Trainee Management Accountant - Urgent Position

We are Places Leisure, a Real Living Wage Employer, we run leisure sites across the UK to help people stay active and live their best lives.

We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with customer focussed people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

Role purpose:

We are recruiting for a Trainee Management Accountant to join our growing and ambitious team. You will assist in the output of financial data working closely with our Operation Managers, Heads of Departments and group teams.

You will be responsible for preparing monthly management accounts, ensuring they are accurate and true. You will also be required to reconcile accounts, prepare year end files, and undertake project work as required.

This role is based in Camberley, though it is a hybrid working role, so you will be able to split your time between home and the office in Camberley.

For more information on this position, please see the attached job description.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

You should be highly numerate with a strong financial understanding. You will be confident when working with balance sheets, reconciliations, and P&Ls. We would like to see applicants who are analytical with a high attention to detail and the ability to work accurately. Stakeholder management is essential as are effective communication skills.

This is a great opportunity to develop your career as study support is available for the right candidate. It is therefore important that applications are keen to learn, proactive, and ambitious.

The benefits

We look after the people of our business so you can look after our customers. We align to the Real Living Wage rate for all of our colleagues. 

Our ambition gives you all the challenge you could wish for and that's why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse and pioneering business.

Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier; from a pension, generous holiday pay, training, sick pay, and free or discounted gym membership – to a wealth of extra perks including interest-free loans for colleagues, discounts and offers on thousands of retailers, restaurants and leisure outlets and much more.

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.

If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on skillsemployment@placesforpeople.co.uk.