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Finance Manager - Management Account - Hemel Hempstead

Client: Butlins

Location: Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Job Category: Finance

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 85132ce87d38

Job Views: 5

Posted: 16.02.2025

Expiry Date: 02.04.2025

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Finance Manager - Management Account - Hemel Hempstead

Description:
We are looking for a Management Accountant to oversee and manage the preparation of Butlin's periodic management accounts, to support decision making and enable the business to understand its financial performance on a weekly and periodic basis. You will work with key stakeholders across the business to provide insightful analysis, financial modelling and ad-hoc reporting, making recommendations to support effective decision making. You will be working in a growing team, and with a wide range of internal stakeholders across the Butlin's resorts and in our support centre.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Management Accounting & Reporting: You will lead the weekly, month-end, and year-end P&L close process, ensuring accurate and timely completion of journals. Your responsibilities include preparing management accounts, reviewing financial variances, and reporting performance insights. You'll also support annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning by collaborating with operational teams.
2. Financial Analysis: You'll analyse financial data to identify trends and recommend actions, producing ad-hoc analyses and financial models to aid decision-making.
3. Cost Control & Efficiency: Monitoring business costs and driving efficiency improvements across departments will be crucial for optimising financial performance.
4. Stakeholder Engagement: As a business partner, you'll provide financial guidance to departmental heads and present reports to non-finance teams and senior leadership, ensuring they understand financial implications.
5. Compliance & Controls: Maintaining a strong internal control environment is essential, including compliance with regulations and standards, and completing monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
6. Team Leadership and Development: You'll mentor junior team members and contribute to their development as well as having an input on team structure and responsibilities, processes and improvements.
7. Ad Hoc Projects: You'll lead or support finance transformation projects, providing financial insights to ensure informed business decisions.

About You:
The ideal candidate should possess a professional qualification such as CIMA, ACCA, or ACA, along with experience in a management accounts role within a similarly sized business, preferably in a senior capacity. You need to have a strong background in planning, reporting, and financial analysis, paired with advanced Excel skills that include data analysis and financial modelling. Familiarity with ERP systems, such as ERPx, is essential, and you should have a demonstrated ability to quickly learn new systems. You should be self-motivated, proactive, and confident, with an accurate and detail-oriented approach that allows you to identify and implement process improvements effectively. Additionally, strong stakeholder management skills are necessary for engaging with resort finance teams and supporting office teams in building effective relationships.

About Butlin's:
At Butlin's, we're all about fun, excitement, and adventure by the bucketload! For over 80 years we've been delighting hundreds of thousands of guests each year, whether on a non-stop action family break or our epic Adult only Big Weekenders. Ask any of our team, past and present, and one of the best things they'll say about working at Butlin's is our culture! We're all about providing our guests with an Altogether More Entertaining and Fun Break, brought to life through our three mighty values. So, if you want a role where you Create Smiles, where you aren't afraid to Get Stuck In and where the team genuinely Cares For Each Other - this could be the perfect fit for you. There has never been a more exciting time to join Butlin's!