Management Accountant

As the Management Accountant, you will play a critical role in shaping the financial landscape of our organisation. Reporting directly to the Head of Finance, you will oversee the production of and deliver the monthly Management Accounts pack, providing valuable insights into organizational performance. You will lead on ensuring compliance in our financial practices by managing annual financial audits.

This role will require you to collaborate with internal stakeholders to improve the financial health and effectiveness of the charity. This is an opportunity to be part of a friendly, integrative team with a passion for changing children’s lives.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare accurate, insightful and timely monthly management accounts.
• Analysing data and providing insights to support strategic decisions.
• Support Budgeting and forecasting
• Effective collaboration with internal stakeholders including CFO, Finance Business Partners and Business Units

Skills required:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with some post-qualification experience.
• Previous experience in a management accounting role, preferably within the charitable sector.
• Familiarity with SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice) for charities.
• Proficient in financial packages (Ideally Sage Intacct) and MS Excel.
• Great collaboration skills with stakeholders

   

Recruitment Process

As part of the application, you will need to answer some questions to support your application. Please do answer as thoroughly as you can as your answers will be used in the shortlisting process.

Closing date for applications: Midnight on the 3 July 2024

Interview date:

1st interview 8 July 2024

Second interview: 11 July 2024

Our Benefits

When you work at Place2Be –whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising –every role can make the difference to a young person.

To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support. Here’s just a few things we have on offer:

• Annual Leave that increases with service
• Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career
• 5% contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance of four times your annual salary
• A comprehensive employee assistance programme
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network)
• Wellbeing days to allow you some ‘you’ time
• Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave

We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organization.

Please note if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please apply asap.

Safeguarding the young people we support is our top priority. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and we therefore apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure all candidates are appropriate for the roles they apply for and are appropriately screened prior to appointment including DBS checks and social media background checks.