Assistant Management Accountant – Cyber Full Time

UK Power Networks (Operations) Ltd
Assistant Management Accountant – Cyber

Reference Number – 79510

This Assistant Management Accountant – Cyber will report to the Finance Manager – Support Finance and will work within the Finance directorate based in our Crawley office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of 30,000.00 and a bonus of 7.5%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) – 3 days in the office and 2 remote

Close Date: 06/09/2024

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
• Discounted access to sports and social clubs
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Leap into an exciting career with us at an electrifying time in the energy industry! Here, you’re not just joining any team – you’re aligning with an Employer of Choice where Finance goes beyond just crunching numbers.

We are looking for an enthusiastic assistant management accountant to help support the finances for our Cyber security department in a newly created role.

Cyber security is a significant area of growth for UK Power Networks – we are investigating across the medium-term to build new capabilities and grow the team protecting our networks from Cyber attack.

You will work with both the Support Finance Manager and the IS Management Accountant and will help in supporting the finances for our Cyber security department.

To be successful in this role, you will have some prior experience working in an accountancy function – calculating and posting journals as part of managing a month-end process. You are comfortable, and have experience of, producing and delivering financial summaries and analysis – highlighting deviations from plans and reasons for our financial results. You will also work with the Cyber security team to manage the financial forecast – ensuring it reflects reality.

Whilst this is an assistant role, and you will be supported by the team around you.

You are looking to grow in this role which has scope for progression – towards being the sole partner for the Cyber security management team.

You will work in our Crawley office, although there will be ad-hoc travel to our London office where some of our IS team are based – for monthly management meetings along with regular business partnering.

Dimensions:

Support Finance is a team of 5 responsible for Business Partnering with 9 directorates across UKPN. Support Finance sits within the wider Finance Business Partnering team of 35.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Help produce monthly management accounts which represent company performance.
• Identify and investigate variances to plan and ensure these are communicated and understood by the business.
• In-person attendance & contribution to regular management meetings with leaders from the business.
• Help prepare the annual budgets and monthly rolling forecasts.

Qualifications/Skills:

• Experience of independently calculating and posting journals, as part of an active month-end process.
• You will translate financial data into value adding insights, easily understood by the business.
• Advanced Excel skills (PivotTables, SUMIFs, XLOOKUPS)
• Part Qualified or early studier (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
• Experience with SQL, PowerQuery, PowerBI & other AI tools is desirable but not essential.

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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