Management Accountant - Manchester, United Kingdom - KIER GROUP

Description

Management Accountant
We're looking for a Management Accountant to join our Kier Rail finance team based in Salford, Greater Manchester.

Location: Salford, Greater Manchester - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required

Business Area: Kier Transportation, Rail

Contract: Full Time, Permanent - flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know

What will your responsibilities be?

As a Management Accountant, you'll be working within the Rail finance team, supporting several Finance Managers to manage the budgets, drive contract efficiencies, recover costs and provide insightful and timely reporting to Senior Management. The position sits within the Transportation Finance Function. An important part of the role will be building a strong network around the finance, commercial, projects, admin and FSSC teams to support the Finance Managers with month end reporting and cost management.

Your day to day will include:

• Preparation of management accounts through to trial balance for the projects
• Support Finance Manager with construction of budgets, forecast and variance analysis.
• Preparing and posting the journals for accrued / deferred revenue, prepayments, accruals, fixed assets, and intercompany transactions.
• Prepare balance sheet account reconciliation for review.
• Managing cash recovery from the client ensuring projects adhering to monthly applications / third party invoicing
  What are we looking for?
  
  This role of Management Accountant is great for you if:
  • AAT, CIMA, ACCA, ACA, FCA or equivalent
  • Proficient in MS Office applications (particularly MS Excel).
  • In depth knowledge of Construction industry ideal
  • Understanding and experience in management accounting principles and budgeting
    We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
    
    Rewards and benefits
    We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
    
    Diversity and inclusion
    Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
    
    We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier