Management Accountant Assistant

Our client in Letchworth Garden City are looking for a Management Accountant Assistant to progress through the business and pride themselves on opportunities they offer their people, who are passionate about improving and developing. They know that to build successful, creative teams they need a diverse workforce that can deliver new innovative ways of thinking.

Client Details

Our client has approximately 20,000 employees working in over 300 locations across the world. Based across various sectors including engineering, to interior design, to landscape architecture, and project economics, from initial project concept and planning through design, construction, and commissioning-begins at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. With a long-term commitment to the people and places they help, and have a unique ability to connect to projects on a personal level and advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.

Description

Management Accountant Assistant role duties:

Assisting in the monthly management accounts, periodic forecasting and annual budget.

You will be assisting in the Management Accounting team in the following duties:

Monthly reporting

• Prepare the monthly consolidated management accounts for submission to the executive team in accordance with group reporting deadlines.
• Develop and perform monthly analytical review on the P&L, including assessment of key ratios and other KPIs.
• Liaise with regional finance teams.
• Continually develop and improve the TM1 consolidation processes with the aim of improving efficiency and quality of the month end close.
• Maintain the management accounting consolidation procedures manual that includes support for all consolidation adjustments.
• Own the internal control system process relating to the management accounting aspects of the Group consolidation.
• Co-ordinate the monthly commentaries from divisions to compile a group commentary.
• Preparation of management accounts pack and commentary for submission to DK.

Budgets & forecasts

• Coordinate the group-wide annual budget and quarterly forecast process, including developing instructions and templates.
• Prepare the Group consolidated budget & forecast for submission to the executive team and the parent company in accordance with group reporting deadlines.
• Prepare divisional benchmarking to challenge assumptions used and ensure consistency around the group.
• Be instrumental in managing an effective management accounting structure for the group.
• Prepare additional analyses as required by the executive team.
• Responsible for forecasting, controlling and monitoring Group capital expenditure.
• Own the Group's internal controls systems process relating to the budget and forecasts.

Ad Hoc

• Maintenance of the Group Management Accounting procedures manuals.
• Provide assistance to the Group Reporting team with intercompany and monthly reporting duties where needed and applicable.
• Provide support to the Group Financial Controller, CFO and executive team as required.
• Assist and sense check numerical data for Business Case owners and CAPEX submissions.
• Support and cover for other team members

Profile

Essential as Management Accountant Assistant:

- At least 3 years accounting experience.
- Part-Qualified in ACCA or CIMA or be AAT qualified
- A working knowledge of and interest in management accounting principles.
- Experience of working in a multi-currency environment.
- Highly numerate and logical with excellent problem solving skills.
- Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy whilst working under pressure.
- Expert knowledge of and writing/editing reports using TM1.
- Excellent excel skills
- Able to deal with all levels of seniority within a multinational business.
- Committed to delivering quality results in a timely fashion.

Job Offer

On offer for the successful candidate will be:

A great & innovative business to join
A brilliant working environment
Study Support
25 days holiday
Private Health Care