Management Accountant

Job Introduction

We are currently looking to recruit an experienced part qualified/qualified Management Accountant to join our team in Manchester. You will be responsible for all related transactional and financial reporting duties within the Wythenshawe Soft Services PFI contract; ensuring accurate, efficient and timely trading of accounts information, financial accounting, reporting & analysis is provided, along with the management of the onsite soft services finance admin team.

If you have excellent time management and organisation skills, strong attention to detail and the ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise workload – this is a fantastic opportunity for you.

This role will be based at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester.

Sodexo Healthcare is a leading provider of services to the NHS and private healthcare organisations in England. We provide quality of life services that improve patient and staff experience, raise standards and deliver financial benefits to our clients. We help to enhance the patient environment (including patient dining, cleaning/housekeeping, retail services), provide clinical support (diagnostic pathology as part of a joint venture, equipment sterilisation) and manage technical estates teams (estates management, asset management, land maintenance and energy management.

Role Responsibility

• Support on-site soft services finance admin and operational teams to deliver weekly and monthly trading, payroll and reporting processes to comply with Company Standards within the identified timescales and deadlines
• Assist in providing regular and ad-hoc MI, analysis and reporting, including weekly analysis and interrogation, ensuring compliance in trading procedures for E-ProphIT returns
• Raise accurate client invoices for all regular services and ad-hoc work, ensuring appropriate back-up is provided, prompt payment is received and any payment issues are escalated
• Calculate fixed bill uplifts and support the Commercial Financial Controller and operations management in the pricing and administration of variations
• Take leading role in the weekly site finance reviews to review weekly / monthly KPIs with site operations, monitor agreed actions and outcomes and ensure all risks and opportunities are highlighted
• Work with the operations team to support the annual budgets and quarterly forecasts submissions. Update and circulate all budget/forecast models to Operations
• Analyse and report on monthly stock holding levels, working with service managers to ensure that stock levels are optimised.

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified / Part qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
• Management accounts experience
• Experience of managing a small team
• Strong IT and analytical skills
• Ability to generate meaningful management information, produce financial reports in a clear and concise manner for financial and non-financial personnel
• Excellent communication skills and be comfortable interacting effectively with customers, client and staff of all levels

Desirable:

• SAP and Essbase skills
• Healthcare industry experience
• Experience of working with non-finance colleagues

Package Description

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave. We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

Band B - access to a variety of Sodexo benefits and discounts, flexible benefit fund, bonus and pension scheme

40 hours per week, flexibility is a must.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to further engage ex-forces personnel and reservists.  Those applying for jobs with us who meet the essential criteria advertised under the ‘ideal candidate’ for the vacancy advertised are guaranteed to progress within the selection process.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.