Job Description
Job description
As a Management Accountant, you'll work within our Finance team where this is a unique career-move to meet the needs of a complex organisation that is going through rapid growth within an evolving industry. As a Management Accountant, you’ll play a significant role by owning the month end Management Accounts process for City Plumbing branches. The Management Accountant be supported by two Finance Analysts and you’ll be responsible for ensuring compliance, efficiency and delivery of a robust set of management accounts for our City Plumbing branch network.
(Highbourne Group includes brands such as City Plumbing, Direct Heating Spares, Energy Efficiency, National Shower Spares, Plumbnation, Plumbworld, The Bathroom Showroom, and The Underfloor Heating Store).
Key Responsibilities
• Preparation of Financial Reports: Prepare and analyse monthly management accounts, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Assist in the preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, providing variance analysis and insights to support business planning.
• Financial Analysis: Conduct detailed financial analysis, including cost analysis, profitability analysis, and performance metrics to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Support Decision Making: Develop financial models and provide financial advice to support strategic decision-making across the business.
• Cost Management: Monitor and control operational costs, identifying opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with UK financial regulations and accounting standards, including the preparation of VAT returns and other statutory reports.
• Internal Controls: Maintain and improve internal controls and financial processes to ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data.
• Audit Support: Assist with internal and external audits, providing necessary documentation and explanations as required.
• Ad-Hoc Reporting: Prepare ad-hoc financial reports and analysis as requested by senior management.
This is a hybrid-based opportunity with true flexibility to work from home, but you should be within commutable distance of our offices in Crick, Northamptonshire
You:
You’ll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with a proactive and analytical approach to problem-solving. You’ll be a qualified accountant, and enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Finance team and you’ll thrive on delivering excellent financial analysis, bookkeeping, credit control and reporting.
Skills and competencies
• Experience of financial controls and management accounts reporting
• Strong people management skills, able to aspire and develop those around you
• Analytically-minded with experience of or desire to work alongside senior stakeholders
• Commercial experience in financial modelling (reporting, budgets, month-end etc)
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with excellent time-management
It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: ACCA, CIMA, ACA, Assistant Management Accountant, Building Products, Construction, Finance Assistant, Finance BP, Finance Graduate, Finance Manager, Finance Analyst, Financial Analyst, Google Sheets, IT Finance, Junior Finance Analyst, Management Accountant.
Us:
From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.
Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:
• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!
#BelongWithUs
We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, *** or ****** orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.
As a Management Accountant, you'll work within our Finance team where this is a unique career-move to meet the needs of a complex organisation that is going through rapid growth within an evolving industry. As a Management Accountant, you’ll play a significant role by owning the month end Management Accounts process for City Plumbing branches. The Management Accountant be supported by two Finance Analysts and you’ll be responsible for ensuring compliance, efficiency and delivery of a robust set of management accounts for our City Plumbing branch network.
(Highbourne Group includes brands such as City Plumbing, Direct Heating Spares, Energy Efficiency, National Shower Spares, Plumbnation, Plumbworld, The Bathroom Showroom, and The Underfloor Heating Store).
Key Responsibilities
• Preparation of Financial Reports: Prepare and analyse monthly management accounts, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Assist in the preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, providing variance analysis and insights to support business planning.
• Financial Analysis: Conduct detailed financial analysis, including cost analysis, profitability analysis, and performance metrics to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Support Decision Making: Develop financial models and provide financial advice to support strategic decision-making across the business.
• Cost Management: Monitor and control operational costs, identifying opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with UK financial regulations and accounting standards, including the preparation of VAT returns and other statutory reports.
• Internal Controls: Maintain and improve internal controls and financial processes to ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data.
• Audit Support: Assist with internal and external audits, providing necessary documentation and explanations as required.
• Ad-Hoc Reporting: Prepare ad-hoc financial reports and analysis as requested by senior management.
This is a hybrid-based opportunity with true flexibility to work from home, but you should be within commutable distance of our offices in Crick, Northamptonshire
You:
You’ll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with a proactive and analytical approach to problem-solving. You’ll be a qualified accountant, and enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Finance team and you’ll thrive on delivering excellent financial analysis, bookkeeping, credit control and reporting.
Skills and competencies
• Experience of financial controls and management accounts reporting
• Strong people management skills, able to aspire and develop those around you
• Analytically-minded with experience of or desire to work alongside senior stakeholders
• Commercial experience in financial modelling (reporting, budgets, month-end etc)
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with excellent time-management
It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: ACCA, CIMA, ACA, Assistant Management Accountant, Building Products, Construction, Finance Assistant, Finance BP, Finance Graduate, Finance Manager, Finance Analyst, Financial Analyst, Google Sheets, IT Finance, Junior Finance Analyst, Management Accountant.
Us:
From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.
Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:
• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!
#BelongWithUs
We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, *** or ****** orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Management Accountant position is now open for candidates interested in the Plumber Jobs sector. This role in Rugby offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Plumber Jobs is a plus.
