Management Accountant Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Posted 22 hours ago

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK water utility company is seeking a Management Accountant in Peterborough. The role involves driving financial planning and performance, producing budgets and forecasts, and ensuring compliance with financial controls. The successful candidate will be a qualified finance professional with experience in management accounting and stakeholder management. Attractive benefits include a competitive pension scheme, private healthcare, and generous leave policies. This position requires a proactive approach to continuously improve financial processes.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Private healthcare

Annual bonus scheme

26 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Life cover

Flexible benefits

Paid time off for illness

Qualifications

• Qualified Finance professional with experience in producing actuals, forecasts, and budgets.
• Experience in managing stakeholders effectively.
• Sound knowledge of financial reporting and analysis tools.

Responsibilities

• Produce financial budgets and forecasts for the business area.
• Serve as the point of contact for budget holders regarding financial data.
• Ensure compliance with financial controls policy & procedures.

Skills

Financial budgets and forecasts

Stakeholder management

Management accounting

Financial controls and processes compliance

Power BI

SAP analysis and reporting

Education

Qualified Finance professional (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) or equivalent experience

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Job description

Management Accountant page is loaded## Management Accountantlocations: Peterboroughtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: DC230**Management Accountant Circa £42,000 dependent on skills and experience Permanent, full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time Peterborough****Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team!**Reporting into the Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving financial planning, performance, and decision-making across your business area. You will be deliver high-quality financial insight, budgeting and forecasting, and commercial support that enables informed decision-making in a complex and regulated environment. You will be accountable for delivering accurate actuals, forecasts, and budgets for both the area you support and other areas within the remit of the Finance Manager and your team. You will be responsible for maintaining compliance with financial controls policy & procedure, escalation of control issues and communicating key financial controls messages across the virtual finance teams for your designated business area. You will deliver the business planning and management accounting processes for the designated business area for OPEX and CAPEX, driving continuous improvement of processes, communicating key messages and timescales to stakeholders. The budget areas you will be responsible will be of a mid-size and complexity.**Key responsibilities*** Responsible for producing financial budgets and forecasts for your designated business area* Single point of contact for assigned budget holders for provision of all financial data and information* Working with your team and the Financial Controller, ensure key milestones and budget objectives are built into the timetable and plan* Ensure compliance with the budget timetable and process* Drive standardised continuous improvement in the budget process in conjunction with your team* Deliver the forecasting process for the designated business area, challenge assumptions in the bottom up process and ensure forecasts reflect an appropriate balance of risk and opportunity**As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:*** A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%* Private healthcare for your peace of mind* An annual bonus scheme* The opportunity to volunteer in your local community* 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays* Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)* Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle* Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental* Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks* Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave* Qualified Finance professional (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) or equivalent experience* Experience in managing stakeholders* Experience in producing actuals, forecasts and budgets* Experience with management accounting* Experience of compliance with financial controls and processes* Sound knowledge and understanding of, and application of financial reporting and analysis tools (e.g Power BI, SAP analysis and reporting applications) in providing high quality outputs**Inclusion at Anglian Water:**Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.**Closing date: 11th January 2026****#loveeverydrop**We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team [e-mail]’To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. More information about how we look after and use your information can be found in our .Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.