Management Accountant
- Recruiter
- London Early Years Foundation
- Location
- City of Westminster, London (Greater)
- Salary
- £37,500 - £40,000 per annum
- Posted
- 28 Aug 2014
- Closes
- 28 Sep 2014
- Job Title
- Accountant
- Experience Levels
- Part Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
If you are a motivated and experienced Management Accountant, with a strong interest in Social Enterprise then maybe it's time you joined our team!
The London Early Years Foundation is a bold and entrepreneurial organisation aiming to double in size in the next three years striving towards its strategy to reach 5,000 children. To help secure its ambitions, we are currently recruiting for a Management Accountant to join our Central Office Team.
The successful candidate will be required to provide timely, accurate and compliant financial information to enable the organisation, at all levels, to take informed decisions in support of their strategic goals and to ensure it meets its statutory obligations with regard to information, confidentiality and security.
The essential criteria for this role includes:
- Professional qualifications: Newly qualified or Part qualified CIMA or ACCA
- 2-3 years’ experience ideally within an SME environment or within an autonomous division of a larger organisation.
- Knowledge of SORP 2005 Accounting and Reporting by Charities would be an advantage but is not essential.
Skills needed to meet the requirements of the role are:
- Analytical skills
- Ability to articulate, simply, the required outcomes of an activity or set of activities in terms of ‘what excellence looks like’
- Ability to motivate and engage line managers
- Strong influencing skills using a range of styles
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to focus on the right activities/drivers
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strong excel skills essential
Important personal qualities:
- Persistence and focus
- Bias towards action and achievement - including willingness to work to tight deadlines, including outside normal working hours if necessary
- Receptive to the ideas of others but able to make own decisions
- Emotional resilience
- Passion for excellence
To make a formal application, candidates will need to produce a specific covering letter attached with their CV with ‘MGTACC’ in the subject line.
** Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Successful candidates will be required to complete a full DBS check (cost met by employer).