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.