Circa £50,000 - £55,000 Depending on skills and experience per annum
Full time/37 hrs a week/12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Location: Peterborough & Home Working
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you with the opportunity to combine working from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location would be Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough.
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We are seeking a passionate and skilled Management Accountant to join our team to help us deliver an exciting new SAP S4 Hana system successfully.
In this pivotal role, you will ensure compliance with financial controls policies and procedures, address control issues, and communicate crucial financial control messages across our finance teams. As the key point of contact for Business Partners and the Management Accounting Manager, you will champion standardisation, automation, efficiency, and compliance, while embracing opportunities for innovation and technological advancement. Join us and be a driving force in our financial success!
Alongside this, you will use your management accounting skills and accounting system expertise to ensure our new systems are fully tested, process changes identified and embedded within our ways of working.
As a valued employee you'll be entitled to:
- Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
- Personal private health care
- Annual bonus scheme
- 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
- Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
- Life Cover at 8x your salary
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
- Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
- Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks
- Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.
What you'll be doing:
- Execute month-end processes, including accruals, prepayments, and variance reviews.
- Ensure the accuracy of actual costs and compliance with financial control policies.
- Collaborate with business partners to review results, reflecting true business performance.
- Provide timely and accurate monthly reporting, offering insights into variances.
- Lead the forecasting process, challenging assumptions and balancing risks and opportunities.
- Manage control accounts, monitor performance, and report on issues.
- Ensure adherence to controls, processes, and policies across finance teams.
- Lead the budget process, integrating key milestones and objectives.
- Complete testing activities for SAP S4 Hana and ECC6 where required
- Identify and deliver process changes resulting from S4 Hana system implementation
- Update Policy and Procedure documents where required to adapt to business change
- Support the wider finance team through S4 go live activities and establish new business as usual ways of working
What does it take to be successful?
- Qualified Accountant or qualified by experience
- Excellent SAP skills and accounting system expertise are essential
- Management accounting experience
- Understanding & application of modern management accounting techniques
- Excellent analytical skills
- Understanding of relationship between financial and non-financial information
- Ability to communicate financial information to non-financial managers
- Ability to adapt and challenge
- Good self-organisation to support ability to hit deadlines
- Business acumen
- Excellent IT skills, particularly Excel and Word
Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we're committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.
Closing date: 07/07/2024
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