Management Accountant (109985-0125)

For informal enquiries, please contact Shumi Mitra (Finance Manager) at Shumi.Mitra@warwick.ac.uk.

Are you a fully qualified accountant? Do you have experience of budgeting and monitoring complex activities?

An opportunity exists for a qualified and experienced accountant to join WMG to provide financial management, planning and budgetary support for the High Value Manufacturing Catapult programme (£20m pa) and associated projects.

The sucessful candidate will provide management information for the financial planning and monitoring of project activites and working closely with the project delivery teams in a business partnering role to  provide related advice and guidance. In addition, you will assist with the management of financial processes and oversee compliance with external funder rules.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.  

About You

You will have demonstrable experience in the preparation and reporting of complex and varied financial information, including costing of new proposals, budgeting and forecasting.  You will be a skilled accountant who can quickly identify issues and provide timely formulation and modelling of potential solutions.  You will have a high degree of accuracy and be a strong communicator even when under pressure.

You will hold a recognised CCAB qualification and be a high level user of financial software, in particular Excel -  Power Query/BI and Word. In return we will provide you with a great range of benefits which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus bank holiday and Christmas closure, some fantastic savings on a wide range of products and services, and excellent learning and development opportunities.

This post also offers a £2,000 allowance for current membership of a recognised CCAB accountancy body.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the job description.

Closing date: Monday 27 January 2025 at 11.55pm

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.

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