Management Accountant

CMA Recruitment Group is retained on an exclusive basis to appoint a qualified Management Accountant, on a part-time permanent basis, for a well-established Southampton charity. The organisation operates a group of services across the city and employs almost 200 people, with a turnover of around £6m. It is unusual in that it delivers much of its work in areas where commercial providers have withdrawn, and any surplus is reinvested rather than distributed. The culture is deliberately family friendly and the working pattern is genuinely flexible.The position is 24 hours per week and the organisation is open on how those hours are arranged, whether that is three full days or spread more widely across the week. Thursday mornings in the office are the one fixed commitment, as that is when the senior team meets.What will the Management Accountant role involve? Preparing the annual statutory accounts and acting as the main point of contact for the external auditorsProducing monthly management accounts for the groupBuilding and maintaining budgets and forecasts, broken down to individual site levelReporting site performance against budget to operational managers and to the board, which meets five to six times a yearSupporting the payroll process, including an upcoming provider reviewMaintaining financial controls, including segregation of duties across banking and authorisationWorking alongside the existing Finance Manager, with genuine scope to take on wider responsibility over ..... full job details .....