Job Description
Finance Management Account
Permanent role – Starting salary £50,000
Hybrid working pattern – Currently 1 day a fortnight – but must be prepared to go into office when required.
Office based Outskirts of Glasgow – North East
Start date mid-January 2025
Must hold a relevant Accountancy Qualification, ACCA, AAT, CIMA, ICAS or ACA
We are looking for people with several years’ of experience in a similar role.
Role Overview We are seeking a highly motivated Management Accountant to join our client's Finance team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing clear and relevant financial information and analysis to the business teams, enabling them to track, understand, forecast, and control costs effectively. Your insights will help drive financial performance, support budgeting, and enhance control over project costs.
Key Responsibilities
Permanent role – Starting salary £50,000
Hybrid working pattern – Currently 1 day a fortnight – but must be prepared to go into office when required.
Office based Outskirts of Glasgow – North East
Start date mid-January 2025
Must hold a relevant Accountancy Qualification, ACCA, AAT, CIMA, ICAS or ACA
We are looking for people with several years’ of experience in a similar role.
Role Overview We are seeking a highly motivated Management Accountant to join our client's Finance team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing clear and relevant financial information and analysis to the business teams, enabling them to track, understand, forecast, and control costs effectively. Your insights will help drive financial performance, support budgeting, and enhance control over project costs.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide regular and ad-hoc financial reports tracking operating costs, ensuring critical financial information is communicated effectively to the business.
- Assist in setting financial performance targets, and contributing to business plans, annual budgets, and quarterly forecasts.
- Develop new tracking reports and analyses to strengthen control over project costs and improve the understanding of whole life costs.
- Innovate methods for capturing and presenting both financial and non-financial information, such as linking costs to specific activities and developing performance reports.
- Coach and support the business team on financial policies, processes, and controls, ensuring alignment across the organisation for effective financial management.
- Analyse cost data, identify cost drivers, and look for trends and correlations to produce actionable insights.
- Work closely with business teams to ensure financial objectives and targets are met while supporting ad-hoc improvement projects.
- Relevant accountancy qualification, in-progress studies, or equivalent ‘qualification by experience.’ Strong grasp of accounting principles and management accounting techniques.
- Ability to explain complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders, with confidence in challenging and influencing others, including senior team members.
- Experience in data analysis, transforming raw data into clear, actionable information. Ability to identify cost drivers and trends.
- Proficiency in Excel and knowledge of financial systems (such as Peoplesoft or equivalent).
- Strong collaborative skills, able to work effectively within a team and contribute to broader improvement projects.
- Experience in activity-based analysis of costs and/or implementing reporting tools (such as performance dashboards or scorecards) would be advantageous.
- Generous Paid Time Off: 38 days of holiday per year (including public holidays), with the option to purchase five additional days.
- Work-Life Balance: Embrace flexible working hours and a 35-hour workweek supporting your well-being and work-life balance.
- Paid Volunteering: Take paid time off to volunteer in your community.
