Management Accountant
Based: Dartford
This role does not provide visa sponsership
We're looking for a qualified Management Accountant to join our team and play a key role in delivering financial insight, supporting business performance, and driving informed decision-making across the organisation.
This is an excellent opportunity for a recently qualified or post-graduate finance professional who wants to broaden their commercial experience, work closely with senior stakeholders, and gain exposure to forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and business planning within a dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead month-end and year-end close activities, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Prepare monthly management accounts, providing clear commentary on financial performance, key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Review and report on recharge centres and designated overhead cost centres, ensuring accurate cost allocation and visibility of expenditure.
- Produce monthly workload summaries and management information for both internal and external activities.
- Manage weekly cash flow forecasting and reporting.
- Support quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, and periodic business reviews.
- Analyse financial performance against budgets and forecasts, identifying key variances and trends.
- Partner with commercial and operational stakeholders, providing financial insight to support decision-making.
- Develop strong working relationships across the business to promote financial accountability and understanding.
- Support external audit activities and ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory, and internal reporting requirements.
- Maintain the integrity and accuracy of financial data and reporting systems.
- Identify and implement improvements to financial processes, controls, and reporting efficiency.
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis and support business projects as required.
About You
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
- Strong financial reporting and analytical capability.
- Experience in building relationships with stakeholders
- Commercial awareness and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Experience of performance measurement and business case preparation.
- Strong communication skills and the confidence to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
- A collaborative, resilient, and continuous improvement mindset.
Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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