Assistant Management Accountant

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too.
Join our team as a Assistant Management Accountant and you can build something to be proud of!
As an Assistant Management Accountant you will 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

• 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 decisionmaking 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 SBUand Group Finance review and sign off. Assist in local management accountsreporting where directed;
• Validate and upload all monthly actual results, budgets and forecasts to the Group consolidation and reporting model (HFM) in line with required deadlines;
• Work collaboratively as a key member of the Accounting Services ManagementTeam to ensure the execution of the strategic and operational objectives that apply to own area of internal reporting responsibility;
• Lead and/or contribute and support Projects as designated;
• Ensure compliance with all finance processes, controls and regulatory framework.
• Ensure areas which could potentially adversely affect the business are expediently highlighted to management and the Accounting Services Controls team;
• Proactively own and resolve issues including any business non-compliance through adopting a flexible approach and the creation of innovative solutions which maintain an acceptable balance between risk, reward, and compliance;
• Proactively identify improvements (through root cause analysis), making recommendations and successfully implement new ways of working – gaining the full support of stakeholders and colleagues alike;
• Help recruit, lead, manage, coach and appraise colleagues under own scope ofresponsibility. Ensure that all colleagues are motivated, develop and are led andmanaged effectively to meet the needs of stakeholders;
• Ensure the team always provide a high level of customer service to both internal and external stakeholders;
• Provide effective business partnering and relationship management,
• Primary point of contact with Heads of Departments, FC’s and FD’s;
• Provide general support to internal and external customers.

What you’ll be doing

• 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 decisionmaking 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 SBUand Group Finance review and sign off. Assist in local management accountsreporting where directed;
• Validate and upload all monthly actual results, budgets and forecasts to the Group consolidation and reporting model (HFM) in line with required deadlines;
• Work collaboratively as a key member of the Accounting Services ManagementTeam to ensure the execution of the strategic and operational objectives that apply to own area of internal reporting responsibility;
• Lead and/or contribute and support Projects as designated;
• Ensure compliance with all finance processes, controls and regulatory framework.
• Ensure areas which could potentially adversely affect the business are expediently highlighted to management and the Accounting Services Controls team;
• Proactively own and resolve issues including any business non-compliance through adopting a flexible approach and the creation of innovative solutions which maintain an acceptable balance between risk, reward, and compliance;
• Proactively identify improvements (through root cause analysis), making recommendations and successfully implement new ways of working – gaining the full support of stakeholders and colleagues alike;
• Help recruit, lead, manage, coach and appraise colleagues under own scope ofresponsibility. Ensure that all colleagues are motivated, develop and are led andmanaged effectively to meet the needs of stakeholders;
• Ensure the team always provide a high level of customer service to both internal and external stakeholders;
• Provide effective business partnering and relationship management,
• Primary point of contact with Heads of Departments, FC’s and FD’s;
• Provide general support to internal and external customers

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more