Senior Management Accountant

This is an exceptional opportunity for a fully qualified accountant to support the growth and control of Checkit plc. You'll be responsible for our annual budgeting process, month end performance reporting, involved in year end and audit, and will business partner different functions, leading on their budgeting, forecasting and financial reviews. As Checkit continues on its growth journey you too will continue to develop, learn and grow.
You'll be an energetic, driven and career minded person. You're a collaborative team player with great communication skills and the willingness to get involved in a wide range of finance related tasks, learning and improving at every step of the way. You'll also have the opportunity to manage, mentor and develop our Trainee Management Accountant.

What you'll be doing

• Preparing, completing and delivering the monthly management accounts.


• Completing month end analytical reviews, comparing results to budget and forecast.


• Reconciling and reviewing monthly balance sheet.


• Providing financial analysis to departments across the business.


• Owning and delivering the preparation of the annual budget and reforecast.


• Assisting with the year-end accounting and audit processes.


• Business partnering the Operations team through analysis and insight.


• Supporting improvement to processes and continuously striving to improve own operating standards and methods in order to meet and exceed targets.


• Supporting the development of the Trainee Management Accountant.


• Completing adhoc projects to support the function and drive improvements.
  
  Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with a background in similar roles.


• SME finance experience, appreciating the multi-faceted requirements of a role of this type.


• Experience in completing monthly management accounts and month end / year end processes.


• Comfortable with data sets that need to be understood and unpicked.


• Experienced in budget forecasting and reviews.


• Background in finance business partnering.


• People management and leadership skills with the ability to develop junior team members.


• Ability to articulate complex issues concisely and succinctly to non-finance audiences.


• Problem solving skills, able to influence solutions by proposing evidence-based recommendations.


• An analytical and data-driven mindset.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Meticulous, proactive, enthusiastic, and a close eye for detail.


• Ability to prioritise workload and work well towards strict targets and deadlines.


• Good Microsoft Excel knowledge including advanced features like power pivot, sumifs, v-lookups, etc.


• Experience of using finance systems. Previous knowledge of Sales Force and Certinia would be beneficial.


• Based within commutable distance of Fleet, Hampshire.
  
  About Checkit

Checkit optimises the performance of people, processes and physical assets with connected digital solutions. We help companies with remote, deskless workforces to schedule, manage and analyse the activities of their teams to deliver improved productivity, engagement and cost savings. Via digital assistants that provide guided workflows, powerful dashboards that provide insights into critical activities and bring dark operations to light, and smart sensors that monitor critical assets and building facilities, we give leadership teams the ability to schedule and plan activity, and know what is happening as it happens, while making life much easier for their teams at the frontline. These real-time workflow, monitoring and analytics services enable safe and productive work, efficient operations and data-driven insight to continually improve performance in large, complex organisations.
We work across four main sectors - healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences and biotech; facilities and building management; retail; and hospitality. We help our customers with challenges as diverse as keeping vaccines at the correct temperature; reducing stock loss and waste for food retailers; reducing time spent on audit and compliance; repurposing tens of thousands of working hours previously spent on tasks we now automate; and monitoring best practice and care quality. Our clients include many NHS trusts, BP, Waitrose / John Lewis Partnership, Sodexo, Hallmark Care Homes and Center Parcs.
Checkit is a publicly traded business headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with its operations centre in Fleet, UK and a US operation based out of Tampa, Florida. We currently have over 160 employees and are growing rapidly.

Checkit offer a range of benefits designed to give you the opportunity to learn and develop your skills, provide for your future, look after your routine healthcare, and feel protected if life throws you a curve ball. Our benefits include:

• Everyone gets a generous amount of leave, above the statutory levels, to help you rest and recharge


• Your birthday off in addition to your annual leave allowance


• Up to 2 mental wellbeing days off per year, to take the time to reset and look after yourself


• Life insurance at 4x your basic salary


• Up to 20 paid sick days in any rolling 12 month period


• Income protection insurance to pay your wages if you need extended time off work due to illness


• Health cash plan to help with the costs of optical, dental and support for your mental wellbeing


• Access to Help@Hand health & wellbeing app


• Contributory pension scheme


• Share award scheme, allowing you to be rewarded for our future success


• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, and paid loss of pregnancy leave


• Up to 60 days "work from anywhere" per year, allowing you to work from overseas


• Unlimited access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning


In addition, we have a remote-first, work-where-it-works culture, meaning that in most jobs, you'll be able to work from home for the majority of the time, going to one of our offices in Cambridge or Fleet only when you need to collaborate with your team. For this role you'll need to be in Fleet once or twice per week.