Management Accountant/Junior Finance Manager

Management Accountant - Shepton Mallet - Perm - £30,000 - £35,000

**Role can be based from home 2-3 days per week**

About the role

This role is part of a Finance Team, which supports the needs of the Financial Services business within Capita Local Government. 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| Local Government Services

We are Capita, the UK's leading provider of business process management and integrated professional support service solutions. Through bespoke, quality solutions, we've helped countless organisations unlock value and maximise their potential. With access to our range of unique and diverse opportunities, offering real career advancement and progression, we can unlock your potential too.

Capita Local Government Services (LGS), a branch of Capita Business Services Ltd, specialises in providing support, advice and resources to local authorities throughout the UK. Our expertise lies in offering a portfolio of skills to guarantee the handling of a range of local authority services effectively and efficiently.

The Role & Responsibilities

The role of the Finance team is to provide strong financial support, management and robust challenge within the business, enabling the Cost Centre Managers to deliver their monthly Cost Centre information and reporting in a timely manner, help drive growth and improved profitability as well as aiding effective and efficient management of, and decision making across the business. The team will also ensure a strong financial control environment exists, and proactively support/police the adherence to Capita policies and procedures whilst encouraging continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities of the role are:

Financial Management and Reporting

• Drive monthly cost 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 Cost Centre Managers to drive growth, improved profitability, and operational resilience by utilisation and monitoring of appropriate KPI's, and other management information, and provide challenge thereof

• Assist with the annual Business Plan process helping Cost Centre Managers with the setting of stretching but achievable Business Plan forecasts

• Help assess, mitigate and manage business and financial risks

Other Responsibilities

• Provide financial support and guidance and training to Cost Centre Managers

• Ensure Capita Best Practice and standard systems, processes and procedures are in operation, ensuring compliance with Capita Policies and rules and proactively strive for continuous improvements

Key Skills/Experience

Essential

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

• At least part qualified in a recognised Professional Accountancy qualification such as CIMA/ACCA etc.,

• Strong Excel skills

• Attention to detail but also being able to see the "bigger picture"

• Team player with "hands on" approach

• Excellent Communication skills

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

Desirable

• SAP Experience

• Axiom Experience

What we hope you will do next

Capita operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions or trade union membership.

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Capita Resourcing welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of gender, race, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Capita Resourcing is a trading name of Capita Resourcing Ltd. Services offered are those of an Employment Agency and Employment Business. Applicants will be required to register with us.

If you are successful with your application, you will need complete Capita's vetting and screening checks. This will include, but not be limited to, Reference Checks, a Criminality Check, Financial Probity Check, Sanctions Check and Media Check.