Management Accountant

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the Financial Controller to deliver accurate, insightful and timely managements information for the Board, site heads and central service department heads
• Provide business partnering support to site heads to drive business improvement
• Review and ownership of relevant nominal ledger reconciliations
• Review accounts against budget/forecast, explaining variances
• Driving automation, process improvement and audit of internal systems and procedures
• Develop and maintain the group fixed asset register
• Support the year-end audit process and any due diligence processes
• Work with the Financial Controller to manage and develop the two Assistant Accountants in the department in the production of financial information
• Own and develop Hesley Group’s financial forecasting model maintained in Excel, ensuring all output is accurate and error free
• Work with the Financial Controller on the production of information to support annual fee increases
• Work with the Finance Director on the development of financial models to assess new sites and M&A opportunities
• Support the Financial Controller and Finance Director on ad hoc projects as and when they occur

Qualifications:

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent
• Hold an accounting qualification e.g CIMA/ACCA

Required Knowledge:

• Detailed Knowledge of financial statements
• Knowledge of UK GAAP.
• Proficient in use of Excel; pivot and look up tables and building financial models

Personal Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter with ability to work on own initiative to tight deadline
• Organised approach to work and able to prioritise with conflicting demands
• Highly numerate with strong attention to detail