Management Accountant

Peterborough - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Management Accountant
Circa 42000 dependent on skills and experience
Permanent full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time
Peterborough

Dive into a world of opportunity and join our team!

Reporting into the Finance Manager you will play a pivotal role in driving financial planning performance and decision-making across your business area. You will be deliver high-quality financial insight budgeting and forecasting and commercial support that enables informed decision-making in a complex and regulated environment. You will be accountable for delivering accurate actuals forecasts and budgets for both the area you support and other areas within the remit of the Finance Manager and your team.

You will be responsible for maintaining compliance with financial controls policy & procedure escalation of control issues and communicating key financial controls messages across the virtual finance teams for your designated business area. You will deliver the business planning and management accounting processes for the designated business area for OPEX and CAPEX driving continuous improvement of processes communicating key messages and timescales to stakeholders. The budget areas you will be responsible will be of a mid-size and complexity.

Key responsibilities

Responsible for producing financial budgets and forecasts for your designated business area
Single point of contact for assigned budget holders for provision of all financial data and information
Working with your team and the Financial Controller ensure key milestones and budget objectives are built into the timetable and plan
Ensure compliance with the budget timetable and process
Drive standardised continuous improvement in the budget process in conjunction with your team
Deliver the forecasting process for the designated business area challenge assumptions in the bottom up process and ensure forecasts reflect an appropriate balance of risk and opportunity

As a valued employee youll be entitled to:

A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%
Private healthcare for your peace of mind
An annual bonus scheme
The opportunity to volunteer in your local community
26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays) increasing with service with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays
Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)
Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle
Paid time off for illness both physical and mental
Free parking at all office locations sites and leisure parks
Excellent family-friendly policies including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay with the opportunity for shared parental leave

What does it take to be successful

Qualified Finance professional (ACCA CIMA ACA) or equivalent experience
Experience in managing stakeholders
Experience in producing actuals forecasts and budgets
Experience with management accounting
Experience of compliance with financial controls and processes
Sound knowledge and understanding of and application of financial reporting and analysis tools (e.g Power BI SAP analysis and reporting applications) in providing high quality outputs

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer which means well consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression ethnic origin nationality religion or beliefs age sexual orientation disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes and were committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 11th January 2026

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Management AccountantCirca 42000 dependent on skills and experiencePermanent full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part timePeterborough Dive into a world of opportunity and join our team!Reporting into the Finance Manager you will play a pivotal role in driving financial planning performance an...