Senior Management Accountant

Description

The role supports to link together operational and financial information, ensuring that the prime books of account are reflective of all the activities of the business. You'll be instrumental in providing key support to the Head of Investment and Development Reporting to ensure robust delivery of analysis and commentary explaining monthly performance variances against Budgets and Forecasts, highlighting Risks and Opportunities, and supporting the business with reforecasting.

Reporting to our Head of Investment and Development Reporting, you'll ensure timely, accurate and comprehensive delivery of internal financial management accounts to senior management teams, telling the ‘story' of the results, giving insight into business performance, and helping to drive business decision-making.

• Providing challenge on numbers coming from Directorates across the business, working with teams to ensure commentary and associated analytics are concise with focus on key drivers and actionable insights
• Responsibility for management and delivery of SNG budget and forecasting process, ensuring instructions are clearly understood and deadlines met across the business, resolving issues arising promptly
• Acting as a trusted partner with SNG's management team, providing expert advice, opinion and challenge, and deputising for the Head of Investment and Development Reporting as required
• Being a Reporting Champion, providing a constant critical eye on SNG reporting and analytics to ensure standardised, streamlined and made consistent where possible
• Collaborating with both financial and non-financial staff to ensure the production and delivery of accurate management accounts, forecasts and budgets, along with all financial and non-financial metrics – including FTE, Value for Money, Development Handovers etc.
• Delivering robust analysis of actuals and forecast to senior management, ensuring the ‘story' of the business is conveyed and making recommendations for senior management
• Taking the lead to ensure that management accounts are prepared in a timely and accurate manner including variance analysis and commentary tailored for senior management teams

Requirements

Knowledge of Agresso Accounting system, Workday or Power BI would be advantageous but is not essential.

Are you an experienced Management Accountant with experience in FP&A?

• Have strong, clear working knowledge of processes and controls surrounding budgeting, forecasting and management account preparation, including detailed report writing and analysis
• Be highly numerate with strong IT skills, including MS Word and Excel
• Have a ‘continuous improvement' mindset, able to demonstrate a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Work well to deadlines, prioritising workloads effectively and adapt quickly to changing business needs, holding others to account where necessary
• Be able to take a holistic approach, with ability to see the bigger picture as well as working at a detailed level
• Have strong, clear working knowledge of management information report writing and design, including detailed variance analysis
• Have experience in presenting financial reports, data and insights clearly and confidently to non-finance stakeholders
• Presenting financial reports to senior management teams and key stakeholders, being able to explain complex financial concepts to non-financial colleagues
• Be an effective communicator with the ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders, providing advice and influencing at all levels

Benefits

If you would like the opportunity to make a real impact within our changing and growing organisation, we would love to hear from you!

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Management Accountant to join SNG on a fixed term contract for 12 months. Based from our office in either Basingstoke or Wembley, you'll combine office and home working in line with our hybrid approach.

• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
• Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
• 3 additional wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days
• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package

Training + Development

Interview process

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