JOB SUMMARY

Are you an organised individual who can work effectively while overseeing your teams’ activities/tasks?
Can you build strong working relationships with colleagues at all levels?
Do you have experience in a management accountant role or a financial role with transferrable skills?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport, providing multiple statutory functions as flag, port and coastal State and delivering international obligations for search and rescue, environmental protection and responding to major maritime incidents. The Finance function is a key enabler for the Agency to ensure we can deliver against this remit.
The Management Accounting team is part of the Strategic Finance team, sat within the Corporate Services Directorate. Strategic Finance is responsible for managing the medium-term financial plans of the Agency and ensuring that its c. £500m total budget is deployed in an efficient and value for money way.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it’s like working at MCA: Maritime and Coastguard Agency - Department for Transport Careers

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Management Accounting Manager’s purpose is to lead the management accounting team, take full ownership of month end activities and review financial reports to ensure they meet the needs of budget holders. Consolidate Directorate level reports, to provide an oversight of the financial position of the MCA as a whole. Working closely with MCA’s Finance Business Partners, to add valuable insight to monthly reporting and support them in their roles.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Leading the Management Accounting team, and providing effective team management.
• Taking ownership of month end activities and reporting, overseeing all month end activities and tasks, ensuring a smooth process.
• Ensuring the management accounting team delivers reporting activities in a timely manner and to the required standard.
• Collate monthly financial reporting for MCA’s budget managers, Executive Committee and the Department for Transport

• Lead the management accounting team to provide support for ad hoc finance tasks as required within the MCA.

  Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
  For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

WORKING HOURS, OFFICE ATTENDANCE AND TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week.
Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 30 hours per week.
This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.
The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.
If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).
Visa Sponsorship
Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. Therefore, this role is not open to applications from those who require sponsorship – candidates must ensure they have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualified or part qualified CCAB or equivalent or CIMA, with significant relevant experience in management accounting, budgeting and forecasting.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Leading the Management Accounting team, and providing effective team management.
• Taking ownership of month end activities and reporting, overseeing all month end activities and tasks, ensuring a smooth process.
• Ensuring the management accounting team delivers reporting activities in a timely manner and to the required standard.
• Collate monthly financial reporting for MCA’s budget managers, Executive Committee and the Department for Transport
• Lead the management accounting team to provide support for ad hoc finance tasks as required within the MCA

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Advanced Excel skills and financial analysis.
• Experience in a management accountant role, or a finance role with transferable skills.
• Experience of line management and building working relationships with colleagues at a senior level, both internal and external.
• Current knowledge and practical application of financial management techniques and financial reporting requirements as included in Treasury’s Managing Public Money, the Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Confident in working on own initiative, as well as working alongside various stakeholders including but not limited to non-finance staff, budget holders, Directors and senior managers