Management Accountant

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'. You'll need a 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, and you should be able to grasp business processes, terminology, and their applications.It's essential to feel confident in challenging and influencing others, particularly those in more senior positions.You will also need to analyse data and transform it into actionable information. This involves reviewing cost data, identifying what drives those costs, and looking for trends and correlations. Your conclusions must be robust and clearly articulated to ensure they are meaningful.Strong IT skills are crucial, particularly proficiency in Excel and knowledge of Peoplesoft, Oracle or an equivalent financial system, as you will be using these tools in most aspects of your work.Ability to work agilely and effectively within a team, contributing beyond your individual day-to-day responsibilities to deliver ad-hoc improvement projects.It would be an advantage to have experience of activity-based analysis of costs and / or implementing new reporting tools (eg : performance dashboards / scorecards or equivalent). Get in touch with me, Lynne Strang, for more information or simply press the button to apply.Parity - Better Decisions : Better PeopleParity Professionals Ltd acts in the capacity of an Employment Agency when providing permanent recruitment services.We welcome applications from all sections of society and applicants will be considered on the basis of their suitability for the positionAt Parity, we are committed to protecting your privacy, we will process and hold your CV and use the information you have provided lawfully, and in accordance with our Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy which can be found at (url removed)