Assistant Management Accountant 2023

Amey is a leading infrastructure services and engineering company. We are trusted partners of Government – both national and local – managing assets and complex projects that are vital to the sustainable growth of the country.

We have an opportunity for an Assistant Management Accountant, who will support our project team working with our MOJ contract. Here, we manage maintenance projects within prisons which could take between 1 month and a year and could be up to multi-million in value. Our project Finance team manage the delegated funds and ensure all costs are recovered.

As our Assistant Management Accountant you will create reports, allocate costs on plan and support the Management Accountant with job reviews. This is a development role which would suit either a Finance Assistant or a recent finance graduate, with advanced MS Excel skills. We will offer study support towards ACCA.

This is a hybrid working role (3-4 days in office), which could be based from either Chorley or Motherwell.

Office locations:

42 Eaton Avenue, Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 7NA

Precision House, Eurocentral, Motherwell, ML1 4UR

What will this role involve

• Communicating with contract-based staff to resolve queries as they arise.
• Producing and developing management reporting, understanding trends and providing meaningful information to enable management action to be taken to address areas requiring improvement.
• Understanding the dynamic of client-based systems, linkages to contract systems and develop ways to utilise client held data to provide further integrity and reconciliation to data held at contract level.
• Providing assistance and support to commercial management through expert data organisation skills utilising pivot tables, lookup formulas, sumifs formulas, data sort and file links.
• Building effective relationships with functional areas and site-based teams to provide a reliable point of contact for all aspects of data integrity and financial reporting.
• Ensuring the integrity of financial transaction information held within SAP.
• Utilising SAP transaction detail and data manipulation skills to produce quality information to non-financial operational management.
• Utilising data manipulation and excel skills to assist in the preparation of month end management accounts under the supervision of the contract finance manager, business support manager and senior financial analysts.
• Assisting with the production of the monthly management accounts.
• Assisting with the production of the monthly site profit and loss accounts by ensuring the robustness of cost allocations.
• Preparing and posting month end journals including WIP, Revenue, provisions, accruals and prepayments.
• Ensuring contract cost are controlled with robust procedures in place.
• Constantly challenging existing processes and methodologies to drive improvements and more effective ways of working.
• Pro-actively addressing issues and anomalies with finance, commercial and operations colleagues, explaining financial terminology to those with non-finance backgrounds.
• Ensuring balance sheet reconciliations are completed and key variances are understood and resolved, including appropriate audit trail and support
• Raising and issuing client invoices, utilising the client AFP data. Including chasing of cash receipts and provide updates to the senior management and treasury teams.
• Other transactional support activity as required.

What are we looking for

• Experience in a Finance Assistant role (or similar) or a recent Finance graduate
• A desire to pursuing a career in Finance
• Degree in a Numerical subject, or equivalent job-based experience
• Excellent IT Skills including knowledge of Excel and SAP
• Ability to achieve tight deadlines with a good level quality and understanding.
• Ability to work with numbers comfortably and be numerate.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills as the role involves interacting with internal and external clients
• Good organisation skills with the ability to prioritise a busy workload
• High level of attention to detail
• Commercial awareness

In return

Our rewards make us feel valued here at Amey. If you’re happy, you’ll think better. It’s a simple formula but one that puts your wellbeing as a top priority, that’s why we’ve worked hard to build a reward and benefits program that puts you first, including;

• Competitive salary
• Exceptional development and progression plan
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Additional Leave Purchase Scheme
• Amey Rewards Portal including healthcare, free GP service and dental

About Amey

We’re all originals here and our individuality is an asset. We have unique backgrounds and personalities, which means we all bring different ideas to the table. But we do have one thing in common: we all take personal pride in our public service. With every drop of water and spark of electricity we supply, with every bolt we tighten and with every guiding golden nugget of advice, we better manage the services that we all use and rely on every day, ensuring every household in Britain benefits from our work.

Amey is one of the top five support services suppliers in the UK. We employ 14,000 people, have a turnover of £2.1bn and a strong forward order-book. Every household in Britain benefits from the work we do. We maintain the UK’s road and rail infrastructure, keep schools safe and clean, manage the UK’s defence estate, safely escort prisoners and keep prisons and courts secure. We also collect and process waste, as well as deliver utilities services. All of this is underpinned by our leading consulting capabilities which uses engineering design and data analytics to better manage the services we all use and rely on

As one of us, you can really be you because your individuality is an asset. You’re surrounded by a team of people who want you to grow and embrace new challenges. People who care about your job satisfaction as well as your wellbeing. There’ll be experiences as original as you are, in a career that can feel like many rolled into one. You’ll be stretched but always supported. Whether it’s working on the biggest bridge in the country, learning to get to grips with the latest technology, or just working with a great group of people every day, you’ll find what gets you out of bed in the morning at Amey.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Please contact our recruitment team to discuss any access needs and reasonable adjustments that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.