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Your new company My client is a public sector body that acts as an independent regulator withinHealthcare services Role OverviewThe Management Accountant will collaborate with senior managers and budget holders to provide financial guidance and support to specific directorates. This role involves budgeting, monitoring, and reporting financial performance. The position is due to the organisation implementing a new ERP system.Main Responsibilities Budget Preparation: Work closely with one or more specific directorates to prepare the annual budget, identifying efficiencies and cost-saving opportunities. Monthly Management Accounts: Prepare monthly management accounts, including journal postings, variance analysis, and forecasting full-year performance. Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with designated directorate budget holders, discussing financial performance and strategies to align spending with the budget. Investment Support: Assist budget holders in preparing bids for further investment through the "Gateway" process. This may involve costing, savings identification, and alternative option appraisal. Ad Hoc Reporting: Provide additional support as needed, including preparing ad hoc reports for Budget Managers and the Assistant Director of Finance. Year-End Accounts: Contribute to the compilation of year-end statutory accounts and support external audits of financial statements. Continuous Improvement: Collaborate with the management accounts team and wider finance to identify process efficiencies and improvements. Balance Sheet Reconciliation: Perform balance sheet reconciliations and reviews as assigned. Safeguarding Awareness: Understand and apply safeguarding policies and processes to protect children and adults at risk. Sustainability Commitment: Support the organization's sustainability aims and a net-zero plan where appropriate. Other Duties: Undertake any reasonable duties assigned from time to time. Person Specification (Essential Criteria) Management Accounting Experience: Demonstrated experience in management accounting, including annual budget production, re-forecasting, and monthly reporting. Interpersonal Skills: Ability to build positive relationships with budget holders and key stakeholders, influencing decisions and negotiating effectively. Financial Insight: Synthesise information from financial and non-financial sources to offer strategic advice and insights to budget holders. Familiarity with financial modelling and sensitivity analysis. Effective Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey financial information clearly to diverse audiences. Analytical Abilities: Proficient in analysing, interpreting, and articulating trends, variances, and cost drivers. Organisational Skills: Self-driven, able to prioritise workload, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality outputs with attention to detail. Collaborative Approach: Work proactively as an individual or part of a team to support the wider organisation. Professional Qualification: Full membership of a recognised accounting body within the UK. Excel Proficiency: Excellent knowledge of Excel, including pivot tables and formula manipulation for large data sets. Customer Service Focus: Demonstrate excellent customer service, ensuring internal and external needs are met positively. If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
Macildowie are partnering with a leading retail company who are currently seeking an experienced Management Accountant to join their finance team on a short term basis while they undergo recruitment of a permanent position (for the right candidate, this position could continue on a permanent basis). This position is based in Leicester and will require office presence (at least 4 days on-site). What you'll do: Production of timely and accurate monthly management accounts in line with reporting timetables. Prepare and post monthly journals relating to P&L and perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations. Assist the Finance Manager as required, including profit and loss variance analysis. Manage payment processes including rent, rates, service charge, and other such calculations, postings and reconciliations. Provide support for the annual budget-setting process. Support the quarterly VAT process, including reconciliations and VAT return. Aid in the preparation of annual statutory financial statements, including support schedules for year-end audit requirements. Communicate effectively with a broad range of finance and non-finance colleagues, both verbally and in writing. What you'll need: Ideally at least part-qualified ACA, ACCA, or ACMA. Significant experience in a similar accounting role with strong analytical skills and good understanding of accounting principles. Proficient Microsoft Office applications: Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and especially Excel Be comfortable handling large data sets, working with financial models within Excel. Good attention to detail, logical decision-making, and a hands-on, inquisitive approach. Well-organised and disciplined regarding meeting deadlines. Enthusiastic team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to adapt to change. If you are an immediately available, experienced Accountant looking for your next position, please apply directly or email me at and I will be in touch in due course. Please put your home postcode on your CV when applying. Our recruitment tech uses this to make sure your CV is reviewed by the relevant consultant, for the relevant job(s), in the relevant geography. Macildowie are a recruitment business working on behalf of a client to recruit this role. Your personal data may be forwarded to that client company as part of the application process. If you would like information on how we will process your data please go to our website (macildowie.com) and view our fair processing notices which are located at the bottom of the page under privacy policies. Within the fair processing notice for Candidates there is guidance on how to amend your contact preferences or exercise your rights relating to personal data. We can't provide direct links as email address and website urls within our job adverts are removed by some of the websites on which we advertise. Macildowie is a specialist recruitment consultancy with a rich history of enhancing the careers of professionals across the Midlands and the Northern Home Counties. We have an unrivalled understanding of the local market place and recruit for the majority of the region's premier employers. To search for all of our live jobs please visit us at macildowie.com.