Management Accountant

Choose a career with Balfour Beatty and feel the personal and
professional benefit of collaboration at work. We have a new opening
for a an enthusiastic Management Accountant to join our Enabling
Functions team to work in Newcastle office

Role Purpose.

To deliver and help drive the reporting of financial performance
including the preparation of primary and associated financial
statements, interpretation and analysis of variance to budget/forecast
and the effective management of underlying ledgers.

What you'll be doing

As a Management Accountant, you will:

* Be responsible for producing monthly management accounts including
profit and loss account, balance sheet, cash flows, variance
analysis, key performance indicators and supporting commentaries
in line with agreed SLA and reporting deadlines;

* Maintain management accounting processes and implement and
communicate any required changes;

* Provide supporting data and relevant analysis to the SBU teams to
aid decision making in an effective and timely manner;

* Ensure management and HY/FY fiscal reporting are fully reconciled
and aligned;

* Prepare, submit and review all consolidated HFM management
accounts for SBU and Group Finance review and sign off. Assist in
local management accounts reporting where directed.

Who we're looking for

You will:

* Be a qualified accountant (ACA / CIMA / ACCA or equivalent);

* Have intermediate/advanced experience with Ms Excel, Ms Power
Point and Ms Word;

* Have strong accounting experience with a sound understanding of
all management accounting disciplines;

* Have excellent understanding and working knowledge of accounting
and reporting systems including multi-currency ERP systems
(preferably Oracle), applicable legislation and the statutory and
regulatory framework;

* Have excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging
conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital
infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and
communities rely on