Management Accountant

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

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Pension (double match)

Virtual GP

26 days annual leave

Life assurance

Personal accident cover

Maternity/adoption leave (26 weeks)

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking a Management Accountant to join the finance team in Huntingdon/Peterborough. You will be responsible for producing budgets, forecasts, and actuals, while providing commercial support and financial insight across your designated business area.

The role reports to the Finance Manager and focuses on driving performance within a regulated environment. Flexible working options may be available in addition to a 37-hour work week.

Qualifications

• 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
• Knowledge and use of financial reporting/analysis tools (Power BI, SAP) for high quality outputs

Responsibilities

• Produce financial budgets and forecasts for your designated business area
• Act as single point of contact for budget holders for all financial data
• Collaborate with the team and Finance Controller to plan milestones and timetable
• Ensure adherence to budget timetable and process
• Drive continuous improvement in the budget process with the team
• Deliver forecasts reflecting risk and opportunity for the area

Skills

Stakeholder management

Forecasting

Budgets

Actuals reporting

Financial analysis

Education

Part-Qualified Finance professional (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)

Tools

Power BI

SAP analysis and reporting

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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