Financial Accountant

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career; with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Telecom, we’re enabling and enhancing telecom networks, playing a lead role in the delivery of our tech enabled future.

We deliver full network cycle services for fixed, private and mobile operators.

This role will be within our Fixed networks team, you’ll join our people who support providing turnkey solutions for the surveying, designing, building and commissioning new networks, while supporting the repair, maintenance and operation of existing networks.

Please note: This is a hybrid role, requiring 2-3 days in the office per week, primarily based in Stevenage, with occasional travel to St Ives or Warwick.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

• Prepare Balance Sheet reconciliations (ARCS), VAT returns (including PVA), and maintain the Fixed Asset Register
• Deliver month-end and year-end reporting, including journals, statutory packs, CAPEX, provisions, and FCCS submissions
• Support cashflow reporting, consolidation, variance analysis, and Kyriba updates
• Perform tax analysis (Corporation Tax & RDEC) and ensure compliance with financial controls and policies
• Support IFRS 16 lease accounting, audits (internal/external), and risk/fraud assessments
• Contribute to budgeting, forecasting, financial controls testing, ad hoc analysis, and finance projects (including Oracle enhancements)

What You’ll Bring

• VAT experience and strong understanding of accounting principles
• Part-qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or equivalent) with 2+ years’ experience
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint)
• Confident reviewing and testing processes, with a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Well organised, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple priorities
• Team player with a flexible, “can-do” attitude
• GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Maths

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include.

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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