Management Accountant

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Ensure the management reporting and analysis is completed by workday 8 with all month end tasks completed in line with the close timetable, including Group consolidation
• Responsibility for preparing revenue and expense reports which involves department, contractual or project-specific analyses
• Provide financial analysis of the results such as variance analysis, margin analysis, overhead analysis and comparison against budget and/or forecast
• Troubleshoot financial results as required
• Identify risks to the forecast and outturn for the year
• Monitor actions to mitigate the risks and work with the business to track actions and implications
• Support managers and budget holders with clear and simple financial reporting, ensuring all managers have a true understanding of their budget and financial position
• Create clarity and simplicity for senior management by helping to systemise, centralise, automate and communicate accurate financial and business information to the relevant people in a simple, straightforward and interesting manner
• Help drive continuous improvement in management reporting
• Creation of the budget/forecast and production of budget holder reports
• Provide commercial support to the business such as investment appraisals
• Responsibility for the expenses and credit card entries to the accounts and making accruals as necessary
• Identifying amendment in provisions and working with the Financial Accountant to ensure accurate management decision making regarding these
• Identifying opportunities to improve the quality of the month end process alongside the Financial Accountant and Financial Controller
• Assisting with project work as assigned by the Financial Controller
• Supporting the Financial Controller with any other reporting requirements