Management Accountant

Job description

Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your financial expertise in a complex public sector environment, supporting high-quality decision-making and stewardship of public funds?

As a Management Accountant, you will support key financial reporting processes, contributing to the monthly financial reporting and budget monitoring, enabling senior officials to make informed decisions based on timely and high-quality information.

• Provision of high quality monthly financial reports to required timescales, providing accurate, relevant and timely management information.
• Provide financial advice and assistance to stakeholders, and build and maintain effective working relationships with business areas including with the wider Scottish Government.
• Contribute to the completion and quality assurance of input to corporate financial exercises in accordance with corporate timetable. Ensuring working papers provide a full audit trail and are retained and easily accessible during the audit process.
• Providing assistance in updating the financial ledger for example performing monthly reconciliation’s and preparing and processing journal entries.
• Review budget monitoring returns, undertake the first check of forecasts, year to date actuals, and budget data, and ensure that explanations make sense and support the figures, challenging areas where more explanation is required.
• Assisting in the maintenance of overall financial control, to ensure the integrity of financial data on the ledger and the accuracy of the supporting systems and records.
• Ensuring adequate financial controls and clear audit trails are in place around accounting and reporting processes.
• Working flexibly across the team and shifting direction quickly to meet changing priorities and demands.