# Head of Management Accounts

**Company**: Government Legal Department
**Location**: Bristol, South West
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: GBP 60,412 - 71,542 per year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced finance professional to lead GLD's Management Accounting function and help shape the department's financial planning and decision-making.

The successful candidate will oversee budgeting, forecasting, management accounting, and fee-setting activities, providing high-quality financial insight to support senior leaders. They will work with a wide range of stakeholders, manage complex financial information, and play a key role in ensuring GLD effectively balances its income and expenditure.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

- Lead GLD's annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and fee-setting activities.

- Provide management accounts and financial insight that support strategic decision-making.

- Partner with senior leaders and budget holders, offering trusted financial advice and guidance.

- Drive improvements to budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

- Analyse financial performance to identify risks, trends, and opportunities.

- Build collaborative relationships across the organisation to support effective financial management.

- Lead, support, and develop an HEO team member.

Person Specification:

- Behaviours: Making Effective Decisions, Seeing the Big Picture, Working Together, Delivering at Pace.

- Essential Skills & Experience: Budgeting, Forecasting, Advanced Excel skills, Good working knowledge of IFRS Accounting standards, Experience of co-ordinating a complex finance consolidation process, Excellent communication skills.

- Desirable Skills & Experience: Fee setting, Familiarity with government finance including Supply Estimates and Government Financial Reporting Manual, or similar processes, Experience in using Power BI reporting.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary: GBP 60,412 - 71,542 per year

- Flexible working arrangement: Hybrid

- Opportunity to work in a collaborative and supportive environment

- Chance to contribute directly to the successful financial management of the organisation

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## Skills

### Required
- budgeting
- forecasting
- advanced excel skills
- ifrs accounting standards
- complex finance consolidation process
- excellent communication skills

### Nice to have
- fee setting
- government finance
- power bi reporting

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