Management Accountant

Our client a Blue Chip player in the Utilities Industry are looking for a Management accountant to join their team in Crawley (3 days a week in the office )– producing the monthly management accounts before delivering insights & analysis on financial performance – ensuring the business know & understand their numbers.

You should have experience in communicating complex financial data – ensuring our colleagues in the business understand drivers of financial performance and how we can optimise outputs.

Dimensions:

Support Finance is a team of 5 responsible for Business Partnering with 9 \”back-office\” directorates Sits within Finance Business Partnering team of 35.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Prepare monthly management accounts which represent company performance.
• Identify and investigate variances to plan and ensure these are communicated clearly, and understood by, the business.
• Deliver value-adding insights on performance to the business.
• Identify opportunities for improved efficiency
• Attendance & contribution to regular management meetings with senior figures from the business.
• Support the annual budget process – ensuring we have clear, achievable budgets linked to benefits and deliverables.

Qualifications/Skills:

• Qualified accountant, or near finalist (CIMA/ ACCA/ ACA)
• Translate complex financial data into value adding insights.
• Confidence to business partner across the business; including to senior figures/ SMT/ EMT.
• Advanced Excel skills (PivotTables, SUMIFs, XLOOKUPs) – ability to improve and automate repeat processes.
• Experience with SQL, PowerQuery, PowerBI & other AI tools is desirable but not essential.