Strategic Management Accountant — 12-Month Hybrid Role

Management Accountant | 12 Month Contract | Hybrid, Glasgow | Starting ASAP

Day Rate: DOE

About the Role:

You will support the Strategic Finance Planning and Analysis Manager with the full financial planning cycle. This includes coordinating, reviewing and submitting annual budget plans, ensuring allocations stay within approved funding limits, and ensuring any extra funding requests follow the correct approval process.

You will monitor and analyse the in-year budget position, challenging monthly submissions from Finance Managers and preparing information for regular meetings with Finance Business Partners. You will help deliver all management reporting requirements, including monthly budget updates, forecasts and contributions to formal budget reviews for senior leadership and external stakeholders. You will also deputise for the SFP&A Manager when required and provide line management support to the Assistant Management Accountant.

Key Responsibilities of the Role:

• Production of the monthly management accounts, including analysing, investigating and reporting on significant budgetary variances, advising on necessary remedial action and monitoring the implementation of these actions.
• Management of the annual financial planning process including coordinating submissions through Finance Business Partners and reviewing financial plans to ensure high quality budget setting and monitoring.
• Providing financial support and guidance throughout, including providing specialist advice on key strategic financial management areas such as risks and opportunities within budgeting and forecast outturns, financial planning and wider risk management, decision making, capital accounting and delegations.
• Preparing materials for client decision making through scenario planning and attending meetings with Finance Business Partners on a monthly/quarterly basis to understand the financial environment and identify then implement effective analysis requirements.
• Assisting with completion of the clients statutory accounts in accordance with the relevant IFRS accounting standards, policies and procedures. This includes assisting with completion of the asset notes and preparation of the financial performance disclosures.
• Completion of all regular financial submissions for Scottish Government, including reporting on the monthly corporate budget position and forecast outturn, preparation of the Autumn & Spring Budget revisions and budget profiling.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Membership of a recognised professional accountancy body e.g. ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA. Candidates in the final stages of becoming qualified with relevant financial experience will also be considered.
• Financial Experience: Experience of coordinating and managing budgets, with the ability to constructively analyse, scrutinise and challenge financial plans, including providing guidance and support to a wide range of staff in accordance with policy and procedures.
• Management Experience: Previous management experience within a Finance function with the ability to successfully manage people ensuring all tasks are completed within required timescales.
• Accountancy Experience: Experience in supporting the production of statutory accounts under IFRS, including preparation of supporting schedules.
• Technical Knowledge: Detailed understanding of a financial accounting system with the ability to interrogate and report effectively from the system and using Excel at an advanced level.

This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland.