Management Accountant

Active Care Group; North East; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare provider in the UK is hiring a Management Accountant to join their Finance Team in Darlington. This full-time role offers a hybrid working model. The candidate should ideally have 2-3 years of management accounting experience and possess strong financial reporting skills. Key responsibilities include ensuring accurate financial reporting and preparing management accounts. Competitive benefits include training opportunities and a health plan.

Benefits

25 days plus bank holidays

Birthday off

Discounts via Active Reward App

Free Employee Assistance Programme

Nest Personal Pension account

Medicash Health Plan

Active Awards programme

Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Ideally 2-3 years post-qualification experience within audit or practice.
• Experience in management accounting role.
• Experience of working in a fast paced and evolving team environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Regional and Divisional P&L and balance sheet amounts are accurately recorded.
• Prepare accurate management accounts with appropriate KPIs.
• Support in preparing budgets and forecasts for assigned division.

Skills

Strong financial reporting / communication skills

Intermediate/Advanced Excel skills

Education

Accounting qualification, preferably ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent

Tools

Sage Intacct

Job description

Overview

Come and join one of the UK's largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Management Accountant to join our Finance Team working in Darlington. This is a full time position working hybrid, with a minimum of 3 days per week working in our Darlington office and 2 days working from home.

Active Care Group provides a shared service centre for Finance to support the national operations of the business that extends to 4 Divisions of activities which operate in various aspects of the Health Care sector. The shared services extend through Accounts Payable, Receivables / Collections and Management Accounting. The Management Accounting team has a range of Assistant Management Accountants, Management Accountants and a Senior Management Accountant.

The Management Accountant will be responsible for accounting and reporting within a specified Division of the Active Care Group. Primary reporting line is to the Senior Management Accountant, but also liaising with the Commercial / Business Finance team for the division.

What you'll be doing

• Ensuring that Regional and Divisional P&L and balance sheet amounts are accurately recorded in the month-end accounts on a timely basis, in particular:
• Ensuring that revenue, payroll and cost accrual/prepayment journals are posted accurately and on time.
• Ensuring that any billing issues are resolved appropriately with the commercial team.
• Ensuring main trading account bank reconciliations are prepared.
• Preparing accurate and insightful management accounts with appropriate KPIs; including revenue and margin analysis.
• Ensuring that all balance sheet accounts are reconciled in line with agreed timescales.
• Support in preparing budgets and forecasts for your assigned division, supporting the Commercial / Business Finance team and the wider Group and Shared Services Finance teams.
• Ad hoc analysis and costings in support of your assigned division.
• Ensuring that new financial and operating systems and processes are implemented appropriately to ensure that month-end processes are as automated as possible.

What you'll have

Experience:

• Ideally 2-3 years post-qualification experience within audit or practice
• Experience in management accounting role
• Experience of working in a fast paced and evolving team environment, private equity and / or healthcare an advantage.

Desirable:

• Experience of using Sage Intacct
• Experience of integration and systems development a plus.
• Committed to continuous improvement.

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

• Appropriate Accounting qualification, preferably ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent.
• Strong financial reporting / communication skills.
• Intermediate/Advanced Excel skills.

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident employer.

What to look forward to

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1000 by recommending someone you know