Capita Gas Registration and Ancillary Services Ltd (CGRAAS) is the provider of the registration service for gas installation businesses in Great Britain and the Isle of Man. The Gas Safe Register is a service concession granted to Capita by the Health & Safety Executive GB and HSWI Isle of Man.

The role of the Management Accountant is to assist in the preparation and maintenance of complete and accurate financial records, concentrating on the reconciliation of receivables and responding to customer account queries. The role is varied and provides support across all finance activities for the CGRAAS scheme. This role will also involve other central government accounts such as Dept. for International Trade, HMRC performing month end activities, forecasting, business planning and variance analysis.

For the right candidate, this role has real scope to drive efficiency and automation along with great development opportunities – broadening into more complex challenges on the Gas account and the potential to support across other challenges in the JCT vertical.

The role will report into the Head of Finance.

Job title:

Management Accountant

Job Description:

What you'll be doing:

• Ensure accurate and up-to-date financial information is available on customer accounts

• Respond to Finance support queries raised by customer or CSR’s, ensuring that any issues are reported or resolved in a timely and efficient manner

• Ensure credit account applications comply with business rules

• Ensure that all invoicing and payments of receivables associated with the CGRAAS scheme are prompt, securely banked and reconciled

• Monitor customer balances to ensure outstanding debts or overpayments are followed up and promptly recovered or refunded in line with CGRAAS procedures, liaising with Key Account Managers in resolution of issues where appropriate

• Month end reporting

• Reconciliation and variance analysis of Actuals to Forecast and Business Plan

• Approve and post journals – accruals, standard adjustments, and cross charges

• Ad hoc analysis and query resolution

• Exception reporting and variance investigation

What we’re looking for:

• Ideally Part Qualified Accountant with progression towards accounting qualification

• Hands on and enthusiastic individual looking for career development

• Keen to learn, drive efficiency and automation

• Inquisitive mindset – able to take initiative to explore and investigate issues to resolution

• Able to analyse, evaluate and present financial information to a high standard

• Confident and able to quickly establish solid working relationship with wide variety of stakeholders

• Good organisational skills with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy

• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines

• Ability to communicate with Non-Finance individuals

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular Excel

About Group Finance

Our Finance Function is one of Capita’s central corporate functions and is supporting the financial needs of the business. Our teams are creating smarter, faster financial processes across a complex organisation to ensure consistency with training, technology and knowledge sharing. We’re providing clear insight to teams across the business and empowering them to make effective, meaningful decisions. Join us and discover better as you build a stronger financial future for Capita.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive base salary (dependent on experience)

• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave

• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice

• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more

• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology

• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

• #LI-Remote

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

To view our Covid-19 and process adjustments information, please visit the Capita Careers site.

Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.

Location:

Home-Based - GBR

,

United Kingdom

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent