Management Accountant

Orders of St. John Care Trust; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading not-for-profit care provider in the UK is seeking an Interim Management Accountant for a 6-month period in Lincoln. The role involves producing management accounts, analysis, and budget assistance in a supportive environment with strong career development opportunities. We offer competitive wages and attractive benefits, ensuring quality care for our residents.

Benefits

Contributory company pension scheme

Life assurance

25 days' holiday + Bank Holidays

Free parking

'My Rewards' scheme and Blue Light Card

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Produce monthly management accounts for budget holders.
• Review income and expenditure to ensure accurate posting.
• Provide variance analysis to Finance Managers.

Skills

Financial controls

Data manipulation

Reporting standards

Education

Recognised Accounting Qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Management Accountant

Management Accountant

We're one of the largest not for profit care provider in the UK, specialising in providing high quality, person-centred care for older people, in care homes and extra care housing nationwide.

At OSJCT we care about our residents and we care about each other. That means you'll enjoy great career development working for an expanding organisation. Because we're a not for profit trust, we invest every penny we make in the people who live in our homes and the people who work here too. This means better quality care and lovely homes for our residents, along with competitive wages and great training and development for our people.

We provide outstanding care, working closely with leading experts on dementia and elderly care. And we're currently modernising our portfolio of care homes - refurbishing our existing homes and moving into new, inspiring, contemporary care homes too.

As we expand nationwide, we need more people with the right mix of skills, passion and ambition to help us grow even more.

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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Location (Region)

Trust

Location (Site)

Eyre Court

Postcode

LN6 3LQ

Contract type

Permanent

Salary

£40000.00 per annum

No. of hours per week

37.50

Candidate Contact

Dawn Bennett

Job Description

Vacancy Closing Date:

20/06/2025, 23:55