Assistant Management Accountant FTC in Chippenham

Are you someone who loves turning numbers into meaningful insights? Do you enjoy creating order, structure, and accuracy in a fast-paced environment? Are you looking for a role where your analysis directly supports strategic decision making? Here at GXO, we are recruiting for an Assistant Management Accountant on an 18-month FTC basis. In this role, you will take ownership of producing accurate and timely management accounts for our Support Functions, ensure strong balance sheet control, and play a key part in budgeting, forecasting, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will work closely with a Finance Business Partner and act as a trusted source of insight for senior leaders. This is an 18-month fixed term contract. The role is hybrid, with a requirement to work in our Chippenham office on a Tuesday & Wednesday each week. You will be working Monday to Friday, 09:00 till 17:00. However, some flexibility is required, this is logistics after all!

Pay, benefits and more: We are looking to offer a salary of up to £35,000, depending on experience, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme.

What you will do on a typical day:

• Producing monthly Support Function Management Accounts, complete with clear and insightful variance analysis
• Reconciling Support Function balance sheet accounts, resolving queries promptly and accurately
• Supporting the Budget and Forecast cycles, ensuring timely, high-quality submissions and updates
• Reviewing key overhead spend categories and providing data driven insights to support decision making
• Delivering ad hoc accounting support and proactively escalating issues where needed

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Experience completing monthly Management Accounts and preparing accounting packs including variance analysis
• Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence working with Finance Business Partners and functional leads
• A structured, organised approach with proven ability to meet deadlines
• Solid understanding of accounting principles and the ability to apply them accurately to transaction timing and treatment
• A continuous improvement mindset with a track record of identifying opportunities to enhance quality or efficiency

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains. GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team - energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.