We're currently looking to recruit a Management Accountant to join our United Utilities contract. This role will have responsibility for the provision and interpretation of financial and management information to support and inform the local management team. This role comes at an exciting time for the business and will play an integral role in developing/mobilising the Kier United Utilities Contract financial reporting including cost capture.

Location: Salford, Manchester, with flexible, hybrid working.

Contract: Permanent, full-time and able to consider part-time opportunities

Responsibilities

As a Management Accountant, your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Provide front line financial support to local and regional management teams.
• Ensure cost capture is optimised so that we deliver to expected margins on the contract.
• Oversee the preparation of weekly and monthly reporting, including contract performance, productivity analysis and cost base.
• Control of balance sheet, reconciliation process and cash reporting along with ensuring robust control of CVR's (Cost and Value Summaries), balance sheet and working capital.
• Partnering the Commercial teams in the preparation of short to medium term forecasts, and provide insight and analysis on performance drivers.

What are we looking for?

This role of Management Accountant is great for you if you have:

• Hold a professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), final stage part qualified accountants will be considered.
• Excellent commercial knowledge and experience of operating in a Construction environment, with project accounting experience (Water industry would be preferable).
• Advanced data analytic and excel skills.
• Good Communication skills, both written and verbal and able to build positive stakeholder relationships.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for use. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

You can see our D&I action plan here.

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