Management Accountant

Management Accountant

London

£35-40K + study support

About the role

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the Property and Asset Management Tower within Real Estate and Infrastructure division of Capita.

This role is part of the Finance Team, which supports the needs of the business, and is also linked to regional and national financial processes and procedures. The role of the team is to challenge the financial reporting and forecasting of the Business, ensuring strong financial controls and procedures are in place, but also provide support and advice to the Business via continual support to the operations teams.

About Capita

We are the UK's leading provider of business process management and integrated professional support service solutions, with 68,000 staff across the UK, Europe, South Africa and India. Our property and infrastructure business delivers solutions, reduces costs and enhances services for a wide range of clients. We work across central and local government as well as property developers, investors, occupiers, building contractors and a range of other commercial organisations. Property & Asset Management provides advice that supports our clients' business objectives covering the entire property life cycle. Our aim is to maximise the performance of built assets - delivering best value in terms of income, long-term asset valuation and 'fitness for purpose'

What you will do:

• Help shape contracts, ensure timely and accurate set up, capture and maintenance of core project data within SAP/Desktop, including change controls, enabling ongoing correct accounting for same

• Ensuring project income and cost to complete forecasts are challenged, updated and maintained on a monthly basis, in liaison with Project Managers and /or Profit Centre Managers

• Review of Work in Progress, ensuring accurate and timely issue of sales invoices

• Drive monthly /Profit Centre reviews, challenge performance and ensure integrity of monthly forecasts within the forecasting system (Axiom) whilst ensuring they are stretching but achievable

• Manage production of monthly management accounts within set deadlines, ensuring accurate reflection of financial performance and variances

• Help Profit Centre manager drive growth and improved profitability and operational resilience by utilisation and monitoring of appropriate KPI's and other management information and provide challenge thereof

• Robust review and challenge of WIP to ensure completion of income but also recoverability of the asset

• Manage the annual Business Plan process whilst helping Business Unit Manager/Profit Centre Managers with the setting of stretching but achievable Business Plan forecasts

Your experience will include:

• Ability to work independently of supervision and be proactive in all areas of the role.

• Part-qualified / finalist level, ACCA / CIMA

• Strong Excel skills

• Ideally Property and Facilities management experience

• Ideally SAP experience

• Team player with "hands on" approach

• Excellent Communication skills

• Ability to liaise with non-finance staff and at all levels

What's in it for you?

At Capita, training and development aren't optional extras: they're how we do our job. We will motivate you to perform at your peak, recognising your achievements and rewarding them appropriately. As well as a generous basic salary we also give you 23 day's holiday, company pension scheme and access to voluntary benefit options including; child care vouchers, life assurance, holiday buy and many more designed to suit your own personal lifestyle.

What we hope you will do next

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