Senior Management Accountant

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated individual to the role of Senior Management Accountantfor our 'Your McCarthy Stone' Finance Team based in Bournemouth. (This role offers hybrid and flexible working opportunities as well.)

The Senior Management Accountant will support and assist the Head of Operational Finance in providing professional advice on all financial matters and managing day to day work of the team. They will participate and represent Operational Finance at all team functions and related meetings and have overall responsibility for all month end accounting processes. This includes being accountable for the creation and management of our finance information and preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts. Our stakeholders need monthly financial updates and our Senior Leadership Team expect monthly cost centre reports for their strategy meetings. The successful candidates will have responsibility for the line management of the management accounts team within the wider department.

About you

Our ideal candidate for the Senior Management Accountant role will:

• Be a qualified or newly qualified accountant (ACCA / CIMA)
• Have excellent working knowledge of Excel and finance systems
• A full understanding of balance sheet codes and reconciliations
• Experience of participating in year end statutory audits and providing information to auditors
• Have experience of working in a management account function, preferably in a senior role, dealing with high volumes of transactions.
• Can prepare and deliver budget and forecasting/cost reports to include identifying and explaining variances, identify trends, risks, and opportunities to the Senior Management team.
• Be highly organised with exceptional planning and delivery skills and know when to delegate.
• Relish a challenge and enjoy working to agreed sometimes tight deadlines.
• Constantly looking for ways to improve process and systems and resilient in the face of challenges or timeline pressures.
• Be confident, and clearly communicate their work and findings, and answer queries and questions from our stakeholders.
• Have previous experience of being a been a coach or mentor within the workplace.

Benefits

Financial:

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Professional Subscriptions paid for

Lifestyle/Health & Wellbeing:

• 24 days holiday (rising to 28) plus Bank Holidays
• 2 fully paid volunteering days per year (supported by the McCarthy Stone Foundation)
• Health benefits such as Remote GP, 24/7 access to EAP Services (including counsellors and legal advisors) and eyecare voucher
• Cycle to work scheme
• Colleagues Benefit Booklet with a range of store offers discounts and promotions
• Family Friendly Policies
• Excellent development opportunities

Ideal attributes

Our ideal Senior Management Accountant candidate will:

• Have great people management and leadership skills, and works well in small to medium teams or individually when needed
• Have a pro-active and positive attitude to change, and an ability to motivate those around them.
• Exhibit strong analytical and reporting skills
• Able to work with large amounts of data
• Always show discretion especially when dealing with sensitive data
• Enjoy problem solving and investigations.
• Have a professional, ‘Can do,’ attitude.

Further detailed information about this position is included within the job description.

At McCarthy Stone, we celebrate diversity and promote equality and inclusion amongst our colleagues. We welcome applications from all, regardless of personal characteristics or background.

All applications will be reviewed as soon as they are received, and we hold the right to appoint before the closing date.

McCarthy and Stone do not offer sponsorship so can only consider candidates that already have the right to work in the UK.

As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.

We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.

We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list!