Methods is an established £100m Digital Transformation company, part of the Alten Group, which over the last 32 years has provided innovative business and digital technology services. We have over 50 active clients many of which have been working with us for more than 10 years.

Since our establishment in 1990, Methods has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Our mission is to improve and safeguard public-facing services. We apply digital thinking to ensure the future of our public services is centred around our citizens.

Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - we have a customer-centric value system whereby we focus on delivering what is right for our clients. We passionately support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them. building a significant private sector client portfolio.

Requirements

• Leading the management accounting and reporting processes within Methods in line with the organisations deadlines.
• Supporting the preparation of the monthly forecast and annual budget processes within Methods in line with the organisations deadlines.
• Investigating and reporting on significant forecast/budgetary variances, identifying any remedial action that needs to be taken.
• Analysing the month end financial position, investigating variances and making appropriate adjustments if necessary in line with internal procedures.
• Producing monthly financial reporting summarising the financial performance to date and providing explanations of key variances.
• Producing monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Supporting the year end audit when it comes to transaction sampling and providing evidence on Revenue, WIP, Accruals etc,
• Meeting regularly with budget holders to assess financial performance and to provide financial management information, analysis and advice.
• Ensuring budget holders and managers have an awareness of financial performance requirements, including the need for budgetary control and to provide financial awareness training where necessary.
• Supporting the preparation of regular and ad hoc financial statements, variance analysis and to produce a forecast out-turn position on a monthly basis for management review.
• Working on obtaining information that provides more detail to support reporting from the general ledger.
• Working with the Methods companies to prepare business cases and bids for new business where required.
• Working with the Sales lead to integrate financial information into the Forecast.
• Supporting other members of the Finance and Resources Team with ad-hoc projects. To include bringing together financial and activity information.
• The financial systems in use are, Salesforce, Certinia, Vena Forecast and Planning Tool and MS Excel

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Degree in relevant field, and part qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA or actively studying towards.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity
• Experience of working within a commercial financial environment
• Experience of working within a professional services business
• Competent in producing and analysing management accounts and forecast
• Excellent Business partnering ability with strong senior and director level stakeholder management.
• Working effectively within tight deadlines
• Financial management in a complex environment
• Ability to assimilate financial data to support business decision making
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to implement, manage change and achieve results within this environment
• Ability to engage, manage & lead others to ensure delivery of objectives
• Strong cross functional working skills
• Ability to grasp quickly new financial systems, Models and Processes
• Advanced understanding of MS Excel

This role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected . Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.

Benefits

Methods is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.

By joining us you can expect

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment

As well as this, we offer:

• Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social - Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes
• Time off 25 days a year
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)