# Management Accountant

**Company**: Howden
**Location**: Milton Keynes
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Insurance

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## Description

As a Management Accountant at Howden, you'll provide accurate and timely accounting services for business unit and operating entity reporting, alongside financial analysis that supports business planning.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Producing monthly management accounts and reporting information accurately and to agreed deadlines

- Preparing general ledger and month-end journals, including intercompany, recurring charge and international payroll entries

- Delivering monthly revenue reporting, including technical ledger postings and reconciliations

- Owning balance sheet reconciliations, investigating discrepancies and driving issues through to resolution

- Supporting the preparation of financial information for VAT and tax returns, including overseas companies and branches where required

- Providing ad hoc management reporting and financial analysis to support business planning and decision-making

- Improving reporting solutions and accounting processes to strengthen the quality and efficiency of financial information

- Maintaining accurate financial records, process documentation and procedures across relevant company systems

- Monitoring relevant accounting, legal and regulatory developments and reflecting changes appropriately in day-to-day activity

- Sharing technical knowledge with colleagues, providing supervision or mentoring where required

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

- Proven experience working as an accountant, with hands-on responsibility for management accounting and month-end activity

- Strong experience preparing journals, balance sheet reconciliations and management reporting

- Advanced Excel capability, including nested XLOOKUPs, pivot tables and data manipulation

- Sound technical knowledge of financial reporting under UK accounting standards

- Demonstrable experience producing accurate financial information to demanding reporting deadlines

- Experience investigating accounting discrepancies and resolving issues accurately and efficiently

- Exposure to payroll reporting and payroll postings is desirable but not essential

- Experience within financial services or another regulated environment is desirable

In terms of qualifications, you'll need:

- A professional accountancy qualification, passed finalist status with a recognised body such as ACCA or CIMA, or equivalent qualification through experience

- Strong A levels or equivalent

- Strong written and verbal English, with the numeracy skills required to interpret, reconcile and analyse financial information

This is a full-time, fixed-term contract role based in our Milton Keynes office, running until March 2028. The role follows a hybrid working pattern, with an expectation of three days per week in the office.

In return, Howden offers a career that you define, with a focus on diversity and supporting employees in their roles.

## Skills

### Required
- management accounting
- financial analysis
- UK accounting standards
- Excel
- financial reporting

### Nice to have
- payroll reporting
- payroll postings
- financial services

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