Management Accountant

Anglian Water Services; Huntingdon; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal private health care

Generous pension

26 days annual leave

Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)

Private medical / GP service

Job summary

Anglian Water Services is seeking a Management Accountant to join our finance team in Huntingdon/Peterborough. You will deliver budgets, forecasts and financial insight to support business decisions, aligning with financial controls and processes.

You will report to the Finance Manager and contribute to management accounting across the business area, ensuring accurate actuals, forecasts, and budgets, with a focus on OPEX and CAPEX and value delivery in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Part-qualified finance professional (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) or equivalent experience.
• Experience producing actuals, forecasts and budgets.
• Experience with management accounting.
• Knowledge of financial controls and processes.
• Experience with Power BI, SAP analysis or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Produce financial budgets and forecasts for your designated business area.
• Act as single point of contact for budget holders for provision of financial data.
• Work with the team to ensure milestones and budget objectives are in the timetable.
• Drive standardised improvements in the budgeting process and ensure forecasts reflect risk and opportunity.

Skills

Management accounting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Financial controls

Education

Part-Qualified Finance professional (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) or equivalent experience

Tools

Power BI

SAP analysis

Reporting applications

Job description

Management Accountant
Circa £43,344 dependent on skills and experience
Permanent, full time (37 hours) with potential flexible working options
Huntingdon / Peterborough

Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team!

Reporting into the Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving financial planning, performance, and decision-making across your business area. You will be delivering high-quality financial insight, budgeting and forecasting, and commercial support that enables informed decision-making in a complex and regulated environment. You will be accountable for delivering accurate actuals, forecasts, and budgets for both the area you support and other areas within the remit of the Finance Manager and your team.
You will be responsible for maintaining compliance with financial controls policy & procedure, escalation of control issues and communicating key financial controls messages across the virtual finance teams for your designated business area. You will deliver the business planning and management accounting processes for the designated business area for OPEX and CAPEX, driving continuous improvement of processes, communicating key messages and timescales to stakeholders. The budget areas you will be responsible will be of a mid-size and complexity.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for producing financial budgets and forecasts for your designated business area

• Single point of contact for assigned budget holders for provision of all financial data and information

• Working with your team and the Financial Controller, ensure key milestones and budget objectives are built into the timetable and plan

• Ensure compliance with the budget timetable and process

• Drive standardised continuous improvement in the budget process in conjunction with your team

• Deliver the forecasting process for the designated business area, challenge assumptions in the bottom up process and ensure forecasts reflect an appropriate balance of risk and opportunity

We invest in our people - as a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care

• Generous double match pension - contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%

• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household

• 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service and the ability to buy more

• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)

• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)

• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave. Opportunity for shared parental pay

• Bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

What does it take to be successful?

• Minimum Part-Qualified Finance professional (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) or equivalent experience

• Experience in managing stakeholders

• Experience in producing actuals, forecasts and budgets

• Experience with management accounting

• Experience of compliance with financial controls and processes

• Sound knowledge and understanding of, and application of financial reporting and analysis tools (e.g Power BI, SAP analysis and reporting applications) in providing high quality outputs

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we're committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 5th October 2026

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