Lead Management Accountant
Mar 13, 2025
Role accountabilities and responsibilities
Routine Accounting
* Accrued and deferred income posting.
* Approval of month end journals including accruals, prepayments and payroll.
* Posting cost reallocations.
* Balance sheet reconciliation.
* Posting, reconciliation and forecasting of income.
* VAT return and reconciliation.
* Ensure the accuracy of the Fixed et Register.
Reporting, budgeting and forecasting
* Manage the production of the monthly management accounts.
* Provision of financial ysis and variance ysis.
* Business partnering with an Executive member and their Divisional managers on monthly management accounts.
* Manage budgeting and forecasting.
* Manage audit.
* ist with Statutory financial statements preparation.
* ist with the annual Office for Students financial return.
Financial systems
* Investigate transactional issues in relevant systems.
* Update finance systems with new codes/ysis codes.
* Provide support and training to end users e.g. in purchase ordering.
General
* Line management of the Management Accounts Team, including two Finance ysts and an istant Accountant, whose ACCA studies will need to be supervised and supported.
* Profitability ysis isting financial resilience and business optimisation.
* Provide support when required to members of the wider finance team.
* Undertake other duties of similar nature which fall within the scope of the post which may be required from time to time.
CIMA, ACA or ACCA qualified candidates only
