Management Accountant
Location: Gloucester Head Office with hybrid working
Contract: Permanent, full time. 8:30am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum (depending on experience), plus benefits
Mears Group is looking for a Management Accountant with strong practical experience to join our Central Finance team.
You will produce accurate management accounts, analyse financial performance and support forecasting and budgeting across multiple branches. You will also work with finance and non-finance stakeholders, providing clear financial information to support business decisions.
This role would suit someone with solid Management Accounts experience who is looking to develop their commercial finance skills and broaden their experience.
About the Role
- Produce monthly management accounts accurately and within deadlines
- Support quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting
- Maintain and reconcile balance sheet control accounts
- Analyse financial performance and investigate variances
- Provide financial insight to finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Analyse and manipulate financial data using Excel
- Support business units to improve efficiency and profitability
- Challenge financial data and systems to identify issues and improve accuracy
Key Criteria
- Strong practical experience in Management Accounts
- Experience analysing financial performance, investigating variances and producing financial information for stakeholders
- Strong Excel skills and confidence working with financial data
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Good communication and relationship building skills, with the ability to work with finance and non-finance colleagues
- Proactive and inquisitive approach
- CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualification would be beneficial
- If you have relevant Management Accounts experience, but are not yet professionally qualified, we’d still love to hear from you and discuss your experience and journey towards qualification so far.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Family friendly policies
- Generous pension scheme
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing support
- Mears Rewards and recognition scheme
- Share saver scheme
- Volunteering leave
- Annual Mears Family Fun Day
All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK. Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.
To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21, have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.
Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.
Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:
Joe Monger ([email protected])If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.
At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.
We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.
In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.
Skills Required
- CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified or final stage part qualified
- Advanced Excel capability
- Proven ability to analyse and interpret high volumes of data
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong communication skills with ability to engage non-finance colleagues
- Ability to build effective working relationships across teams
- Proactive, inquisitive and personable approach
- Entitlement to work in the UK (no visa sponsorship offered)
- Relevant background, identity and security checks required before employment
- If driving a Mears vehicle: over 21, held licence over 3 months, fewer than 9 points
Mears Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy additional days, plus paid volunteering time, signal a comparatively generous time-off offering. Flexible working available in many roles further supports practical time-off and balance.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Retail discounts, Cycle to Work, an employee assistance line, volunteering days, and company family events add tangible non-cash value. Access to training and UK‑recognised qualifications reinforces the broader wellbeing and development offering.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — A stated commitment to pay at or above the Real Living Wage and the publication of pay-related reports indicate governance and baseline fairness focus. Independent snapshots also suggest many roles meet living‑wage thresholds.
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What We Do
Mears Group is a market-leading housing and care company that provides bespoke services to our clients. We provide and manage 11,000 homes for local and central Government and are also responsible for keeping 750,000 of all social housing in the UK in good repair. Mears has 6,500 employees and a footprint across the country
