Assistant Management Accountant

The Vacancy

We currently have a vacancy for an Assistant Management Accountant to join our Wates Group Finance team, based in Leatherhead, supporting a range of activities across Group Finance and assisting the wider team.

We’re looking for someone who has experience in a similar role or environment and is enthusiastic about developing a career in finance. While it’s ideal if you’re already undertaking an accountancy qualification, we’re happy to support you if you’re early in your studies or planning to start soon.

You’ll need to be confident using Excel, have strong attention to detail, and be comfortable working to tight deadlines. Being a team player with excellent communication skills is essential, as you’ll be maintaining effective relationships across the business.

Key Accountabilities:

• Process monthly cost recharges across contracts and overheads
• Manage overhead costs including posting month-end prepayments, accruals, and late contract costs, and summarising monthly and year-to-date spend against budget
• Assist in Budget & Forecasting
• Support the production of monthly cost packs and other reporting as required

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary & profit share
• Flexible working – this role is office-based in Leatherhead three days a week (Monday – essential).
• Extensive corporate benefits including private medical insurance, 6% employer pension contribution, health and wellness programme, 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, and more
• Excellent learning and development opportunities to support your career progression
• Industry-leading family leave benefits including 26 weeks fully paid maternity and 12 weeks fully paid paternity

To learn more about Life at Wates, please visit: https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.