Senior Management Accountant

Cera; Colchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Cera is seeking a Senior Management Accountant to support its rapid growth in healthcare. The ideal candidate will oversee financial processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance with UK standards while working closely with management and auditors. This position offers hybrid working arrangements, competitive salary, and a pathway for career development within a thriving digital-first healthcare company.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Discretionary bonus

Flexible working hours

25 days holiday plus birthday off

Company pension scheme

Training and career development

Employee Assistance Programme

Refer a Friend scheme

Qualifications

• Experience with UK accounting standards is essential.

Responsibilities

• Oversee month-end processes and manage entity accounts.
• Assist external auditors with queries.
• Review monthly balance sheet reconciliations.

Skills

Producing management accounts

Coaching junior team members

Calculating judgemental accruals

Working with auditors

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Time management

Strong Excel skills

Education

Qualified accountant / finalist

Job description

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Cera is a digital-first healthcare-at-home company delivering care, nursing, telehealth and repeat prescription services in people’s homes via technology. In under five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly £250m revenues.

Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to 40 hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastest growing businesses in Europe.

Cera currently holds more than 160+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. Its technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.

Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed its recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers.

About the Role:

We are actively looking to hire a qualified or finalist ACCA / CIMA Management Accountant. The is an exciting and wide-ranging role that will be reporting directly into the Group Reporting Manager but will also work closely with the rest of the management accounts team, currently split between Colchester, London and Stafford.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing entity management accounts and branch P&Ls
• Reviewing non-NetSuite entities / branches
• Managing and overseeing the overall month-end process
• Dealing with external auditors and assisting with queries
• Working with the finance department and the wider business to ensure there are effective controls around the operational finance activities
• Reviewing monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Answering ad hoc queries for management / wider finance

Required Skills:

• Experience with producing management accounts inc variance analysis
• Ability to coach junior members of the team
• Experience of calculating judgemental accruals
• Experience of working with auditors to complete statutory audits
• Ability to work independently, and as part of wider team
• Ability to work under pressure
• Person who displays the right attitude coupled with the energy to execute.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment where priorities can change quickly.
• Good time management
• Strong Excel skills are critical (we love Excel in finance!)

Qualifications:

Qualified accountant / finalist with good knowledge of UK accounting standards

What we offer:

• Competitive salary, discretionary bonus and long term employee schemes
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working arrangements
• 25 days holiday + your birthday off as well as bank holidays
• Mobile phone, laptop and remote IT package setup for WFH days
• Company pension scheme
• Training and development for your role and future career development
• Lifeworks discount platform and Employee Assistance Programme
• Refer a Friend scheme
• Service and Recognition awards

We champion diversity, inclusion and well-being to create a workplace where you value yourself and feel proud of who you are. We believe in a world where you have the freedom to explore and express yourself without judgement, no matter who you are or where you’re from. Where individuality is a source of confidence, because difference makes the world a better place. People from cultural or gender diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Our team is made up of academics, innovators, start-up accelerators and care experts, all connected by a vision to build a better future for care through the combination of best-in-class carers, empowered by technology. The COVID-19 pandemic saw everybody at Cera shift to remote working, and now many of our people are currently using a hybrid working model. This role is envisaged as a hybrid role and such will involve regular time in the office working with the Colchester Finance Team.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Accounting and Financial Services

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