The Culina Group Senior Management Accountant undertakes a key role to partner in the delivery and development of the functional Culina Group Head Office cost centres including finance processes, controls and reporting. An important role in helping to deliver a quality service to key stakeholders, pushing finance knowledge and skills down through management layers to improve overall financial capability and accountability.

The role is the key finance interface for Group directors of IT, HR, Finance, Facilities as well as other head office functions.

Key responsibilities of a Senior Management Accountant:

• To build trust and confidence in the numbers reported to key stakeholders and their teams
• Continue to build on the centralisation of IT procurement to ensure transparency of numbers reported
• Ensure the finance processes around the centralisation of IT and Facilities are well managed
• Producing timely, relevant and accurate management information as well as explaining variances to plan
• Working collaboratively with stakeholders to build budgets and forecasts and ensuring that variances are fully explained and understood
• Influencing stakeholders, where required, to ensure that finance objectives are delivered – including reporting and planning deadlines
• Deliver the finance reporting cycle in line with Group requirements (to include Weekly, WD6 Flash, WD10 month end consolidation and WD12 SAP upload files)
• Outline and report financial trends especially vs Budget and year on year that impact on the company’s ability to deliver budget
• Assist in the preparation of the annual financial statements and assist in the external audit process, meeting group deadlines
• Assist with modelling and submitting the budgets and reforecasts as required by Group
• Be an active part of the management team, ensuring the voice of Finance is heard
• Manage and develop the Assistant Management Accountant, managing all staff issues as necessary
• Be aware of the Muller “GO” system of financial control and adhere to it (as a minimum)