Job Description

Location
Greater Manchester


Company
The Growth Company


Contract type
Fixed term/ Full- time


Salary
Up to \xc2\xa331,200 per annum


Closing Date
27/11/2023


Ref No
3849

The Growth Company\xe2\x80\x99s (GC) finance team has an exciting new opportunity for a Management Accountant to provide a full and comprehensive finance and accounting function for legal entities and business units within the Growth Company Group, producing management accounts, VAT returns and other financial information whilst ensuring a rigorous control environment is maintained at all times. GC is an award-winning, accredited, social enterprise with a mission to enable growth, create jobs and improve lives. We deliver a range of services, working with customers and stakeholders to achieve our vision of a society where economic growth and prosperity is inclusive, sustainable and leaves no person or community behind. This is a 6-month Fixed Term Contract Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Senior Reporting Accountants to produce and review accurate, timely and relevant management accounts and other financial information to an agreed timetable, and to support the needs of the organisation as required.
• Provide appropriate supporting narrative and explanations of variances against forecast/budget to the operating unit and FP&A team to prompt key business decisions.
• Ensure the performance and review of robust balance sheet account reconciliations, and investigate and resolve all reconciling items with a sufficient audit trail and on a timely basis.
• Prepare and check weekly BACS runs for submission for payment.
• Load budget and forecast information into Unit4 to enable an analysis of actual performance against both budget and forecast profiles.
• Liaise with auditors during audit process to provide analysis of financial results and key control documents.
• Part of a team of Management Accountants who will work on various legal entity and business unit accounts within the Growth Group.
• The role involves collaborating with FP&A and operational managers on a regular basis to discuss results and financial issues within the companies they are responsible for.
• The post holder will be required to work with other Management Accountants to accurately reconcile all of the inter Group transactional activity. There is a high level of intercompany transactions across the Group.
• The post holder will be responsible for forecasting cash movements in their area, where appropriate, and be able to cover during absences of other MA\xe2\x80\x99s.

About you:

• Organised, flexible, strong personal communicator.
• Highly organised.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent time-management.

Requirements:

• 2-3 years as a management accountant, and have carried out management accounting, cash flow analysis and completion of control files.
• Knowledge of management and financial accounting and preferably working towards a recognised accounting qualification or similar.
• Knowledge of accounting accounting principles and public sector / Government programmes.
• Knowledge of excel spreadsheets and Unit4.

GC is committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from an ethnic community. As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the recruiting manager and our Internal recruitment team. We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We\xe2\x80\x99re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage. GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible. Should you apply for any of our roles, we will be completing interviews virtually or face to face, dependent on the role. This will be explained further should you reach interview stage. We will be more than happy to explain the measures we have put in place, ahead of you attending any of our premises. If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.