We are seeking a talented and driven Senior Management Accountant to join our team and play a key role in delivering high-quality financial insight and support across the organisation.
Job Type – Full time, Permanent
Salary circa £50k plus non contractual bonus
Work location – in person
About WPA
WPA is a leading UK not-for-profit health insurer, with over 125 years of experience in offering a range of plans for individuals, families, and businesses. We've earned globally recognised standards and numerous awards for customer service, product innovation, and technology. As a not-for-profit, we reinvest back into improving our services and keeping premiums competitive for our members.
Benefits
We offer an attractive starting salary alongside a bonus package. Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and you will have access to our private medical insurance cover, a WPA cash plan and private remote GP services. Other benefits include purchasing additional annual leave, pension and length of service awards which make us stand out as an employer of choice.
Social events are fun and frequent, including BBQs on the patio, annual parties, team building and sporting events.
About the role
We are looking for a highly skilled and commercially focused Senior Management Accountant to join our Finance team. This is a key role within the organisation, responsible for delivering accurate, insightful financial information that supports strategic decision making and drives business performance. You will take ownership of core financial processes including reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, whilst partnering with stakeholders to drive performance and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities
- Prepare, review and deliver monthly management accounts on a timely basis.
- Lead month end close processes ensuring that all reconciliations, adjustments and control activities are completed.
- Assist in the preparation and review of regulatory and compliance filings including solvency reporting, FCA and VAT returns so that timely submissions are made.
- Lead the production of year-end financial statements and act as a primary point of contact for external auditors, managing the audit process from planning through to completion to ensure timely delivery, accuracy, and compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
- Support the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning cycles to ensure alignment with organisational objectives.
- Provide detailed reporting and analysis on business matters including variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior periods as well as identifying risks and opportunities to drive cost control.
- Work collaboratively with the CFO and Group Financial Controller to engage with a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation.
- Deliver financial reporting and analysis to senior stakeholders, effectively communicating key insights, risks and opportunities to inform and influence business decision-making.
- Act as a role model and ambassador for the finance function, demonstrating professionalism and integrity, and representing the team both internally and externally on financial matters.
- Develop, review, and enhance financial processes, systems, and controls ensuring a strong governance framework which mitigates risk and drives continuous improvements and efficiencies.
About you
- Professional qualified accountant (for e.g. CIMA or ACCA) with strong technical accounting knowledge.
- Minimum of 2 years’ proven experience or equivalent, in management accounting or senior finance role including reporting, planning and financial control processes.
- Extensive knowledge in financial reporting, statutory accounts, audit and regulatory compliance (ideally within a regulated environment but not essential).
- Exceptional Excel skills with the ability to analyse complex data sets.
- Experience of data extraction and reporting tools such as SQL (desirable).
- Exposure to coding / automation tools to improve processes (desirable).
- Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Highly effective communicator with the ability to present financial information clearly at all levels and work collaboratively with others.
- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage complete deadlines and deliver high quality outputs in a fast-paced environment.
Application Support
If you could benefit from having any additional support with your application for whatever reason, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Personnel Services Team in confidence so that we can discuss it further. We are happy to help in any way we can.
We are all different, be yourself and thrive
WPA is a not for profit environmentally friendly organisation whose ethos is treating others as we would like to be treated including our fabulous team, customers, and local community. We hire great people; we believe in everyone and recognise that individual differences is what makes our team stronger.
Closing date: This remains flexible subject to us finding the right candidates, we therefore recommend that you apply at your earliest convenience.
Pay: £50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Taunton TA1 2PE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you hold an Accounting qualification?
Work Location: In person
