Senior Management Accountant

As a Senior Management Accountant you will be responsible for the integrity of the monthly financial close process, management accounting, balance sheet control and financial governance.

Within this role ensures accurate and timely financial reporting while maintaining a strong internal control environment. Alongside taking ownership of the month-end numbers and provide confidence to the wider stakeholders in the business around company performance.

Salary & Benefits

Our salaries are competitive within the finance market

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Hybrid working

We recognise the benefits that remote and flexible working brings.

We operate a hybrid working policy that allows our employees to balance time in the office and time from home. Each team within our organisation can decide how to implement this policy. If you have any questions after applying, please reach out to our recruitment team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the month-end, quarter-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accurate and timely preparation of management accounts.

• Review journals, accruals, prepayments and accounting entries, ensuring compliance with accounting policies and internal controls.

• Take full ownership of delivering group reporting, performance analysis, and actionable insights for senior leadership and stakeholders across the group.

• Work with FP&A to provide detailed analysis on performance and variances against budget and forecast, to help understand it’s main drivers.

• Balance Sheet Control: Own the balance sheet review process and ensure reconciliations are completed, reviewed and appropriately documented.

• Investigate and resolve reconciling items and accounting issues, driving improvements in balance sheet governance and transparency.

• Maintain a robust internal control framework and ensure compliance with finance policies and delegated authorities.

• Support internal and external audit requirements, monitor financial risks and implement corrective actions where required.

• Process & Systems: Improve efficiency and standardisation of accounting processes, supporting ERP, reporting and finance transformation initiatives.

• Develop and maintain accounting procedures and documentation.

• Manage and develop management accountants and finance analysts as applicable, promoting best practice financial control across the organisation, building capability and fostering a high-performance finance culture

What Success Looks Like

• Provide Month-end reporting delivered within set group deadlines

• Created 3 proposals around improving the month-end process & reporting

• Created 3 proposalsaround cost reduction in the business

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

• 7years+ post qualified experience

• Strong financial control and management accounting background.

• Experience leading month-end close processes.

• Strong balance sheet and reconciliation expertise.

• Knowledge of internal controls and audit requirements.

• Excellent attention to detail and process discipline.

• Management experience

• Ideally experience of working withing a large multi-entity or group environment

• Knowledge of ERP system Microsoft Business Central, Microsoft Power BI and IBM Cognos, or similar ERP/reporting tools.

About Us:
We are the tech company with people at heart.

At Advania, we believe in empowering people to create sustainable value through the clever use of technology. As one of Microsoft's leading partners in the UK, specialising in Azure, Security, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, we have a proven track record of success in delivering transformational IT services.

Our Selection Process:

We are committed to ensuring an equitable experience for all candidates, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Please do let us know if you’ll need any reasonable adjustments as part of the selection process by highlighting these on your application form.

As part of our commitment to our clients we will need to carry out background checks, including a criminal record check, for all offers of employment. If you have any unspent criminal convictions or questions about the screening process, please notify your recruiter once the application has been submitted.

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