What's involved with this role: Management Accountant – Housing/Financial Services Reference no: ATR 5259921 Hybrid working Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. CIMA/ACCA /AAT qualified and/or significant demonstrable management accounts experience Experience of producing monthly management accounts, annual budgets and period forecasts. Experience in working alongside budget holders and directors. Experience of managing and leading a team / individual. Experience using accountancy software. Knowledge and understanding of accounting standards. Knowledge of the housing sector. The purpose of the role is to provide the best financial information and support for our development business and other internal and external stakeholders. Key Responsibilities: Production of monthly management and assisting with annual statutory accounts. Preparation of budgets and forecasts. Preparation of financial reports and liaison with budget holders and other stakeholders external to finance to discuss and review. Maintaining a good level of technical accounting knowledge to ensure that accounts are prepared correctly and in line with the relevant accounting standards. Ensure all reporting deadlines are met without exception. Manage workload, delivery and development of assistant management accountants. Balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with best practice. Journal processing, including ensuring the correct accounting of accruals and prepayments. Review of assistant management accounts work to ensure accuracy. Interrogation of financial systems to identify errors and make corrections. Variance analysis. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please