Senior Management Accountant

Better places, thriving communities. In Marlowe (a MITIE Company) we specialise predominantly in Water Treatment and Water Hygiene all over the UK. It is therefore key that you have previously worked within a complex organisation with demonstrated experience to prioritise working towards tight deadlines, while responding to multiple stakeholders. The Water Division, that this role sits within, is our largest and most complex. It requires you to think quickly to a challenging month end process, assessing possible conflicting priorities, in order to achieve accurate financial information on time. Alongside this, it is most important that you have previously held a people management position, with the ability to guide your team (3 direct reports) through demanding deadlines, provide support and development suited to each individual.

Key Objectives & Responsibilities

• Team Support and Management
  • Ensure that your team are provided with all the information that they need to perform their role.
  • Identify each person's individual needs and requirements, providing appropriate support and advice.
  • Conduct monthly one-to-one meetings, ensuring that both you and your report discuss relevant performance.
  • Complete Performance Development Reviews, setting initial objectives, followed by progress reviews.
  • Be a confident line manager who can set a good example and guide their team to success.
  • Manage and monitor all types of absences, seeking additional support if needed.
  • Provide wider support to the other divisions Management Accountants, acting as one complete team.
  • Work with the rest of the finance departments to ensure feedback and updates are understood.
• Management Accounts Reporting And Review
  • Full responsibility of the team's delivery of accurate management accounts to deadline.
  • Review submissions feeding back to the team any amendments.
  • Providing timely updates on any deliverable changes with plenty of time for adoption.
  • Continuously review processes for efficiency and relevance.
  • Support with the provision of accurate Divisional and Group reporting and analysis.
  • Sign off monthly balance sheet commentary and analysis on trends.
  • Approve Risk and Opportunities each month.
  • Sign off the monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including the agreement of any adjustments required.
  • Build a strong working relationship with the Business Line Financial Controller.
  • Responsible for financial year end audit packs and liaising with auditors to ensure deliverables are met.
  • Provide all information to Group in relation to statutory reporting and review of draft statutory accounts.
  • Support the budgeting / forecasting process, by providing information and analysis.
  • Improve timing, content and accuracy of both financial and management reporting.
  • Maintain procedure and process documents, while seeking continuous improvements.
  • Ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, particularly across month-end.
  • Maintaining strong financial control and governance.
  • Supporting key transformation initiatives (IFS, SAP, entity reductions, MCS moving in).
  • Strengthening month-end processes and establishing robust post month-end reporting.
• Ad Hoc Supportive Tasks
  • Ability to step in for either the Head of Management Accounts or the BLFC as and when required.
  • Other ad hoc duties as required.

Key Performance Indicators

• Management accounts to be produced within a specific timeframe.
• Balance sheet reconciliations to be accurate.
• Board packs to be completed within a specific timeframe.

Key Skills / Qualifications

• Previous people management of a minimum of 2 years is essential.
• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA) with 5 years management accounts experience gained in industry.
• Strong organisational and analytical skills.
• Excel skill at advanced level.
• Questions and where appropriate challenges the status quo to ensure continuous improvement.
• Able to demonstrate flexibility by adapting work in line with changing priorities.
• Demonstrates team workings and willingness to help others.
• Knowledge of Sage 200 an advantage.

Benefits

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle. 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 MiDeals 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.

Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

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 Ritik Gupta at Ritik.Gupta@mitie.com.