Management Accountant - Perm - £39K

Management Accountant - Perm - £39K - Ashfield


Perm
Up to £39K
Kirkby in Ashfield
37 hours
No hybrid
Working in an Academy
Required: Must only have 2 exams left on CIMA or ACCA Key responsibilities:

• To partner with a cohort of key stakeholders, providing insight and understanding to ensure their schools and the Trust meet the established financial objectives.
• To provide insight, and challenge the performance of schools and support functions identifying trends and opportunities for improvement.
• To improve the visibility of financial, commercial and operational performance during each financial period.
• To establish a common meeting structure with senior colleagues in schools to ensure that performance and variance against budget is understood.
• To support schools and the Trust through any financial systems changes and upgrades.
• To interact with non-financial colleagues, interpreting complicated information and analysis articulately.
• To build and manage relationships effectively and network productively to increase the performance of the finance function across the Trust.
• To complete regular reporting of financial performance, KPIs and associated commentary, supporting the Finance Manager to deliver timely, accurate and meaningful management accounts.
• Through accurate and timely monthly accounting provide assurance to the Finance Manager that income and expenditure are appropriately recognised and opportunities are not missed.
• To compile the management accounts on a monthly basis ensuring all reporting and reconciliations are produced accurately and in a format which will meet both internal and external audit requirements.
• To review the management accounts identifying risks and opportunities which may occur and work with the Finance Manager, Headteachers and schools to implement plans to address these.
• To deputise for the Finance Manager, ensuring all management and statutory accounting and returns are completed within internal and external timescales in their absence.
• To influence senior management across the Trust using financial insight and organisational knowledge.
• To manage own priorities effectively and ensure sufficient time is dedicated to the proactive identification of opportunities.
• To support the Finance Manager with the year-end external audit
• To support the Finance Manager with internal scrutiny and other internal audits which impact on Finance.
• To support the Finance Manager to draft budgets and reforecasts.
• To make use of regular benchmarking analysis and associated reports, highlighting variances to make financial improvements in schools.
• To support the Finance Manager with all aspects of compliance with the Academies Trust Handbook.
• To attend Senior Leadership Group Meetings and Governor meetings in the absence of the Finance Manager or as required.
• To coach, mentor, and guide team members to monitor and improve the quality and effectiveness of their work and support their development.
• To provide training on finance systems and procedures to staff across the Trust.
• To ensure that the highest standards of financial integrity are maintained.
• To deliver short term / one-off projects and activities as required by and to the standards and outcomes agreed with Finance Manager

An Enhanced DBS is required for this role (Client will provide)

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