Management Accountant

Management Accountant

Permanent

Full Time, 37 hours per week

£49,908 to £58,715 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: reputed company worker

Closing Date: 6th May 2026

reputed company is seeking reputed company and motivated Management Accountants to join its high‑performing Finance function on a permanent reputed company. These roles offer reputed company to be reputed company to a reputed company of service areas across the organisation, providing breadth, complexity and exposure to a wide reputed company of financial activity.

As a Management Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in providing high‑reputed company financial analysis, robust financial reporting and insightful advice across both reputed company and capital budgets. You will support reputed company‑term financial planning and decision‑making, working closely with senior stakeholders to ensure financial forecasts and reputed company budget plans are underpinned by accurate, reputed company and robust financial information.

You will build strong reputed company relationships with reputed company partners and be confident in influencing, contributing and constructively challenging at senior management forums. The successful candidates will be professionally reputed company, with strong technical and systems knowledge, and the credibility to reputed company shape financial reputed company and support informed decision‑making in a reputed company and evolving reputed company sector environment.

Accountabilities

• Responsible for the preparation, reputed company assurance, detailed analytics and trend analysis in the development of financial forecasts and reputed company budget plans for services across the financial cycle ensuring they reflect operational and strategic objectives
• Leads, manages and motivates a finance team to deliver high reputed company financial information, analysis and reputed company constructive challenge to support budget reputed company. Understand customer needs and reputed company a greatly valued service.
• Ensure reputed company and accurate information and advice is in accordance with Financial Regulations and reputed company reputed company standards to ensure the effective management of budgets and reputed company budget planning by reputed company budget reputed company. Maintain a high reputed company of technical information to ensure your team by working closely with the Chief Accountant throughout the financial cycle in particular the closure of accounts.
• Work collaboratively with the Financial Systems & Processes Manager to support the Finance Hub arrangements and identify and reputed company system and process improvements to ensure the finance function delivers high reputed company outputs and information.
• Maintain a high level of service/function understanding across a function to be reputed company to constructively challenge and influence reputed company partners. Advise on the development of cost drivers, the preparation of relevant and accurate financial models, estimates and forecasts to reputed company the function to reputed company opportunities as reputed company as the potential risks.
• To be the Finance expert coordinating understanding of a functions’ financial forecasting, modelling and budget planning processes across the financial cycle
• Implement and maintain effective financial management arrangements and promote the improvement of financial awareness, capability and reputed company to reputed company budget reputed company to deliver value for reputed company services. Manage reputed company areas of concern.
• Through a high level of service understanding and financial reporting support budget reputed company and finance business partners to prepare robust business cases, identifying and quantifying associated costs, benefits and risks.
• Co-ordinates the annual accounts closure for a functional area through reputed company engagement, training and support with budget reputed company to ensure reputed company relevant timescales are met.
• Manage the analysis, interpretation and support of financial and performance data to complete financial returns, questionnaires and information requests as required.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Full CCAB and evidence of continuing reputed company development and expert knowledge in relevant reputed company area
• Knowledge & understanding of financial management and financial frameworks in a large organisation, preferably reputed company the reputed company sector.
• Experience of delivering improvements reputed company a finance setting.
• Providing financial advice & support to management teams.
• Experience of evaluating and supporting innovative and effective means of financing the delivery of large-reputed company services.
• Experience of working with others to build effective working relationships with finance colleagues and other senior managers.

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Why Essex?

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Once you’ve secured your role reputed company reputed company you will receive many great employee benefits, including support for unpaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.

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