Management Accountant

Management Accountant

Based in Watford, Hertfordshire, our client is a successful and recognisable multi-site company which is looking for a part qualified Assistant Management Accountant to join their team on a permanent basis.

This job would suit a part qualified ACCA/CIMA Accountant, looking to work collaboratively to provide proactive high quality, accurate and timely financial and commercial services to senior stakeholders and their supporting teams. The job will also involve engaging with non-finance and other external stakeholders to support effective and efficient contract management.

This is a well-known company that has been extremely successful in their field for over 100 years and have continuously progressed and entered new and exciting developments.

The successful individual will have good communication and presentation skills as well as excellent IT knowledge, especially using spreadsheets. The candidate must have good analytical ability and be able to challenge and evaluate effectively. The ability to motivate, engage and inspire as well as promote best practice is essential. The individual will have budgets/forecast and monthly accounting experience as well as external and internal reporting, pricing, contract management, project accounting experience.

Duties will include:

• Production of consolidated monthly management accounts and information
• Improve the financial performance of contracts, reviewing and reporting regularly on establishment, underspends, deferred income, deliverables and budget performance
• Assist with value added analysis to support decision making through effective proactive support and advice to budget holders
• Maintaining effective communication between finance and the division is a key responsibility within the role
• Preparation from primary information of management accounts for one or more of the group's associated businesses
• Responsibility for liaising with Budget Holders to manage transactional postings and database entries, including incorrectly coded invoices and establishment data and reporting
• Working with budget holders and other staff to develop and aid their understanding of agreed finance policies, procedures and requirements to enhance their ability to develop confidence and expertise to take greater ownership of delegated financial responsibilities.
• Support cost apportionment, working with budget holders to maintain accurate databases to ensure charges are allocated correctly
• Follow the agreed process to conduct quarterly contract reviews on all contracts with appropriate operational colleagues and ensuring that salesforce records are up to date and accurate

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Every application will receive a response as this is the recognised working practice at MRK Associates.

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