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Management Accountant

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The Management Accountant will serve as a key strategic advisor to the Water, Air Quality and Fire Risk Assessment businesses, providing financial analysis and operational support to drive profitability, enable growth initiatives, and ensure robust financial governance. The role delivers actionable insights that enhance decision‑making and partners closely with operational and commercial leadership teams to achieve financial targets, ensuring strong governance, accurate reporting, and commercially sound support.

Main Duties

Job Objectives and Responsibilities:
- Prepare and present monthly management accounts for a division of Marlowe Environmental Services that specialise in Water, Air Quality and Fire Risk Assessments, ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant standards.
- Review project, entity and contract performance, ensuring profitability is maximised and corrective actions are identified early.
- Promote financial accountability across operational teams by explaining results, risks, and opportunities clearly.
- Deliver detailed performance analysis including revenue, margin, cost drivers, and operational KPIs.
- Identify financial risks and opportunities, working collaboratively to implement improvement plans. Prepare and present clear and concise Balance Sheet Reconciliations.
- Support periodic reviews with senior stakeholders, providing clear and actionable commentary.
- Strengthen working capital management, including WIP control, revenue recognition, cash collection, and billing accuracy.

An experienced Management Accountant
Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to understand business performance
A candidate capable of hitting the ground running, given the urgency and complexity
Experience in fast-paced or transformation environments
- Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent).
- Proven experience in management accounting, ideally within the Environmental Services industry.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data into clear insights.
- Proficiency in Excel and experience with accounting software (e.g., SAP, Maximo, Coupa).
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence non-financial stakeholders.
- A proactive, problem-solving mindset and a keen eye for process improvement.

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Delivering the exceptional, every day

Our purpose: our expertise, care, technology, and insight create amazing work environments, helping our customers be exceptional every day.
Our promise to our people: a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day.
Our promise to our customers: a trusted partner creating exceptional environments for your customers and people, adding value every day.
- Our culture – our core values and how we behave: We are one Mitie: we work as one to deliver a seamless, unrivalled service. We are all in it together, if we can help a customer or colleague in any way, we will. We are one Mitie.
- We are built on integrity and trust: integrity and trust are at the heart of all we do. We are the face of company. We treat others as we would like to be treated. We are proud to work for Mitie.
- We go the extra mile: whether its keeping things running smoothly in a safe environment, looking for new ways to do things better or fixing problems, going the extra mile for our colleagues and customers, and keeping our promises is in our DNA.
- Our diversity makes us stronger: we are very proud of our rich and diverse culture and backgrounds. Our diversity creates ideas and insights. Everyone at Mitie has a voice and is treated as an equal.
- Our customers' business is our business: we are a partner, trusted for our expertise and for putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.