Senior Management Accountant

ACTIVATE GROUP LIMITED; Halifax; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK repair firm is seeking a Senior Management Accountant to oversee management accounts and provide finance support across its operations. The successful candidate will manage a team of Management Accountants, ensure timely production of financial reports, and drive process improvements. Candidates should be CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualified with a strong attention to detail and ability to manage resources effectively. This role can be performed from home, offering a competitive salary and benefits like generous holiday and health cash plan.

Benefits

33 days holiday

Health cash plan

Enhanced parental pay

Life assurance

Free breakfasts

Birthday surprise

Qualifications

• CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualified with relevant experience.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritize tasks.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the production of management accounts.
• Manage cash flow and resource effectively.
• Drive the continuous improvement of processes.

Skills

CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualified

Excellent attention to detail

Methodical approach to query resolution

High standard of accuracy

Ability to work under pressure

Good working knowledge of Sage 200

Intermediate MS Excel skills

Ability to prioritise workload

Willingness to learn

Education

CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualification

Tools

Sage 200

MS Excel

Job description

Job title: Senior Management Accountant

Department: Finance

Location: Home based

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Competitive

We’re looking for a Senior Management Accountant to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

Overall responsibility for the production of timely and accurate management accounts for the Activate Accident Repair Group and providing key finance business partnering support to the Bodyshop Managers of each of the sites. To manage the Management Accountants completing full and thorough reviews of the Management accounts packs for each site and ensuring the monthly meetings are taking place. Driving performance against set targets and providing strong leadership and direction to the team.

Key responsibilities

• Provide and review in full accurate monthly management accounts for all sites within Activate Accident Repair Group (AAR), including P&L analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, recommendations and commentaries. Presenting the results to the relevant business managers, CFO and CEO.
• Manage cash flow and resource effectively at all times.
• Working with budget holders to provide robust budgets and forecasts for AAR.
• Drive the continuous improvement of processes to improve efficiency and the control environment of AAR.
• Responsible for the year-end closing activities including audit and liaising with external auditor
• Providing support to the CFO and CEO where require
• Adhere to all relevant regulatory rules and guidance applicable to the role.
• Work with the business managers and hold monthly budget review meetings to produce budgets for AAR along with regular forecasts.
• Manage the Management Accountants for each site.

Skills and experience

• CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualified
• Excellent attention to detail
• A methodical approach to query resolution
• High standard of accuracy
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good working knowledge of Sage 200
• Intermediate MS Excel skills
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Willingness to learn and desire to improve current processes

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.