Management Accountant
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United Kingdom - Manchester -
Job Description
With an established team in place the Management Accountant plays an integral part in the sourcing and delivery of commercial information to the senior management team. Once in role the candidate will report directly into the financial controller and will partner with a range of stakeholders across the group.
Further aspects of the role include:
- Lead on the delivery of the group monthly, quarterly, half & yearend management accounts.
- Take full ownership of forecasting & budgeting processes across the group.
- Deliver and interpret variance analysis for the group and present findings to executive team.
- Deliver and improve working processes and controls with a specific emphasis on forecasted v actual revenue.
- Manage, analyze and manipulate large volumes financial data in excel and deliver commercial MI to the executive team.
- Deliver and improve existing financial models within excel.
- Business partner with key budget holders to understand their requirements and present financial recommendations to them.
- Take ownership of the existing cost bases and deliver a strategy to keep costs low.
- Take a lead on various group process improvement projects.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Candidates wishing to apply for this role will be a CCAB qualified accountant with experience of working in a sizeable finance team. The candidate will have a proven track record in providing value add across the forecasting and budgeting process and liaising with a both finance and non-finance stakeholders. From a skills perspective the candidate must have strong excel skills as they will be manipulating large volumes of data and providing improvements across a number of financial models. Further to this they need to be a strong communicator as they will be delivering complex financial analysis and commentary to the executive team.