Assistant Management Accountant

Job Title: Assistant Management Accountant
Location: Farnborough
Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type: Full-time / Permanent
Role ID: SF17633

The Role
We have an exciting entry-level opportunity for an Assistant Management Accountant, offering excellent career prospects and support for your professional qualifications.

As part of the UK Shared Services Team, you will assist in delivering high-quality financial services to our customers. We seek candidates with a desire to start a career in finance, strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a collaborative spirit. You will have full training, professional support, and opportunities for growth.

Day-to-day, you will:

1. Ensure timely and accurate reporting at all times, taking ownership, responsibility and accountability for the delivery of the Business Finance month end close and reporting under the supervision of a Management Accountant.
2. Prepare and post journals, including accruals, prepayments, provisions and any others that help to provide timely and accurate month end accounts.
3. Attend Project/Cost Centre reviews, providing relevant feedback and challenging the numbers (assistance and development will be provided in this area).
4. Prepare Balance Sheet Packs, AP06 & AP12 Statutory audit packs and monthly QinetiQ Management Packs.
5. Support Cost Centre Managers, project and program managers alongside Management accountants.
6. Assist Management Accountants with forecasting and budget rounds, gaining experience and taking a lead when ready.

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week where you will be on site at Farnborough 2 days per week.

Experience of the Assistant Management Accountant:

1. Knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Office, in particular Excel is essential.
2. Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills associated with working at a cross-functional level.
3. Self-motivated, thorough, disciplined and detail focused.
4. Excellent analytical, evaluative and problem-solving abilities.
5. Ability to adapt pace of delivery to meet business requirements with a continuous improvement approach.
6. Highly customer focused in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.

Qualifications of the Assistant Management Accountant:

1. To have attained or working towards an accountancy level Qualification i.e. CIMA, ACA, ACCA or AAT (or equivalent) OR to provide evidence of recent relevant experience in a similar role.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

Our Benefits

1. Generous holiday allowance.
2. Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance.
3. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
4. Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
5. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days' additional leave.
6. We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
7. Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community.

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those, which help the defence community.

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there's never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You'll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you'll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You'll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what's happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.