Assistant 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?

As an organisation, there is little we don’t do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.

This role is in our Plant & Fleet department, Plant & Fleet supports teams across our business with their vehicle, plant and specialist equipment needs. Come join a great team in a business that's growing. 

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

As the Assistant Accountant, you will be responsible for supporting the finance team by delivering accurate and timely month-end processes, maintaining robust financial controls, and providing insightful overhead reporting and analysis. This role plays a key part in ensuring the integrity of financial information, supporting budget holders, and driving effective cost management across the business. You will:

• Produce and analyse overhead reports, monitoring expenditure against budgets and providing variance commentary.
• Support month-end processes, including journals, balance sheet reconciliations and management accounts preparation.
• Manage weekly and monthly revenue reporting, ensuring accurate reconciliations and financial data integrity.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, year-end activities and audit requirements.
• Build effective relationships with Finance colleagues and Plant & Fleet operational teams across the business.
• Maintain strong financial controls, ensuring accurate cost allocation, record keeping and compliance with accounting policies.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting, processes and ways of working across the finance function.

What you’ll bring

• AAT qualified or qualified by experience.
• Previous experience in an Assistant Accountant or similar finance role.
• Strong Excel skills for summarising and presenting financial information.
• Good analytical skills and high attention to detail.
• Able to explain financial information in a simple, clear way.
• Organised, proactive and able to work to deadlines.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

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;

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private Healthcare
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays 
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About 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 are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting 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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