Senior Management Accountant

The successful Senior Management Accountant will:

• Lead on the preparation, governance, and maintenance of the management accounts for Financial Services, ensuring accurate accounting records are produced and reported to key stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Review detailed managements accounts; provide in-depth analytical review, specifically comparing performance versus prior period & budget, with narrative and explanations of trends.
• Resolve and communicate reasons for key variances each month to the wider Finance team, senior management and other stakeholders.
• Have oversight and review of the preparation of the financial services weekly KPI reports.
• Analyse and communicate trends in weekly KPIs to senior stakeholders.
• Support on review production of FCA reporting requirements
• Be responsible for producing reporting packs for monthly committee meetings, including presenting key results and confidently explaining trends.
• Provide hands on support for establishing balance sheet control across the division, including regular detailed review of balance sheets with significant focus on material balances to identify balance sheet risks.
• Create a strong control environment across all areas on financial services finance, ensuring that there is 'one source of the truth' and that reports utilised are accurate and consistent.
• Develop and evolve month end reporting and analysis to better communicate financial performance to key stakeholders.
• Lead and be the key audit contact for the financial services audit process, including interim and year end coordination, and preparation of relevant technical papers.
• Support ongoing non-business as usual project work within the finance team as and when required, including projects relating to inventory financial management.
• Line manage a management accountant, encouraging learning and development, setting objectives, coaching, and providing constructive feedback through regular one-to-one meetings.