Management Accountant in Swindon, Wiltshire

Management Accountant
First City Nursing and Care, Swindon
£42,000 to £48,000 depending on experience | Full time | Permanent

Are you a management accountant who wants your work to make a real difference? First City is a CQC Outstanding rated homecare provider with a turnover of around £30 million, now part of the Cera group. We support thousands of people to live well at home across Swindon, the Isle of Wight and Wiltshire, and we manage the homecare market on behalf of Swindon Borough Council and the Isle of Wight Council.

We are looking for a Management Accountant to join our established finance team at First City House in Swindon. You will be part of a friendly, experienced team that includes finance assistants and apprentices, and you will manage a small team of your own. You will report directly to our Managing Director and work closely with our Head of Finance. This is not a role where you will be working in isolation. You will have colleagues to share the workload with, and you will be the person they turn to for leadership, guidance and support.

What you will be doing

You will own the monthly management accounts, delivering them by the 8th of each month with clear commentary that helps the leadership team make good decisions. Our payroll team processes pay for our large care workforce, and you will use your sound understanding of payroll to review their work, making sure everyone is paid accurately and on time and that we meet National Minimum Wage rules and UKVI sponsor requirements for our overseas colleagues. You will lead budgeting and reforecasting, report performance against budget, and build the cost evidence that supports our fee negotiations with councils and the NHS.

You will line manage a small finance team, setting priorities, holding one to ones and helping each person develop. You will work alongside our senior leadership team, taking a co-production approach to budgets and plans, and build strong relationships with our system partners, including the ICB, local authorities and NHS colleagues. You will also mentor our finance apprentices through their qualifications and work with finance colleagues across the Cera group. We are keen to modernise, so we want someone who will look for better ways of working and make good use of technology and automation.

What we are looking for

You will be qualified or part qualified (CIMA, ACCA or ACA), or qualified by experience, with a strong track record of producing management accounts in a fast paced, high volume environment. You will have a sound, up to date knowledge of payroll regulations, HMRC requirements and pension auto enrolment rules, experience of managing or supervising a small team, confident Excel skills, and the ability to explain the numbers clearly to people who are not finance specialists. Experience in health and social care, local authority contracts or sponsor licence compliance would be a real advantage.

Why join us

You will join a supportive, close knit finance team in an Outstanding rated organisation, with genuine room to grow within a larger national group and the chance to shape how our finance function develops. Alongside a salary of £42,000 to £48,000, you will receive private healthcare, a salary sacrifice pension scheme, access to the Blue Light Card discount scheme, and confidential support through our Health Assured employee helpline.