Job Reference: GRP/DP/18-07/1230
Job Title: Management Accountant
Location: Office Based Location: Ipswich
Hours per week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - 37.5 hours per week
Business Overview
Atalian Servest and OCS have merged to create a new organisation, the OCS Group UK & Ireland. We are a leading facilities management company providing a range of both standalone and integrated services including cleaning, catering, security, technical services, energy management and compliance, front of house, landscaping, logistics, waste management and pest control services. The company has a turnover of £1.5bn and operates across the UK and Ireland with 50,000 colleagues delivering innovative award-winning services to the private and public sectors and supporting the local communities in which it operates.
Role Overview
We are currently recruiting for a Management Accountant to join our passionate and driven team based at our Ipswich office.
To provide accurate and timely management accounts, forecasts and budgets for Corporate overhead business units, business partnering with the cost centre holder directors.
Your focus will be to deliver service excellence to all internal stakeholders and ensure that our timelines and strict key performance indicators are always adhered to. To ensure that accounting policies are adhered to in line with IFRS and group accounting policies. To seek continuous improvements to core finance processes and document procedures.
Benefits
- Informal hybrid/flexible working arrangements
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Free fruit in our offices
- Employee Referral Scheme (if you refer a successful candidate to one of our vacancies)
- Wide range of retail discounts
- Regular social and charity events are held in our offices
- Get involved in charity events in the local community
Wellbeing
- Discounted gym membership
- Eye test £25 voucher and up to £100 towards glasses
- Join our Cycle to Work scheme via salary sacrifice
- Access to "CHROMA", our internal colleague-led diversity and inclusion community – join a committee or take part in our D&I initiatives and events
- Access to internal Mental Health First Aiders
Career development and recognition
- Immediate access to "Opportunity" our internal Learning and Development platform
- Required professional membership fees paid for
- Opportunity to win monthly Atalian Servest Superstar Awards
- Long service awards
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the preparation of monthly management accounts and presentation of these to the heads of Corporate overhead departments, including variance analysis to budgets and forecasts.
- Challenging the cost centre owners to provide information when necessary. Making recommendations for areas of cost reduction.
- Completion of monthly accruals and prepayments combined with full supporting analysis and explanations.
- Production of monthly forecasts and producing a Budget for each department that you are made responsible for.
- Completion of balance sheet account reconciliations, ensuring any risks are identified and mitigated on a timely basis. Ensure robustness and completeness of financial records. To also encourage transparency with reporting to stakeholders.
- Support ongoing UK projects with monthly financial data, helping forecast future capitalisation costs and depreciation to assist project leaders.
- Identify ways to improve the quality and integrity of the data and processes, implement automation where feasible. Develop and improve procedures, adopting best practice for the industry and driving continuous process improvement.
- Add value to the central budget holders, becoming their "critical friend". Provide expert insight ensuring both costs are controlled and supporting with initiatives to drive business value.
- Respond to questions asked by OCS staff and other parties. To prepare for the year-end audit, to collate information, and liaise with external auditors as necessary.
- To provide collaborative support to Senior Finance management in their duties where required.
About You:
- Applicants must have the right to work in the UK
- ACCA, CIMA or ACA part-qualified or studying towards
- Experience communicating with senior stakeholders within a company, ability to communicate Financial issues and advice to Non-Finance heads.
- Able to demonstrate tangible examples of value add to central business functions.
- Excel knowledge including lookups and pivot tables.
- Previous knowledge of working with an ERP/accounting system preferably SAP/Microsoft dynamics.
How to apply
If you are interested to join a business that encourages professional development, career progression and the chance to work with inspirational people then please click apply!
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