Management Accountant - Anglian Water : Job Details

Salary Circa £45,000 - £50,000 per annum, dependent on skills and experience

Full-time/12 Month Fixed Term Contract starting March 2025

Hybrid: Peterborough & Home-working

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough.

Join our team and make a difference

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Management Accountant to join our Finance team here at Anglian Water on a fixed term contract for 12 months. This position will see you hold key responsibility for the following; maintaining compliance with financial controls policy & procedure, escalation of control issues and communicating key financial controls messages across the virtual finance teams for your designated business area.

This exciting role will see the successful candidate play an active role in delivering the business planning and management accounting processes for your designated business area for OPEX and CAPEX, driving continuous improvement of processes, and communicating key messages and timescales to stakeholders. You will be responsible for budget areas of mid-size and complexity.

Using your expert business knowledge, you will provide exemplary process advice, analysis, statutory and regulatory reporting support. You will be the key point of contact for Business Partners and the Management Accounting Manager for the designated business area. Throughout all responsibilities, you will champion the fundamental principles of standardisation, automation, efficiency and compliance, and maximising opportunities through innovation and technology.

As a valued employee you'll be entitled to:

? Your benefits will include:

• An excellent Family Leave package - to help you support your family
• Full private healthcare with no excess
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• A flexible working culture
• Competitive pension scheme - we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Life Assurance at eight times your salary
• Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
• Lots of great discounts
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Paid time off when you're physically and mentally unwell

What does it take to be a Management Accountant?

• Strong communication skills and able to build excellent relationships with other stakeholders.
• Qualified Accountant and/or extensive equivalent experience.
• 3 years + Management Accounting experience.
• Understanding and application of modern management accounting techniques.
• Excellent analytical skills; with the ability to adapt and challenge.
• Good organisation skills and capable of working towards set deadlines.
• Good IT and computer skills, particularly Microsoft Excel and Word.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community's Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women's Utility Network.

Closing date: 4th December

Interview Dates: 11th/12th December

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