Job Role: Management Accountant

Location: Worcester

Hours: 35 hours per week Monday to Friday

As a Management Accountant, you will contribute to our vision of being the leader of residential real estate services in the UK by:

• Involved in the internal reporting and accounting for Innovus division within Emeria UK.
• Being a point of contact for financial integrity of the general ledger within the responsible entities, reconciling movements in the P&L and balance sheet to underlying data.
• This role reports to the Finance Director and has direct management of up to 2 employees.

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for producing management accounts on a monthly basis for your entities, including reconciliation of balance sheet.
• Prepare the monthly management accounts including the posting of prepayments, accruals and fixed assets. Ensuring the implications of postings are identified.
• Working with Business Partners to ensure the correct allocation / inclusion of information within the ledgers.
• Point of contact within the Management Accounting team for the Business Partners within the division to ensure queries and managed in a timely fashion.
• Responsible for month end reporting being completed on time, and that all transactions recorded are accurate, complete and verifiable.
• Maintenance of the bank reconciliations, ensuring all balances are investigated and cleared on a monthly basis. Processing payments where required.
• Responsible for balance sheet reporting, with reconciliations to underlying data and commentary to explain significant monthly movements.
• Challenge input teams, credit control and transactional finance, to ensure balances are inline with expectation.
• Maintain strong control framework, proposing updates for review with the Group accountants and Finance Director
• Ensure that transactions are recorded in line with relevant accounting standards.
• Assist the FP&A team with inputs for the budget and ad-hoc forecasts.
• Assist with the adherence to group accounting policies.
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency.
• Coach and provide guidance to direct and indirect reports and help progression within the team.
• Working with the Finance Manager and Business Partners on ad-hoc projects when required.

Experience

• Prior experience in a working in a management accounting reporting environment.
• Friendly professional manner, comfortable communicating with peers, other departments and external stakeholders.
• Inquisitive nature, keen problem solver, self-starter and sense of owning workstreams.
• Proactive and careful approach.
• Intermediate to advanced excel skills.
• Knowledge of Workday preferable.
• Excellent time management skills. Clear understanding of and ability to meet deadlines.

Personal Qualities

• Friendly professional manner, comfortable communicating with peers, other departments, and external stakeholders.
• Excellent time management skills. Clear understanding of and ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent team management skills,

The Benefits

Our customers deserve the best and the same applies to our people. We’ll support you with all of the technology, training and support that you need to do your job well. We offer competitive salaries and a range of benefit packages. In addition to the core benefits, we also offer a range of exclusive discounts on extra benefits to help you and your family make the most of your money, safeguard your future and look after your health.

Diversity

We’re committed to promoting diversity at FirstPort and recruit on merit. We will consider applications from job share applicants.

Ready to Apply?

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If you meet the criteria for the role we’ll be in touch to arrange a short telephone interview and our shortlist of candidates will be invited to attend interviews with the hiring manager and up to three other key stakeholders.