Management Accountant - PE backed Property/Real estate

Investigo are delighted to be exclusively partnering with a PE backed property company in their search for a Management Accountant. The role of the management accountant combines accounting, finance and management to prepare internal financial reports and provide insight into business performance. The objective is to help senior management use financial information to inform business strategy, as well as contributing to decision-making that will ensure business growth and long-term success.

Principal duties and responsibilities

The role varies depending on the management structure, but responsibilities typically include:

• Preparing income statements for the business & key clients
• Supporting and being a point of contact for key clients
• Ensuring spending is kept in line with the budget & carrying out variance analysis
• Budget planning and forecasting
• Analysing financial performance and contributing to medium and long-term business planning and forecasts
• Completion of balance sheet reconciliations
• Helping improve business efficiencies
• Interpreting and communicating financial data to non-financial managers
• Being a key contact for internal managers for financial support
• Support the implementation of new processes and controls and the implementation of new systems.
• Assisting the auditors as part of the year end audit & helping prepare financial statements

Skills/Profile

• Qualified (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)
• commercial awareness, with an interest in business and an understanding of how an organisation works and manages resources
• a high level of numeracy
• the ability to explain complex financial information in a clear way
• professionalism and commitment
• excellent oral and written communication skills
• IT proficiency
• project management skills
• strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, with the ability to work with colleagues at all levels including non-finance members of staff
• confidence to know where your expertise ends and another team member's begins
• the ability to remain impartial
• a lively and enquiring mind with a logical approach to work, combined with analytical and problem-solving skills

If interested, please send your cv to calum.forster@investigo.co.uk