Role: Management Accountant
Contract: Full Time (37.5 hours per week), Permanent
Salary: £36,225 - £40,624 per annum
Closing Date: 23rd September 2024
Interviews are expected to take place on w/c 30th September 2024
New opportunity not to be missed! Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Management Accountant to join our Finance team based in London. In return, you will receive a competitive salary plus excellent benefits.
About Us
We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently.
Together with our partners, we support thousands of homeless young people each year.
The Finance team plays a key role at Centrepoint with a focus on customer service. We support the organisation by producing monthly management accounts ensuring that there is reliable and informative financial information available.
Value for money plays an integral part of our planning. We are responsible for setting and monitoring budgets working with and in support of our budget holders to enable Centrepoint to deliver our strategic objective of providing a home and a job for all young people we support.
Treasury management is a vital function to ensure we make the most of our finances, that our income is collected in a timely manner and supplier and staff payments are accurate and on time. We check that expenditure is properly authorised in accordance with our financial delegations and regulations.
Finance is also responsible for the safeguarding of Centrepoint’s fixed assets.
What you’ll be doing…
- Producing monthly management accounts
- Preparing high-quality monthly management reporting
- Streamlining and automating month end processes
- Producing regular balance sheet reconciliations
- Working closely with the wider Finance team
- Helping deliver the Finance Functional Strategy
What we’d be looking for from you…
- Some knowledge of financial processes, procedures and accounting standards
- On-the-job experience of assisting with month-end processing
- Experience of managing and developing staff
- Intermediate Excel skills
Why join Centrepoint?
In return for your efforts you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:
- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
- Healthcare cash plan (Cover the costs of a wide range of medical treatment including Dental, Optical, Complementary and Alternative therapies).
- Private Medical insurance
- Income protection
- Employer pension contributions of 5%
- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
- An interest-free travel loan
At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all of our colleagues are made to feel included in the work we do and that we value the rich diversity within the organization.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people’s services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.
Centrepoint’s policy is to recruit, employ and promote people on the basis of their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees and volunteers receive equal treatment.
