Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Management Accountant
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Job Overview
The Management Accountant will serve as a key strategic advisor to the Water, Air Quality and Fire Risk Assessment businesses, providing financial analysis and operational support to drive profitability, enable growth initiatives, and ensure robust financial governance. The role delivers actionable insights that enhance decision-making and partners closely with operational and commercial leadership teams to achieve financial targets, ensuring strong governance, accurate reporting, and commercially sound support.
Main Duties
Job Objectives and Responsibilities:
- Prepare and present monthly management accounts for a division of Marlowe Environmental Services that specialise in Water, Air Quality and Fire Risk Assessments, ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant standards.
- Review project, entity and contract performance, ensuring profitability is maximised and corrective actions are identified early.
- Promote financial accountability across operational teams by explaining results, risks, and opportunities clearly.
- Deliver detailed performance analysis including revenue, margin, cost drivers, and operational KPIs.
- Identify financial risks and opportunities, working collaboratively to implement improvement plans.
- Prepare and present clear and concise Balance Sheet Reconciliations.
- Support periodic reviews with senior stakeholders, providing clear and actionable commentary.
- Strengthen working capital management, including WIP control, revenue recognition, cash collection, and billing accuracy.
What we are looking for
- An experienced Management Accountant
- Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to understand business performance
- A candidate capable of hitting the ground running, given the urgency and complexity
- Experience in fast-paced or transformation environments
- Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent).
- Proven experience in management accounting, ideally within the Environmental Services industry.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data into clear insights.
- Proficiency in Excel and experience with accounting software (e.g., SAP, Maximo, Coupa).
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence non-financial stakeholders.
- A proactive, problem-solving mindset and a keen eye for process improvement.
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- Our purpose: our expertise, care, technology, and insight create amazing work environments, helping our customers be exceptional every day.
- Our promise to our people: a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day.
- Our promise to our customers: a trusted partner creating exceptional environments for your customers and people, adding value every day.
Our culture – our core values and how we behave:
- We are one Mitie: we work as one to deliver a seamless, unrivalled service. We are all in it together, if we can help a customer or colleague in any way, we will.
- We are built on integrity and trust: integrity and trust are at the heart of all we do. We are the face of company. We treat others as we would like to be treated. We are proud to work for Mitie.
- We go the extra mile: whether it’s keeping things running smoothly in a safe environment, looking for new ways to do things better or fixing problems, going the extra mile for our colleagues and customers, and keeping our promises is in our DNA.
- Our diversity makes us stronger: we are very proud of our rich and diverse culture and backgrounds. Our diversity creates ideas and insights. Everyone at Mitie has a voice and is treated as an equal.
- Our customers' business is our business: we are a partner, trusted for our expertise and for putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
- We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home.
- We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
- When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
- We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
- We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
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Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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