Management Accountant

Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week)

Purpose:

The Management Accountant is pivotal in ensuring the Group’s financial stability and growth. This role involves delivering exceptional business partnering services, which include providing value for money, setting and monitoring budgets, forecasting, and business planning across various service areas and the Group as a whole.

In this dynamic position, you will be the primary source of proactive and high-quality financial advice, enabling effective budget management and control. Your ability to enhance reporting will be evident as you prepare budgets, costing models, and overhead allocations. Implementing robust procedures to support financial management and reporting of new business areas will be a key part of your role.

Collaboration is essential, and you will work closely with the Wider Leadership Team and Budget Managers, providing timely financial information that drives strategic and operational decisions. Preparing accounts for business areas, service charges, and statutory audits, complete with comprehensive supporting documents, will be part of your routine. Your expertise in financial modelling will allow you to evaluate and appraise new projects, making informed recommendations that guide the Group towards growth and diversification.

The Management Accountant will provide professional financial expertise, insight, and support across the Group with accurate and timely financial performance information and analysis. You will support the production and delivery of the Group’s budget and business plan. The role involves ensuring regulatory and statutory financial compliance, underpinned by a robust framework of financial controls. You will support the Corporate Finance team in delivering excellent customer services, standards in financial management and taxation, reporting and business partnering, financial planning, and meeting financial regulatory standards, including rent and service charge setting.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing proactive and high-quality financial information and advice to enable effective budget management and control.
• Setting and monitoring Service Charges and undertaking reconciliations.
• Supporting the development and continual improvement of reporting through the preparation of budgets, costing models, and overhead allocations.
• Delivering costings, process developments, and systems reporting, ensuring robust procedures are implemented to support and drive effective financial management and reporting of new business areas.
• Working collaboratively with the Wider Leadership Team and Budget Managers to support strategic and operational decision-making through the provision of robust and timely financial information.
• Preparing accounts for business areas, service charges, and statutory audits, including full supporting working papers.
• Utilising a range of financial modelling techniques to evaluate and appraise new and complex projects, drawing conclusions from such evaluations and making reasoned recommendations based on these.
• Enabling growth and diversification by adopting an innovative but robust approach to appraising projects and providing financial advice.
• Successfully managing and developing the Assistant Management Accountant, collaborating towards a highly engaged, high-performing team providing excellent financial services across Stockport Homes Group.

You should have extensive accounting knowledge, preferably professionally qualified through membership of CCAB/CIMA. You will have experience working in a complex and varied financial environment, as well as experience working as part of a team to set budgets, produce regular financial management information, and prepare statutory accounts to financial standards (e.g., FRS
102, Charities SORP).

Excellent IT skills, including advanced use of Excel, and knowledge of finance and feeder systems, relevant processes, dependencies, and interfaces, are essential. You should have experience working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams to support and drive organisational change and development. The ability to produce technically…