Management Accountant

**Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 per annum About the role** Motability is a major grant-making charity, supporting disabled people with transportation needs - that in turn drive life chances and independence for the individual. You'll be joining Motability a pivotal moment with our new three year £50m portfolio of grant programmes for charities and organisations ramping up, and an exciting recalibration of our innovation ambitions with the launch of a new Evidence Centre with fundingof £20m. Can you support us to answer the following questions: **What you'll be doing: Support organisational grant-making**: - To work with the Grants Programmes team to develop finance conditions for grant awards to organisations, including the timing, amount and structure of payments. - Ensure that financial evidence submitted in a grant claim meets the grant's purpose and relevant award conditions. - Provide Motability with high-quality data analytics and reporting that drives evidence based decision-making, maximising impact and value for money. - Support any shifts in operating model, particularly where Motability operates through others or in partnership, so that Motability maintains clear sight of its impact and value for money. **Financial Planning and Analysis**: - Engage with the Head of Finance and senior managers across Motability to deliver a shared understanding of future income, introducing planning methods to rapidly flex the organisation to meet the uncertainties in such income forecasts. - Support the preparation of business cases for capital and revenue initiatives. - Support the preparation of projected yearly financial statements. **Budgeting and Forecasting**: - Include grant expenditure elements as part of collaborative annual business planning and budgeting process, ensuring delivery of the business and financial strategy and reforecasts. **Project Work**: - To be an active member of the Finance Transformation project team: remit to cover structure of data held (for example, databases, Chart of Accounts), efficient end-to-end processes in terms of data capture, subsequent processing and surfacing information,to provide meaningful output for statutory and management information purposes. **Accounting and Performance Management**: - To deliver a monthly financial reporting process that is timely and accurate, that also engages with Heads of Departments, building on and developing existing reporting. - Stand in for the other Management Accountant in the production of monthly management accounts, to deadlines, for review by the Head of Finance and Finance Director. Identify key variances and issues affecting financial performance, whilst looking for improvementopportunities. **What will make you great in this role?** You will be a commercially minded analyst or management accountant, able to effectively partner with our innovation, evaluation and grant-making teams to secure maximum benefit from our grants to organisations. You must have the interest and intellect tocontribute to the soft analysis of outputs, outcomes and impact alongside the hard financial inputs. **Your experience**: Must haves: - Fully Qualified ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA. - Strong academic record to degree level. - Budget preparation, forecasts and cost variance analysis. - Preparation of financial business cases. - Microsoft Excel - intermediate to advanced level. Nice to haves: - Experience of charity fund accounting, grant accounting, partnerships and allocation mechanisms. - Sage 200 accounting package experience. - Some exposure to value for money and impact studies. - Has experience of one or more ERP / ERM systems. **Reporting lines and relationships**: Reports to: Head of Finance. Key relationships: Finance Director, Director of Performance and Engagement, Director of Charitable Operations. **Extra information**: - The role is based In Harlow, Essex at Motability's offices, easily commutable from London, 30 minutes from Liverpool Street station or 18 minutes from Tottenham Hale station. - Blended working arrangement with two days a week working from home. **Benefits** ?? WHAT MOTABILITY CAN OFFER YOU ?? ? Holiday - 26 Days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after 5 years' service ?? Health and Wellbeing - We offer private health care with BUPA alongside an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and discounted corporate gym membership. We take your physical AND Mental Health seriously, with ourdedicated mental health first aiders you will have support and understanding from your colleagues. ? Family Friendly - We offer enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay and we understand that families require flexibility, we provide time off for dependants, flexible working hours and the option to work from home. Life Assurance is 4 x your salary. ? Celebrating Success - We love to recognise people that go above and beyond with our Spotlight Award as well as having team celebrations and social events throughout the year. ?? Our culture - In the Motability office we "dress for our day", it's an incredibly welcoming and inclusive environment where we look to support your career, we offer a mini bus service from Harlow Town centre and station for those using public transportto reach us and there are plenty of free hot beverages for when you arrive. ?? Pension - Up to 15%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5% We are a disability confident employer, feel free to make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you might need.