Management Accountant

Location: Cranfield

Our client has a temporary position, with strong potential to become permanent, for a Management Accountant. The role is full time, hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office.

You will need to be a Qualified Accountant, or expected to qualify this summer, with experience in a large complex organisation. Management experience is essentiial as you will be managing a small finance team. In addition, the role requires a strong accounting background, managing budgets, forecasting, month end processes, dealing with auditors.

You will be responsible for post award research, consultancy and large project accounting. This will include the production of all invoices and claims, preparing for and dealing with contract audits, reviewing contract progress and highlighting variances and issues. You will also assist with the financial budgeting and forecasting of research, consultancy and large project income and expenditure.

You will be responsible for ensuring that the staff reporting into this post are customer focused and that they follow the principals of “enabling”, “delivering” and “assuring” in their day-to-day duties.

You will be responsible for assisting in evaluating and updating the financial business processes with regards to research accounts monitoring and claims.

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant (or soon to fully qualify)

• Experience in a large complex organisation

• Staff management experience

• Use of large finance systems

• Significant experience of using Microsoft Excel to analyse and report on financial data

• Monitoring of performance against budget in relation to significant funding or contract monitoring or other similar

• Significant experience in budget setting, forecasting and variance analysis

• Ability to understand and implement terms and conditions for a variety of contracts, grants and agreements

• Strong technical knowledge on finance issues including an in depth understanding of accounting treatments for deferred and accrued income

• Ability to communicate and think outside the box to deliver customer requirements whilst still following relevant rules and regulations

• Excellent time management with the ability to work to strict deadlines and manage conflicting demands

• Advanced level Excel skills

• Excellent Microsoft skills in Word, PowerPoint and Outlook

• Good communication

• Ability to build relationships with staff and customers

Due to the large number of responses we receive it is not always possible to respond to every application straight away. Should your skills and experience be a match for this role, or any other vacancy we may have, we will normally contact you within 72 hours of receiving your application. If you wish to apply for further roles please do so