Management Accountant

Age UK are recruiting for a part-qualified Management Accountant in their Financial Planning & Analysis – Retail team. This role is focussed around producing and delivering timely and accurate management accounts and performance reporting to the business which consists of 260 charity shops across England and Wales, with an annual turnover of circa £40m.

Responsibilities include month end duties, distribution of reporting, commercial analysis, and supporting financial planning through the creation of budgets and forecasts.

This fantastic opportunity offers hybrid and flexible working between home and a central London co-working hub.

Age UK Grade 6L

Must haves:

• Experience of working to deadlines within a finance department.
• Experience of double entry bookkeeping and account reconciliations.
• Experience in providing a service to an internal customer, working in collaboration with others to reach common goals.
• Intermediate Excel (Vlookups, Pivot Tables & Formulae).
• High level of numeracy and accuracy, attention to detail
• Aptitude for picking up new IT systems.
• Excellent time management skills, ability to manage own workload and to meet deadlines.
• Analytical, problem solving skills.
• Good communication skills, team player and ability to quickly build relationships within and outside of Finance

Great to haves:

• Previous experience in Retail finance.
• Keen to work in Charity sector.
• Power Bi skills. Microsoft Dynamics Nav experience.
• Someone who loves to innovate and improve processes to be more efficient.

What we offer in return

• Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme
• Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, health cashback plan and EAP
• Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
• Techscheme – buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
• Blue Light Card Scheme
• You Did It Awards – recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information

For a full list of benefits please click here https://about-us/jobs/employee-benefits/

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please note that on occasion, due to high numbers of applications, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.