Senior Management Accountant

HF Trust; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Hft is seeking a Senior Management Accountant to join their team in Bristol. This hybrid role involves managing financial reports, leading a junior team member, and ensuring compliance with financial controls. Hft, a prominent charity, offers a supportive environment and various employee benefits, with a strong commitment to staff wellbeing.

Benefits

Access to 24/7 colleague counselling service

Financial support through Wagestream

33 days of holiday including bank holidays

Contributory pension scheme

Access to award-winning training

Qualifications

• Professional accountancy qualification required.
• Post qualification experience of preparing management accounts.
• Experience managing a team within the commercial sector.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate and timely financial reports and analysis.
• Manage billing and cash collection processes.
• Direct line management of a Junior Management Accountant.

Skills

Organisational skills

IT proficiency

Education

Professional accountancy qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Access finance systems

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Management Accountant to join our friendly and welcoming team here at Hft. This is your chance to make a real difference to people's lives.

Working Location: Hybrid Remote. Bristol Office Location & Home Working with a minimum of 1 day a week in the office location

Working Hours:Full time, 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday.

#Care to join us?

What will you be doing?

The Senior Management Accountant will have responsibility for the provision of accurate and timely financial reports & analysis for the designated business area/s.

Supporting the Finance Manager (Management Accounting) in ensuring that these business areas operate within an adequate financial control environment in compliance with the appropriate regulatory requirements including centrally determined financial accounting policies and delegated authority levels.

You will be responsible for ensuring that the organisation is properly reimbursed on a timely basis for the services it provides through management of the billing and cash collection processes.

The Senior Management Accountant will also be responsible for the direct line management of a Junior Management Accountant who will be assigned to the same Business Group.As such, you will be expected to recruit, grow and develop great people and build a great team.

About you

• You will have a professional accountancy qualification, such as an ACA, CIMA or ACCA.

• You will have strong IT knowledge, including demonstrable proficiency experience of using Microsoft office suite with the ability to produce reports and presentations within Excel, Word and PowerPoint

• You will have strong organisational skills and experience of line managing a team.

• You will havepost qualification experience of preparing management accounts, experience of working in the commercial sector and experience of using access finance systems.

What’s in it for you?

There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training, and lots of support along the way.

With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation, we are committed to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people to live the best life possible. As a ‘Gold’ standard Investors in People accredited employer, we are committed to supporting colleague wellbeing as a priority.

We offer:

• All Hft employees get access to the Telus Health – the world’s biggest 24/7 colleague counselling and support service. It is completely free for all colleagues to use in complete confidence, whenever and however they want to access it.
• Access to a range of discounts on your favourite brands through Telus Health
• Wagestream - allows colleagues to flexibly access their pay throughout the month and utilise a range of financial support, through its dedicated app
• Access to wellbeing services including Health checks, Digital GP and mental health support via Aviva Digicare + Workplace
• Access to award winning training and development – Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status
• Family friendly policies - We’ve introduced a range of family-friendly policies intended to make your life easier, including annualised hours, compressed hours, part time hours and term time only contracts.
• 33 days holidays (including 8 bank holidays)
• A contributory pension scheme & life assurance
• Discounted mobile phone contracts with Vodaphone
• Long service awards - Hft offers a monetary award after 10 years of service
• Free DBS check

About Hft

Hft is one of the largest charities in England and Wales supporting people with learning disabilities. We are passionate about what we do and we use our unique understanding of the challenges facing the people we support to speak up for them to bring about positive change. We have a rich 60-year heritage and a clear vision, we are ambitious and wholly committed to what we can achieve for the people we support and have embarked on a journey of transformation that will ensure we can meet their changing needs and extend our reach and impact.

Find your place with us and change lives.

Job Description and Person Specification

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.

Hft's usual terms and conditions apply. Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do. Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment.

We ask all our teams to take advantage of the Covid-19 vaccination, which is offered to frontline support workers as a priority group.We strongly encourage all colleagues to remain fully vaccinated as part of our wider infection control procedures.