Our client, a Blue Chip player in the Utilities Industry, is looking for a Management Accountant to join their team in Crawley (3 days a week in the office) – producing the monthly management accounts before delivering insights & analysis on financial performance – ensuring the business knows & understands their numbers.

You should have experience in communicating complex financial data - ensuring our colleagues in the business understand drivers of financial performance and how we can optimise outputs.

Dimensions:

Support Finance is a team of 5 responsible for Business Partnering with 9 “back-office” directorates. It sits within the Finance Business Partnering team of 35.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Prepare monthly management accounts which represent company performance.
• Identify and investigate variances to plan and ensure these are communicated clearly, and understood by, the business.
• Deliver value-adding insights on performance to the business.
• Identify opportunities for improved efficiency.
• Attendance & contribution to regular management meetings with senior figures from the business.
• Support the annual budget process – ensuring we have clear, achievable budgets linked to benefits and deliverables.

Qualifications/Skills:

• Qualified accountant, or near finalist (CIMA/ ACCA/ ACA).
• Confidence to business partner across the business; including to senior figures/ SMT/ EMT.
• Advanced Excel skills (PivotTables, SUMIFs, XLOOKUPs) – ability to improve and automate repeat processes.
• Experience with SQL, PowerQuery, PowerBI & other AI tools is desirable but not essential.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.