Management Accountant - 6 month FTC

What you’ll be responsible for

The role will complete accurate and timely month end financial processes for specific Water service areas. Ensuring accuracy of technical financial treatment with a true and fair view of financial performance whilst maintaining compliance with Welsh Water’s financial policies, procedures and controls.
 

• Prepare and post monthly accounting journals and regular accruals into SAP for month end activities. Complete a variety of cost reconciliations and some balance sheet reconciliations.
• Production of accurate and timely information, including month end close and reporting to support decision making and compliance in the business. This will include variance analysis and commentary to the business along with being involved in business cost review meetings.
• Work closely with the business and/ or enabling services to prepare and complete financial plans (budgets and run rates) including organising and leading business planning sessions. 
• Provide detailed analysis and understanding cost drivers and areas of controllable expenditure with focus on the efficiency of the operation, base level costs and cost trends and developments in the external environment.
• Support the Regulatory reporting and budgetary processes and work with external and internal audit teams as required annually and from time to time.
• Support and work within your direct team to identify and improve or remove inefficient processes.
   

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• Senior Management Accountant
• Business Unit Financial Controllers
• Business Unit Management Accountants
• Financial & Regulatory Accountant
• Catchment and Operational Management teams
   

About you

The successful candidate will ideally have the following skills & experience:
 

• ACCA or CIMA (PQ or qualified)
• Working with SAP or a similar ERP system (e.g. Oracle)
• Prioritising competing demands and working with different stakeholders to manage expectations.
• Extensive experience in a similar role requiring posting journals, reconciling cost and balance sheet accounts and producing and reviewing reports with budget holders
• The drive and energy to produce excellent results and to continually find ways of improving relationships, outputs and processes.
• Team oriented, collaborative, tactful, and flexible with good oral and writing capabilities.
   

Good to know

Please note that this is a 6 month FTC position.

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

 
•             Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
•             Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
•             Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
•             Free Mortgage Brokering Services 
•             Enhanced family friendly policies
•             Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
•             Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
•             Cycle to work scheme
•             Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
•             Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
•             Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
•             An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
•             Many more can be found here!  


Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment
 
 
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
 
Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.
 

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.
 

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.
 

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 
 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.
 

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.