Management Accountant

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• Role Type: Hybrid
• Fix Term Contract: 15 Months
• Job Overview

The Management Accountant will report to the Senior Finance Business Partner and is responsible for preparing accurate, timely and insightful financial information to support effective decision-making across the business.

The role plays a key part in month-end reporting, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and business partnering with operational and commercial teams.

Main Duties

• Management Accounting & Month-End Reporting – Prepare monthly management accounts, including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reporting, while completing month-end activities such as journals, accruals, prepayments and revenue recognition.
• Financial Analysis & Forecasting – Analyse financial performance against budgets, forecasts and prior year results, providing clear commentary on variances, risks, opportunities and business trends.
• Business Partnering & Commercial Support – Work closely with operational and commercial teams to provide financial insight, challenge assumptions and support effective decision-making and budget management.
• Project Performance & Cost Control – Monitor project, contract and departmental performance, identifying margin improvements, cost‑saving opportunities, process efficiencies and profitability enhancements.
• Financial Governance & Continuous Improvement – Maintain strong financial controls, ensure compliance with accounting standards, support audits, improve reporting processes and assist with the successful transition of ESM into Major Projects.
• What We Are Looking For
• Qualified Accountant – Newly qualified or qualified (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) with experience in management accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
• Financial Control & Compliance – Strong understanding of month‑end processes, balance sheet reconciliations, accounting principles, financial controls, CIS, VAT and tax compliance requirements.
• Analysis & Reporting Skills – Advanced Excel and financial modelling capabilities, with experience analysing large datasets and turning financial information into meaningful business insights.
• Stakeholder & Commercial Awareness – Confident communicator able to influence and support non‑finance stakeholders, with a proactive approach to identifying risks, opportunities and improvements.
• Industry & Systems Experience – Experience in working capital and cash flow forecasting, with project accounting or construction industry experience advantageous and SAP knowledge desirable.

Benefits & Perks

• We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household.

So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home.

We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme.

For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee.

Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

• When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices.

You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year.

You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost.

There are many choices!

• We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms and more through our Mi Deals platform.

And we have a cycle‑to‑work scheme.

Life cover of up to four times your salary is available.

We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

• We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work.

There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

• Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people.

Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us.

We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

• We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all.

If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Cory Ambler at cory. ambler@mitie. com.

• Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally.

We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

• Join our Mitie Team.
• Together our diversity makes us stronger.

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