Assistant Management Accountant-Leisure Overheads
Posting date: | 20 June 2024 |
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Salary: | Not specified |
Additional salary information: | £28000-28000 per annum |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 04 July 2024 |
Location: | Leicestershire, LE3 2WR |
Company: | Serco Limited |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | 294661-42614701 |
Summary
- Hybrid working available for a few days each weekPermanent, Full time, 37 hours between Monday to Friday
£28,0000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Here within Serco Leisure our goal is to encourage active, healthy lifestyles in an environment that is safe, warm, clean, friendly and fun. To be the destination of choice for being part of an active community, whilst helping you to make MORE of every day’.
To deliver those services takes an enthusiastic and customer focused team
- and right now we are looking to recruit for an Assistant Accountant to join our management accounting team and play a key role in supporting the production of timely and accurate financial and management information across a portfolio of contracts to the Leisure Senior Team.
As the Assistant Accountant, you will act as a trusted point of contact for business leaders, transforming financial and non-financial information into insight which influences decision making to improve financial performance of Serco services.
Your main responsibilities:
- Production of monthly accounts, complete for Management Accountant to review
- Attend and contribute to monthly accounts reviews with Contract Managers – investigate & resolve any queries raised
- Prepare balance reconciliations, investigate, and resolve any issues, for monthly review by Management Accountant
- Attend & contribute to quarterly balance sheet reviews with Contract Managers
- Complete VAT returns for required sites
- Collate required information for contract audits and support Management Account in resolving queries
- Create strong working relationships with relevant contract managers & site admin staff to improve & maintain quality & efficiency of information received
What you’ll need to do the role:
- Ideally you will be working as an Assistant Accountant or similar, working towards a professional qualification with a recognised accounting body along with relevant experience in finance teams.
- Track record of collaborating with business leaders in a complex business environment.
- Evidence of ability to influence, negotiate, listen to and resolve conflicts with key decision makers.
- Strong commercial acumen, as well as demonstrable experience of understanding relationships between key financial and non-financial business value drivers.
- Experience of interpreting and dealing with incomplete data; and the capability to exercise judgement where there is ambiguity
- Evidence of building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of having worked successfully in a virtual team.
- Willingness and ability to travel occasionally within the UK
What we offer
· Free parking on site
· Excellent development and training opportunities
· 6% employer matched pension contribution
· 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
· Life assurance up to 2x base salary
· All benefits - Employee Benefits (moreleisure.com)
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Leicester, LE3 1UQ
- Hybrid working available for a few days each weekPermanent, Full time, 37 hours between Monday to Friday
£28,0000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Here within Serco Leisure our goal is to encourage active, healthy lifestyles in an environment that is safe, warm, clean, friendly and fun. To be the destination of choice for being part of an active community, whilst helping you to make MORE of every day’.
To deliver those services takes an enthusiastic and customer focused team
- and right now we are looking to recruit for an Assistant Accountant to join our management accounting team and play a key role in supporting the production of timely and accurate financial and management information across a portfolio of contracts to the Leisure Senior Team.
As the Assistant Accountant, you will act as a trusted point of contact for business leaders, transforming financial and non-financial information into insight which influences decision making to improve financial performance of Serco services.
Your main responsibilities:
- Production of monthly accounts, complete for Management Accountant to review
- Attend and contribute to monthly accounts reviews with Contract Managers – investigate & resolve any queries raised
- Prepare balance reconciliations, investigate, and resolve any issues, for monthly review by Management Accountant
- Attend & contribute to quarterly balance sheet reviews with Contract Managers
- Complete VAT returns for required sites
- Collate required information for contract audits and support Management Account in resolving queries
- Create strong working relationships with relevant contract managers & site admin staff to improve & maintain quality & efficiency of information received
What you’ll need to do the role:
- Ideally you will be working as an Assistant Accountant or similar, working towards a professional qualification with a recognised accounting body along with relevant experience in finance teams.
- Track record of collaborating with business leaders in a complex business environment.
- Evidence of ability to influence, negotiate, listen to and resolve conflicts with key decision makers.
- Strong commercial acumen, as well as demonstrable experience of understanding relationships between key financial and non-financial business value drivers.
- Experience of interpreting and dealing with incomplete data; and the capability to exercise judgement where there is ambiguity
- Evidence of building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of having worked successfully in a virtual team.
- Willingness and ability to travel occasionally within the UK
What we offer
· Free parking on site
· Excellent development and training opportunities
· 6% employer matched pension contribution
· 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
· Life assurance up to 2x base salary
· All benefits - Employee Benefits (moreleisure.com)
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