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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Salary: £42,000 - £50,000
We are looking for a Management Accountant to join our friendly finance team (currently 13 members), as we continue to scale and develop our reporting and analysis capability.
This is a newly created role introduced to support the team as the business grows. You’ll be working closely alongside another Management Accountant to share responsibilities, drive improvements, and help deliver high-quality insights across the business. Over time, responsibilities will expand and adapt in line with our evolving finance structure, with the opportunity to take on leadership responsibility within the function.
This is an excellent opportunity to join at a time of expansion and help shape the way we report, analyse, and deliver insights to the wider business.
As a fully qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA professional with 3+ years’ post qualified experience you will be a key part of our team. We're looking for someone with commercial curiosity who is keen to learn our business and work confidently in a fast-paced, collaborative setting.
You will report to the Financial Controller.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead the preparation of the monthly management accounts pack, including performing analysis of variance against budgets and production of management reports.
- Drive improvements in monthly reporting and analysis, providing insight to allow the business to make informed strategical and operational decisions.
- Preparing and inputting ledger journals, ensuring the accuracy of reported income and expenditure.
- Produce monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations.
- Support the Assistant Accountant with monthly reconciliation of balance sheet control accounts and resolution of queries arising.
- Support the Assistant Accountant with preparation of monthly payroll, ensuring pension contributions and PAYE are settled on time.
- Prepare Quarterly VAT returns.
- Provide validation and analysis of our cost of sales across our portfolio of accounts.
- Preparation of annual accounts and supporting working papers and using this data to respond to enquiries from external auditors as part of the year end audit process.
- Oversight of daily bank and cash records on Sage ensuring Finance Assistants are accurately allocating bank transactions to ledger accounts.
- Provide support to Finance Assistants and Assistant Accountant and providing cover during times of absence.
- Providing transaction processing and financial analysis support to the finance team
- Support Financial Controller and Finance Director in any ad-hoc tasks as required.
Skills and experience:
- 3+ years post qualified experience ACCA/CIMA/ACA.
- Strong experience preparing monthly management accounts and improving processes.
- Willing to mentor and support more junior finance colleagues.
- An excellent communicator who is passionate about what you do.
- Excel savvy with the ability to manipulate and analyse large volumes of data.
- Salesforce and Sage Intacct experience would be beneficial but not essential.
About us:
UniHomes has been named the fastest-growing technology company in Yorkshire and the Northeast in the 2023 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50. We are also incredibly proud to have been officially certified as a Great Place to Work® (GPTW®).
Our industry-leading property search portal and utility management service enables our established and ever-increasing network of letting agent partners, to offer hassle-free all-inclusive accommodation to our growing and strong community of university students, who are actively seeking their perfect shared house. We are taking the market by storm, currently in over 60 university cities and towns across the UK, and we have huge ambitions for 2025.
Founded by three Sheffield property entrepreneurs in 2015, we have experienced remarkable growth and now have a team of almost one hundred at our Sheffield City Centre office. With recent minority investment from LDC we are scaling up our teams ready to conquer new horizons. There couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us.
We are a team driven and united by our core values:
- Lead the Way
- In it Together
- Customers Matter
- Keep it Simple
- Rise Above Challenges
- Make it Happen
What do you get when you work here?
With people and culture at the heart of our organisation, we are continually enhancing our employee offer and culture. We are incredibly proud to have been officially certified as a Great Place to Work® (GPTW®) and an accredited Living Wage employer - all our employees earn a fair living wage above the government minimum wage.
Working in our stunning new office at New Era Square in the centre of Sheffield, you will get complimentary breakfast, hot & cold drinks, snacks, pool table, holidays, length of service days, voluntary day, enhanced pension scheme, pension salary sacrifice scheme, healthcare scheme, Employee Assistant Programme, sick pay, enhanced maternity & paternity pay, career progression, a commitment to personal and professional development, employee of the month award, refer a friend scheme, staff discounts, mental health and financial support, and company social events.
