Management Accountant – Edinburgh, Midlothian
We are Places for People Developments, we build thousands of well-designed, innovative homes across the UK each year. When we develop new places, we put everything into delivering homes and neighbourhoods that work for the whole community. We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage and maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with customer focussed people, commercial people and analytical people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.
More about your role
As a Management Accountant, you will coordinate and liaise with Development finance colleagues to collate information required to prepare and update reports. You will respond to changes in reporting requirements of the Development function through the design and implementation of new and additional reports This role would ideally suit someone with experience working within a housebuilder/developer in the private sector with knowledge of key indicators for sales and marketing including weekly reservations, sales prices, and marketing costs with the ability to carry out comprehensive variance analysis and support the Head of Finance in the production of annual and ongoing business planning. This is a hybrid role whereby travel between Preston and Edinburgh will be required. Your role will also be partly based at home to achieve a work-life balance. For more information please download our job profile available on our website
More about you
We are looking for a self-starter to come and join the team! To apply for this role you will ideally be a part qualified Accountant (CCAB), however, we would welcome applications from candidates who are QBE. You will need a strong background in management accounting and reporting and have the ability to demonstrate commitment to excellent customer service (internal & external) You will have strong technical skills and the ability to work autonomously and under pressure and will ideally have experience in operating in a diverse environment with a range of customers and deadlines. In addition, it would highly advantageous if you had experience in sales commissions, sales price reviews, marketing cost reviews and build cost reviews as well as analysis and reporting.
The Benefits
We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers. We know that there’s always more we can do to make you smile, that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:
- Annual bonus
- Excellent holiday pay and sick pay
- Pension with matched contributions
- Training
- Extra perks include huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.
What’s next?
If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.
