Management Accountant

Sewell Wallis is delighted to be working with a Sheffield-based charitable organisation which is looking to recruit an immediately available Management Accountant, who will have the opportunity to pivot into a Finance Business Partner position. This is a full time, permanent role with hybrid working (2 days in the office)

For this Management Accountant role, we're looking for a part qualified or fully qualified accountant with sound stakeholder management skills who will be responsible for providing the first line of support and assistance with the monthly management accountants and the development of financial plans, analysis of the financial performance and forecasts for a key arm of the organisation, to provide high quality business insight to both support and influence strategic decision making.

What will you be doing?

• Provide impactful and effective finance business partnering to Budget Holders, the Senior Management and Executive Teams
• Deliver high quality business and financial analysis, with detailed outcomes and benefits, to identify and present coherent rationales for change, to support continued coordinated, consistent and effective delivery of services
• Work with the relevant stakeholders to timetable the production of the charity's monthly management accounts, the annual budgeting and in-year forecasting process that is aligned to business plans.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial management reporting, forecasting and analysis.
• Drive continuous customer experience improvement by simplifying and improving financial processes, to provide your collective internal and external customers, an efficient and effective finance experience
• Lead in ensuring that accrual, prepayment, deferred and accrued income balances, allocations and other financial transactions are correctly posted to the Sun Accounts ledger, with supporting reconciliations.
• Ensure the delivery of accurate and complete accounting information to strict month end close deadlines.
• Analyse, calculate and prepare detailed financial information, including breakdowns of accrual, prepayment, deferred and accrued income balances, liaising with the budgetholders where necessary.
• Maintain and develop accurate and timely reports, in collaboration with operational and finance teams, facilitating the measurement and monitoring of key areas of performance across the charity.

What skills are we looking for?

• Studying towards or Qualified Professional Accounting Qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• You'll be a management accountant, commercial finance manager or FBP and will have a strong background in analysis and presenting.
• Demonstrable, previous, extensive experience in a similar role
• Preparation of forecast and budget information

What's on offer?

• Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday (increasing by 1 day per year up to 30 days) + bank holidays
• Pension contributions matched up to 8%
• Life assurance 2 x basic salary
• Holiday purchase/sell scheme
• Flexible/hybrid working
• Cycle to work scheme/ Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal - access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts - you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

Send us your CV below or contact Lawrie Bacon for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.