Management Accountant , Permanent opportunity.

Office Location : Glasgow, hybrid working

Parity Network are recruiting on behalf of a public sector organisation, who are looking for a Management Accountant. This role will be hybrid working, with time spent on site in their Glasgow offices.

Working in the finance team you will be responsible for providing clear and relevant financial information and analysis to business teams to enable them to track, understand, forecast and effectively control costs.

You will be responsible for providing both regular and ad-hoc financial reports that track and explain operating costs, ensuring that this critical information is communicated regularly to the business team. Your support will be essential as the team plans ahead, helping to set financial performance targets for business plans, annual budgets, and quarterly forecasts.

What you'll bring :

• You must have a relevant accountancy qualification, be part way through study for this or be able to demonstrate equivalent 'qualification by experience'.
• Strong grasp of accounting principles and management accounting techniques.
• Ability to explain financial concepts and information to business professionals in a way that is easily understandable.
• Confidence in challenging and influencing others, particularly those in more senior positions.
• Ability to analyse data and transform it into actionable information, reviewing cost data, identifying drivers of costs, and looking for trends and correlations.
• Strong IT skills, particularly proficiency in Excel and knowledge of Peoplesoft, Oracle or an equivalent financial system.
• Ability to work agilely and effectively within a team, contributing beyond your individual day-to-day responsibilities to deliver ad-hoc improvement projects.
• Experience of activity-based analysis of costs and / or implementing new reporting tools (eg : performance dashboards / scorecards or equivalent) is an advantage.

Get in touch with me, Lynne Strang, for more information or simply press the button to apply.

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