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At VSA we support a person’s physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing through a range of residential and outreach support services.\nWe are seeking a motivated and organised Management Accountant to join our finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced individual who is looking for a role with fewer hours, potentially coming back to work after an absence or in need of a less demanding work week.\nThis role will cover supporting the finance team in all aspects involved as stated in the duties and responsibilities below.\nWe are looking for someone enthusiastic and proactive who is keen to share their expereince and skill set and work within a small but busy team to ensure the deadlines are met.\nHours: 23hrs per week\nDuration: Permanent\n\nWork Pattern: Monday-Friday\nSalary: up to £49,133.11 FTE (pro rata part time)\n\nLocation: Castle Street, Aberdeen\nWe offer all our staff fantastic benefits including:\n- Generous Paid Holidays\n- NEST Pension Scheme\n- Refer a friend scheme\n- Ongoing Training and Development\nPurpose of Job:\nThe finance team partner the service and function management at VSA to help deliver the business plan and strategy for VSA. We do this by ensuring well founded budgets, accurate data, clear analysis and forecasts. We help the budget owners understand their key cost and value drivers in clear language. We collate data and analysis for senior and executive team members and to the Trustees through our board reporting. We deliver financial accounts that meet our regulatory requirements to our wider stakeholders.\nWe work as part of a small agile team, covering all our services and functions but with key ownership of particular services and budget holders. We work closely with the sales ledger, accounts payable, payroll and cash & banking team. In this way we support those who are caring for others.\nMain Duties/Responsibilities:\nControllership of a services and functions\nworking with the budget owner to support the budget process \nreviewing the budget vs actuals monthly analysis providing insight to the budget owner \nsupporting the Finance Director and Executive team with analysis or modelling \nPreparation of monthly management accounts and reports\nmonthly creditor & accruals schedules, provisions, deferred & accrued income, & prepayments schedules. \nclosing sales and purchase ledgers liaising with teams for accurate system cut offs \njournal preparation \nbank reconciliations \nPreparation of Annual Statutory Financial Accounts\nP13 statutory journals \ntables and notes to the accounts \nworking with the auditors\nPreparation of Annual Revenue Budgets\nworking with the budget owner as part of controllership responsibilities \nreview roll-up of budget with cost functions \nloading into netsuite \nOther\nregular review and development of financial policies and procedures \nmaintenance, assessment and improvement of financial controls \nroutine tasks: allocation of funds across all bank accounts; 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