Management Accountant

On behalf of The Government Property Agency, we are looking for a Management Accountant (Inside IR35) for a contract until 31st March, 2027 based Hybrid working, 1 day per week in any GPA office – Birmingham, London, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich, Swindon, Nottingham or Cardiff.

The Government Property Agency is an Executive Agency of the cabinet office. It is changing the way the Civil Service works and is at the forefront of Government's transformation agenda; reshaping the relationship civil servants have with their place of work. The Agency is central to the delivery of key Government policies including moving 22,000 Civil Service roles out of London by 2030 and tackling climate change by contributing to the Net Zero agenda. To do this we are delivering a major change programme across the UK and consolidating our portfolio in order to save £1.4 Bn over 10 years.

Beyond the bricks and mortar, the GPA is about providing great workplaces for our people.

This is an ambitious and exciting task, for which we need innovative people, with strong commercial acumen, who are passionate about visualising and implementing customer needs.

As a Management Accountant , your main responsibilities will be:

- Supporting the assets under construction process, mainly with preliminary reviews and where needed corrections.
- Monthly tailored service billing and reconciliations
- Facilitating forecasting and reporting
- Producing management accounts for relevant budget holders
- Producing financial reports for corporate stakeholders and GPA clients
- Supporting internal and external audits
- Preparing balance sheet reconciliations including accruals and prepayments
- Investigate variances and ensure transactions are accounted for correctly, as well as identifying trends, risks and opportunities in the financial data
- Supporting the payroll and staff costs, ad-hoc recharging and purchase to pay processes
- Preparing and processing journals

Essential:

- Experience in preparing and analysing management accounts, financial reports, and budgetary information to support effective decision -making by stakeholders and budget holders.
- Proven ability to perform balance sheet reconciliations, including accruals, prepayments, and journal processing, ensuring accuracy and compliance with financial controls .
- Strong analytical skills with experience investigating financial variances, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities, and ensuring transactions are correctly accounted for.
- Experience supporting month-end and year-end financial processes, including forecasting, reporting, service billing, reconciliations, and audit requirements.
- Knowledge of core finance processes, including purchase-to-pay, payroll and staff cost accounting, recharging activities, and assets under construction (AUC) accounting principles .
- Excellent numerical, organisational, and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and present financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

DE&I Commitment

As a Disability Confident employer, GPA encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, GPA welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".