Senior Management Accountant - 12 month FTC - Edinburgh

Are you an experienced management accountant?

W&A are partnering with a leading organisation in central Edinburgh to help source a Senior Management Accountant for a 12 months fixed term contract.

You’d be joining a future focused firm with a strong global presence to head up a team of three management accountants.

This is an excellent opportunity to work as a key contact for the business in a firm with a supportive and inclusive culture.

Role Profile:

• Responsible for preparing and posting accurate month end journals, ensuring all management accounting team deliverables are consistently met
• Prepare P&L Management accounts
• Preparing and distributing monthly overhead reports to budget holders, partnering and supporting the business to deliver desired financial performance against plan
• Liaising with global finance teams in a group oversight capacity
• Commercially analysing business unit performance against objectives
• Coordinating all monthly deliverables with the financial accounting team
• Ensuring the group chart of accounts is properly controlled and correctly maintained
• Providing requests and analysis as part of the year end statutory audit process
• Co-ordinate budget/forecast process with finance business partner
• Ownership of business services budget/forecast submission and review
• Supporting and advising the business and global finance teams during group annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting cycles and updating the planning software tools
• Working with the senior members of the departments to prepare budgets, report against budgets on a monthly basis and to develop the forecasting of costs
• Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders
• Ensure delegation and split of tasks between Management Accountants is appropriate
• Review of Management Accounting team outputs
• Support development of team members

About You:

• Qualified Accountant – ICAS, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or Equivalent
• Management accounting experience
• Proficient in MS Office applications (minimum of Excel and Word)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate at all levels
• Confident professional manner
• Strong analytical skills, retains and analyses complex information and concepts; great attention to detail
• Ability to develop good working relationships and act as translator for non-financial colleagues
• Strongly self-motivated and takes pride in work