What you’ll be doing
as a Management Accountant
You will work across dynamic and complex portfolios, identifying process improvements, strengthening controls, and contributing to high-quality outputs for audit and regulatory reporting.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Leading the posting of Waste accrual journals and providing assurance and insightful commentary for the Home Counties region.
2. Supporting period-end close activities, including recording, reconciliation, and analysis in line with agreed timetables.
3. Performing reconciliations across key control data such as accruals, provisions, prepayments, inventory, and general ledger balances.
4. Preparing and reviewing journal entries, with a focus on automation and efficiency improvements.
5. Providing insight into financial results and key cost drivers to FP&A and Business Partnering teams.
6. Collaborating across finance teams to document, standardise, and improve processes
7. Supporting the preparation of audited financial statements and responding to external audit requests.
8. Preparing accounting papers and control documentation for internal and external audits
9. Contributing to regulatory accounting returns, including cost allocation across price controls and upstream services.
10. Ensuring compliance with accounting standards and internal control frameworks.
11. Identifying and resolving control weaknesses and process inefficiencies.
12. Supporting ad hoc financial analysis, business cases, and performance investigations.
You will also play a key role in the Chemicals end-to-end process, including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
Base location: Hybrid - Clearwater Court, Reading, with occasional travel to other sites as required.
Working pattern: 36 Hours, Monday to Friday
What you should bring to the role
Essential:
13. Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA) or qualified by experience.
14. Strong understanding of accounting principles and standards.
15. Excellent financial analysis and data manipulation skills.
16. Advanced Excel skills.
17. Ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines.
18. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
19. Experience working with auditors or within an audit environment.
20. Strong business partnering capability.
Desirable:
21. Experience with SAP and/or HFM.
22. Experience in utilities or construction sectors.
23. Regulatory reporting or audit experience.
What’s in it for you?
24. Competitive salary between £65,000 to £70,000 per annum, depending on experience.
25. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
26. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
27. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
28. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances - from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.