Management Accountant at PTSG Access and Safety
Subdivision – Fall Arrest & Testing
Part of Finance
The Division – Finance
The Finance team at PTSG plays a vital role in ensuring financial stability, strategic planning, and compliance across all business functions. It is responsible for financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and supporting operational teams in making data-driven decisions. Working in Finance at PTSG means being part of a fast-paced, growing business where strong financial controls and accurate reporting are essential to our success. Group wide, PTSG is a fast paced and high growth business, employing over 2,300 people and consisting of five separate divisions, each containing a number of individual businesses.
You will be working alongside Operational Finance team members of other PTSG divisions (Business Access Specialists). Teamwork within the wider Finance teams across the PTSG business and cross functional working also expected as part of the role.
Job Overview:
The Management Accountant (Access and Safety division) has responsibility for the accurate and timely accounting of operational transactions for several Access and Safety division businesses within PTSG. This is a crucial finance role that will be part of the Group Finance team, working with senior operational staff and reporting to the divisional Finance Manager and Finance Director.
The role will primarily focus on ensuring accurate reporting of revenue, accrued income, materials, inventory and related direct costs to ensure that gross margin is accurately recorded in line with relevant accounting standards. Detailed financial analysis and reports will be produced on the profitability of each business.
Your job will include:
- Periodic accounting: to ensure income and costs recognised in accordance with accounting standards and ensure accrued / deferred income and costs captured correctly. Provision of relevant financial analysis on the profitability and efficiency of each business, including variance analysis of actual versus budget/forecast/ prior period. Within the Fall Arrest & Testing businesses there are high volume of low value transactions.
- Management Accounts: support on ensuring accurate reporting in management accounts including analysis and commentary of the financial result each period.
- Business Partnering: Work with and support Operational Teams in ensuring accurate business reporting and good operational/cost control. Involves reporting of financials to Operational teams.
- Revenue recognition: ensure that all revenue recognised is in line with relevant accounting standards and local group policies.
- Materials and direct costs: ensure all materials are booked in and out of inventory accurately and on a timely basis to ensure accurate costs on a job by job basis. Other direct costs should be allocated to specific jobs as well as being reviewed overall to ensure effective cost control.
- Balance sheet: Preparation of relevant balance sheets, including reconciliations and supporting documentation ensuring robust support is in place for each balance and reconciling items are cleared on a timely basis
- External audit: Support on the external audit by ensuring robust reconciliations and support is in place for areas, such as revenue recognition, accrued/deferred income/costs, stock counts and relevant accruals and prepayments.
- Stock counts: ensure that periodic stock counts are carried out in line with Group Policy to ensure that balance sheet position reflects physical stock on hand. Analyse any stock write offs to understand root cause issue
What PTSG will give to you:
* Free onsite parking
* Free refreshments with a friendly and sociable office environment
* An opportunity to progress and develop within the company
* 25 days annual holiday + bank holidays
* Eye care vouchers
* Referral bonus scheme
* Vivup health cash plan with discount on dental, health screening, gym discount, store discounts, specialist consultations and much more
* Hybrid working arrangements available (subject to business need/ probation etc)
Experience / Personal Attributes Required:
* Part or fully Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
* Good knowledge of accounting principles and their appropriate application
* Project/ construction/ job based accounting experience is advantageous
* Strong partnering skills with the ability to engage with and challenge operational staff
* Highly credible and able to quickly build effective working relationships
* Analytical, accurate and detailed
* Pragmatic and flexible in approach
* Self-starter and able to work autonomously
* Strong time management and the ability to prioritise
* System orientated with excellent IT skills and advanced Excel capabilities.
* Prior experience of Sage200 accounting software preferable
* Experience of working with operational and financial systems, in particular, linking of these to ensure complete and accurate financial reporting