Assistant Management Accountant

We are looking for a confident, ambitious and detail-focused Assistant Management Accountant to join our collaborative finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is looking to develop their technical accounting experience, broaden commercial understanding and build a strong long-term career in finance.

Working closely with the Group Financial Controller and Group Financial Systems Controller, you will support reporting for our key Group legal entities. You will gain hands-on experience across a broad range of finance activities, including month-end reporting, reconciliations, variance analysis, budgeting and forecasting, payroll accounting and audit.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities

• Support the preparation and delivery of accurate and timely monthly management accounts and management reporting
• Prepare monthly income and cost variance analysis to present to Group FC and Group FSC
• Assist with month-end processes, ensuring financial information is complete, accurate and delivered within agreed deadlines
• Assist with core payroll processes, including the preparation and submission of payroll change data and journals and completion of monthly reconciliations to Sage
• Prepare and review Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Assist with Internal and External Year End audit
• Liaising with other departments where required
• Support finance projects and other ad hoc activities as required

Education & Experience – Essential

• Currently studying towards a professional accounting qualification (Part-qualified ACCA / CIMA)
• 2-3 years’ relevant finance or management accounting experience
• Practical experience of management accounting and month-end processes
• Previous experience within financial services is desirable but not essential

Education & Experience – Desirable

• Working knowledge of Sage 200 / Sage Intacct
• Experience in implementing change or process improvement

Person Specification

• Highly motivated to complete the task in hand
• Planning and organisational skills with a high attention to detail and able to produce work with a high level of accuracy
• Effective communicator, articulate, confident and able to relate to and create trust with ease.
• A ‘hands on’ team player who is able to work with Integrity and understanding of care needed with sensitive information
• Client focused; looking after the interests of internal and external clients to ensure their requirements and expectations are met or exceeded.
• A person with commercial awareness and profit driven thinking
• Achievements and results drive; the desire to get things done well and the ability to set and meet challenging goals, create own measures of excellence and constantly seeking ways of improving performance
• Resilient; delivers a consistently high level of performance under pressure
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment whilst prioritising effectively and meeting deadlines when working under pressure
• A quick learner with good problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to task in hand
• Flexibility and energy to meet targets

What You Can Expect

You will gain valuable exposure, responsibility and hands-on experience while working alongside experienced finance professionals.

You’ll have the opportunity to learn from experience finance professionals, build relationships across the wider business and progressively take ownership of more complex work. With hybrid workings and 3 days a week in the office, you’ll get the flexibility of hybrid working without missing out on the team environment.

Study support can be offered following successful completion of probation, helping you take the next step towards becoming a full qualified accountant while gaining valuable practical experience alongside your studies.

If you’re ambitious, eager to learn and ready to invest in your accounting career, this could be the perfect next step.