Senior Management Accountant

Job title:Senior Management Accountant

Location: Edinburgh

Reporting to: Lloyd Dunlop

About us:

Pulsant is the UK’s leading edge infrastructure provider. Regional businesses and service providers use Pulsant’s edge infrastructure platform (known as PlatformEdge) to build, connect and deploy the applications they need to innovate and grow. The platform is underpinned by Pulsant’s network of 12 strategically located edge data centres, interconnected through a low latency network fabric delivering access to cloud, connectivity, and compute services across the UK. Over 330 people across our data centres and three core corporate office locations in Edinburgh, Gateshead and Maidenhead have a strong heritage in helping over 1500 clients to achieve their digital ambitions.

Job Purpose and Opportunity:

The Senior Management Accountant is responsible for the preparation of monthly management accounts for the Pulsant group, including all holding and dormant entities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare management accounts within the reporting timescale including accruals, prepayments, deferred income, CAPEX including capitalisation of time and all other adjustments required.
• Review management accounts to ensure any unusual balances are explained and prepare full variance analysis in association with the Head of FP&A including a full forecast of performance against budget, re-forecast and prior year periods .
• Maintenance of the general ledger and reconciliation process, along with substantiation of all major balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis.
• Ownership of the bank reconciliation process.
• Preparation and submission of group VAT returns.
• Support year-end audit process, information gathering and dealing with queries.
• Collate, input and maintain all information for payroll submissions to our payroll partner and pension administrator, including working closely with our People Team.
• Prepare all year end P11D & PSA data for submission returns.
• Ensure the company ERP reconciles monthly with the board pack, including posting any late adjustments to so it is ready to update the forecast model.
• Ownership of the management accounts file/model including building in capacity for further additions to the Group.
• Mentoring, coaching, management support and development, including assisting with appraisals, evaluations and reporting of individual performance targets for the management accounting team.
• Review of the current month end processes to improve efficiency.
• Become a Champion for NetSuite within the finance team, including the ability to manage complex reporting and analytics queries.
• Assistance with any ad-hoc tasks as required by the Group Financial Controller.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Flexibility is required of all job holders to adjust responsibilities as required from time to time by their Line Manager/Divisional Director.
• All roles will be required to handle confidential information and/or sensitive data in a professional manner and in line with existing Company processes and policies.
• The content and reporting lines detailed in this job description may be reviewed and changed from time to time to reflect organisational requirements.
• This list is not exhaustive but provides an indicator of likely tasks and responsibilities.

Special Conditions:

• This role may require occasional customer and Pulsant site visits.
• This role may require Monday to Sunday out of hours working where necessary.
• Provide appropriate work cover of the team during holiday / sickness.

Education & Qualifications sought:

Essential

• Minimum Degree level or equivalent in relevant discipline / proven financial working experience.
• Minimum GCSE/O level/Nat 5 or equivalent, in English and Maths.

Desirable

• Fully qualified member of a recognised accountancy body.

Experience sought:

Essential

• Extensive experience within the Accounts department.
• Experience in the preparation of consolidated management accounts.
• Experience with Microsoft packages, in particular Excel at advanced level (i.e. ability to create complex formulas, pivot tables).
• Experience in using computerised accounting systems and online banking systems.
• Previous experience working as a Team Leader and managing a team.

Competencies & skills sought:

Essential

• Strong management and organisational skills, including comfort in delegating authority and responsibility.
• High numeracy skills.
• Organised and able to prioritise work effectively.
• An enthusiastic, driven, committed and flexible approach to work.
• Solutions driven, confident and friendly approach in dealing with people.
• Natural initiative and pro-activeness to their method of working.
• Excellent analytical, process and documentation skills.
• Be open to new ideas and have a positive outlook.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent relationship building skills.
• Excellent standard of written and spoken English.
• Must be a team player but also able to work on own initiative with supervision.
• Degree of commercial acumen.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Abilit to work well to deadlines and under pressure.
• Ability to think logically.
• Good problem-solving skills.

Knowledge sought:

Essential

• Good understanding of the concept of accruals, prepayments and deferred income.
• Good understanding of differentiating between fixed assets, maintenance and support, and general widgets.
• Knowledge of using different computer accounting packages.

Desirable

• Recent experience of using NetSuite.
• Holistic approach to finance.

Pulsant Values Framework

Why work for Pulsant?

At Pulsant, you can expect variety and a challenging, fun working environment - where culture and well-being are as important as career development and training. The company offers extensive career progression opportunities and there is a friendly environment with a team that for many feels like family. As such almost half of employees have been with Pulsant for 5+ years.

We offer a hybrid working model where you can work two days a week from home. Whilst in the office you can expect a fresh, open space to work and collaborate in, modern kitchen facilities and break-out areas to relax during breaks.

In addition to the great training and the opportunity to develop your personal, technical and leadership skills - our company perks include:

• Pension
• Private Healthcare
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free breakfast & snacks
• Access to unlimited learning content through Udemy
• Team socials
• Wellbeing day
• Your birthday off
• Pulsant rewards / cashback scheme

For a window into #lifeatpulsant check out our social channels @lifeatpulsant and careers page pulsant.com/careers

Diversity & Accommodations:

Pulsant is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our people. If you require reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to us by email: talent.team@pulsant.com