Management Accountant

Management Accountant 

Location: Gloucester Head Office with hybrid working 

Contract: Permanent, full time. 8:30am to 5:00pm 

Salary: £40,000 per annum plus benefits 

Mears Group are seeking a proactive and commercially focused Management Accountant to support our Central Finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified or part-qualified finance professional looking to develop their career within a dynamic and supportive environment. 

In this role, you will be responsible for producing timely and accurate management accounts, supporting forecasting and budgeting processes, and providing valuable financial insight to stakeholders across the business. You will play a key part in ensuring financial accuracy, improving efficiency, and supporting profitability across multiple branches. 

Mears Group is a leading provider of housing and care services in the UK, committed to making a positive difference to the communities we serve. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality services while supporting our employees with development opportunities and a strong focus on wellbeing and inclusion. 

About the Role: 

You will work as part of the finance team to support the smooth running of the accounts function and deliver high quality financial reporting and analysis. 

• Produce monthly management accounts accurately and within deadlines 

• Support quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting processes 

• Maintain and reconcile balance sheet control accounts 

• Analyse financial performance and investigate variances 

• Provide clear financial insight to finance and non-finance stakeholders 

• Analyse large volumes of data using Excel 

• Support business units to maximise efficiency and profitability 

• Challenge and interrogate financial data and systems to ensure accuracy 

Key Criteria: 

• CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified or final stage part qualified 

• Strong IT skills with advanced Excel capability 

• Proven ability to analyse and interpret high volumes of data 

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy 

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage non-finance colleagues

• Ability to build effective working relationships across teams 

• Proactive, inquisitive and personable approach 

Benefits 

• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more. 

• Generous Pension Scheme 

• Sick Pay 

• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000) 

• Share saver scheme 

• Eye test vouchers 

• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service) 

• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors) 

• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blair Drummond Safari Park, M&Ds Theme park, fully paid for including lunch 

• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers 

• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment 

• Excellent training and development opportunities 

• 25 days holiday entitlement along with bank holidays. 

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship. 

To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points. 

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.