Liverpool Street or Tottenham Hale Station. We offer a free minibus service to/from Harlow Town Train Station as well as free parking and EV charging on site.

Extra Information: Full time office based role, after an initial period a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. Open to conversation on flexible and compressed working arrangements.

About the role:

You will act as subject matter expert to deliver a best-in-class business planning and budgeting process that leads us into delivering on our strategic plan.

You will be ensuring that management reporting and financial management tools are fit for purpose, contributing to cross-functional performance improvement and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and best value for the organisation. Engaging with Budget Holders and other stakeholders as a strategic partner to develop and maintain a consistent business partnering agenda through the year, providing financial insights that support high level decision making.

You will deliver and clearly communicate budgets, forecasts and periodic reporting using expert analysis to highlight variances and identify improvement opportunities. Once our analytics are in place, you will drive a large development agenda evaluating our impact measures and supporting incremental investment decisions between individual charitable programmes and between charitable programmes and social investments and financial returns.

What you will be doing:

Budgeting and Forecast

• Deliver a collaborative annual planning and budgeting process that ensures delivery of the business and financial strategy and re-forecasts as required.

Accounting and Performance Management:

• Produce monthly and quarterly management accounts to deadlines for review by the Head of Finance /CFO, identifying key variances and issues affecting financial performance, whilst looking for improvement opportunities.

• To deliver a periodic reporting process that is timely and accurate, engaging with heads of departments (budget holders) to build on and develop existing reporting.

• To contribute to the preparation of the Annual Report and Accounts and associated audit processes.

• To develop and deliver a suite of financial performance metrics in line with best practice. This will include development of cost allocation methodologies and balanced scorecard elements aligned to strategic reporting.

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Support the preparation of financial forecasts and scenario modelling.

• Engage with the Head of Finance and CFO to deliver a shared understanding of future incomes and expenditure and to introduce planning methods to rapidly flex the organisation to meet the uncertainties in such forecasts.

• Providing financial insights to support the preparation of business cases within the organisation for capital and revenue initiatives.

Financial Analysis

• To provide analysis of income, charitable expenditure, support, governance and other costs with meaningful commentary and trend analysis.

• Provide Motability with high quality data analytics and reporting that drive evidence-based decision making to maximise impact and value for money.

• Support any shift in operating model, so that Motability maintains clear sight of its impact and value for money.

• Support Motability in maintaining and improving an open and high performing culture focused on beneficiaries and the difference Motability can make for them.

Payroll:

• To contribute to the preparation and review of the monthly payroll, including starters and leavers, and statutory returns.

• To contribute to headcount and employment cost projections and modelling.

Your experience:

Must haves:

• Recognised CCAB Accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).

• Periodic reporting, budget and forecast preparation with variance analysis and commentary.

• Delivering a successful business partnering agenda for budget holders and non-finance staff with the ability to communicate key financial messages and influence management action.

• Some experience, or understanding, of Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, with the ability to build dashboards, manage certified datasets, and contribute to governed reporting environments.

• Sage 200 accounting package experience.

• Microsoft Excel – intermediate to advanced level.

• Able to work confidently with a range of senior stakeholders on operational and financial data to arrive at measures of impact whilst also able to support a new manager with their first budget.

• A collaborative working style, contributing to a culture of active learning and continuous improvement.

Nice to haves:

• Experience of charity fund accounting, grant accounting, partnerships and allocation mechanisms.

• Some exposure to value for money and impact studies.

• Preparation of financial business cases.

• Has experience of one or more ERP / ERM systems.

If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience, we'd still encourage you to apply.

Who are we?

We are building a future where all disabled people have the transport options to make the journeys they choose.

We fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year. We award grants to charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Why choose us?

We want working for the Motability Foundation to be the best career move you’ve ever made. When you join the Motability Foundation you will join a group of people who are supportive, innovative and motivated to improve the lives of our beneficiaries.

We value everyone’s unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves. This is embedded into our values, Collaborative, Respectful and Evolving.

We bring our people together through our People Forum, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Forum, Social Squad and our Wellbeing Champions and our employee Spotlight Awards help us recognise the excellence and dedication of our staff.

We are proud to be recognised as Disability Confident Leader, have attained Platinum Level Award for Investors in People and are members of the Business Disability Forum.

A career with Motability Foundation can offer you so much more than earning potential, we pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits. Some of these include:

• 26 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell up to five days.

• One wellbeing day for extra flexibility.

• Pension - Up to 20%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%.

• Life Assurance of four times your salary.

• Private healthcare with BUPA and Medicash Health Plan.

• Employee assistance programme including GP appointments, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and free Gym and Yoga sessions.

• Enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay.

• Free parking, electric charge points and a minibus service to and from the town centre and train station for those using public transport to reach us.

• Fresh fruit, breakfast snacks and a Dress for Your Day dress code.

• Learning and development opportunities, to encourage and empower everyone to grow.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, and we aim to be an employer of choice for candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing and when working with us, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

To help us create an inclusive workplace we are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Some of our roles attract a high volume of applications and in some circumstances, we may need to limit the number of interviews offered to disabled and non-disabled candidates.