Management Accountant - Central Government ALB

Are you an interim Management Accountant looking for their next role? MLC are delighted to be representing a role working for a newly formed Arm's Length body of a wider Central Government

About the role:

The role of the Management Accountant is to assist Senior Management in budgetary control and take responsibility for monthly management accounts:

• Co-ordination of budget and quarterly forecast information from all budget holders
• Prepare and distribute monthly salary reports to budget holders
• Review trends, analyse variances and highlight risk and problem areas to the Finance Business Partners
• Post all fixed asset journals, reconciling relevant balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis
• PO invoicing
• Prepare the quarterly VAT return
• Business partner the Maintenance, Compliance and Property teams, reconciling and proactively improve reporting and forecasting

About you:

• Enthusiastic, positive and collaborative attitude and desire to work as part of a team
• Advanced excel proficiency, and problem solving abilities
• Excellent transactional processing knowledge gained within a finance operational or systems role
• Strong financial and analytical background with excellent financial modelling and excel experience
• Desirable experience in posting journals, general ledger and balance sheet reconciliation
• High attention to detail, time management and ability to manage own workload
• Part or QBE or fully qualified accountant