Senior Management Accountant

Skanska UK Plc; Watford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project development and construction company is seeking a Senior Management Accountant to support the group finance manager. This role involves financial reporting, budgeting, compliance, and audit support, ensuring the financial integrity while developing strong business partnerships. Ideal candidates will demonstrate extensive experience in business partnering, have excellent Excel skills, and familiarity with accounting software like Oracle Fusion.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in business partnering is essential.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel with knowledge of formulae.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Support timely completion of monthly financial information.
• Line manager for the assistant accountant.
• Provide expert financial scrutiny as a business partner.

Skills

Business partnering

Microsoft Excel

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Self-motivation

Tools

Oracle Fusion

HFM

Job description

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

As the Senior management Accountant, you will support the group finance manager by overseeing financial reporting, budgeting, compliance, process improvements, and audit support to ensure accurate financial management and development of strong business partnerships.

What you’ll do:

• Support the group finance manager with the timely and accurate completion of monthly financial information for month end.
• Line manager for the assistant accountant – ensure that they are engaged and meeting or exceeding their goals and performance targets.
• Business Partner with a number of budget holders within Skanska UK, providing expert financial knowledge and scrutiny of financial information; whilst building and maintaining strong, credible relationships with the budget holders.
• Supporting of the preparation and coordination of the quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting cycle including reporting into HFM
• Produce, review and challenge financial performance on S&A, including forecasting and provide variance analysis.
• Integration of the reporting, budgeting of forecasting of legacy Operating Units into the central finance function.
• Ensure compliance of Skanska internal and international accounting financial policies and processes.
• Identify and drive improvements in processes and systems, identifying and mitigating risk.
• Completion and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, undertaking further review to minimise risks and maximise opportunities
• Support the external audit process and liaising with audit teams as necessary
• Participate and actively contribute to functional system and process improvement initiatives
• Assist in ad hoc financial analysis and reporting tasks as required by Group finance manager.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Demonstrable experience of business partnering
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills including working knowledge of formulae.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting computer systems (Oracle Fusion, and HFM)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated, self-starter, and committed individual with a track record of delivering high quality finance outputs.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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