Management Accountant

The Orders of St John Care Trust; Lincoln; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care trust in Lincoln is seeking an Interim Management Accountant for a 6-month role. The successful candidate will be responsible for producing management accounts, assisting with budgets, and conducting detailed financial analysis. This hybrid position offers competitive benefits including a pension scheme and life assurance, alongside the opportunity to work from home part of the week.

Benefits

Contributory company pension scheme

Life assurance

25 days’ holiday + Bank Holidays

Free parking

Discounts via 'My Rewards' scheme

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a large finance team.
• Able to prepare and present management accounts and budgets.
• Knowledge of current accounting standards.

Responsibilities

• Produce monthly management accounts for budget holders.
• Review income and expenditure monthly to ensure accuracy.
• Provide variance analysis to understand key business issues.

Skills

Accounting Qualification

Financial Controls

Microsoft Excel

Education

Recognised Accounting Qualification

Job description

Interim Management Accountant (6 months)

Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Salary: TBC

Hours of work: 37.5 hour per week, hybrid with minimum 2 days per week at Head Office location

About the role:

Responsible to the Finance Manager for producing management accounts, various cross regional responsibilities relating to analysis and reporting and assisting with budgets and forecasts and other ad-hoc analysis. Key accountabilities but not limited to are: Produce monthly management accounts for all budget holders in a timely and accurate manner. Undertake a full review of income and expenditure each month to ensure accurate posting and correct deferral of income as well as producing price volume variance analysis, ensure payroll hours and agency costs are accurately accrued and are in line with best practice accounting adopted by the Trust, ensure the I&E for each care setting and department reflect accurate costs and income, peer review journals to ensure Trust policy and best practice are adhered to and produce meaningful variance analysis which enables the Finance Managers and Finance Business Partners to understand key business issues.

About you:

• You will have a recognised Accounting Qualification or a Finalist with minimum 2 years’ experience in a large finance team.
• Be able to prepare and present management accounts, annual budgets and forecasts.
• Have knowledge of current accounting and reporting standards, as well as strong understanding of financial controls around journal posting.
• Computer literate – proficient in Microsoft Office including Excel to an advanced level (macros, pivots, SUMIF, VLOOKUPs, slicers) and comfortable manipulating high volumes of data.

About our Benefits

We operate a hybrid working policy where you must spend a minimum of 2-3 days in the office in Lincoln or one of our care homes and the remaining time can be worked from home. As a key member of the Finance, you can expect benefits such as:

• Contributory company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• 25 days’ holiday + Bank Holidays
• Free parking
• ‘My Rewards’ scheme and Blue Light Card giving you discount on shopping, holidays, cinema, dining, days out and much more

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