Why This Role Stands Out
This Management Accountant role at Lanes Group offers a fantastic opportunity to drive financial insights and impact within a leading utility services provider, supporting strategic decision-making and cost-control initiatives. You'll thrive here if you're a proactive finance professional eager to develop your analytical and budgeting skills while contributing to a respected company. Apply to join their collaborative finance team and advance your career.
Quick Overview
Job Description
Management Accountant
Lanes Group is a leading nationwide utility services provider with over 4,500 dedicated employees. Our diverse subsidiaries drive our success across various sectors, contributing to a remarkable turnover of over £500 million. We are committed to excellence and innovation, ensuring we provide industry leading services to our clients and stakeholders.
Department
Finance works closely with operational and support teams across the UK, providing financial expertise, governance, reporting, and commercial insight to help the business make informed decisions and achieve its strategic objectives.
The team is responsible for maintaining robust financial controls, managing budgets and forecasts, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, and delivering accurate financial information across the business. Through proactive support and analysis, Finance helps drive performance, accountability, and continuous improvement at every level of the organisation.
The role:
This role delivers accurate monthly management accounts with clear variance insights to support decision‑making. Responsibilities include leading budgeting and forecasting, monitoring KPIs, and driving cost‑control initiatives. Working closely with department heads, you’ll provide actionable financial analysis, maintain financial models and reporting tools, ensure compliance with internal controls, and support year‑end audit and statutory reporting. The role also manages balance sheet reconciliations and provides ad hoc analysis for key business initiatives.
Hours: Monday to Friday – 37.5 Hours per week
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Leeds, LS12
Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
- Prepare monthly management accounts, including detailed variance analysis and commentary.
- Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to support strategic decision-making.
- Lead the finance teams input into budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy and alignment with business objectives.
- Drive cost control initiatives and identify opportunities for financial optimization.
- Collaborate with department heads to deliver actionable financial insights and guidance.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance financial models and reporting tools to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and adherence to financial policies.
- Support year-end audit activities and statutory reporting requirements.
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations to maintain data integrity.
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis to inform and support key business initiatives.
Qualifications & Experience:
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified.
- Proven experience in a management accounting role.
- Previous audit experience preferable.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient in Excel.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines.
- Knowledge of Power BI or other data visualization tools and financial systems (e.g., Microsoft D365, NetSuite) preferred.
Living the Company Values:
By embedding our companies core values and purpose into each role, ensures that every employee, regardless of their role or level, understands how their individual development and contributions align with our purpose of ‘improving today for a better tomorrow’.
Each role and value has an alignment to set proficiency levels and expectations, this role holder is expected to:
- Leading: Acts as a role model, shaping the learning agenda and influencing change.
- Agile: Anticipates learning needs, adjusts quickly to changing operational contexts.
- Nurturing: Supports the development of others through coaching and structured development plans.
- Engaging: Inspires and motivates learners, builds trust and credibility
- Safe & Secure: Ensures all learning is aligned to safety and compliance standards.
Your Contribution to the company:
- Strive to be always positive and constructive
- Adhere to all company policies
- Straight talking about the facts of the situation – open discussions are the best way to find solutions
- Help others through communicating clearly
- Deliver on commitments
- Ensure that any ideas that may enhance the productivity or systems of the company are brought to the attention of Senior Management, or your colleagues
- Deliver our Company Values understanding that by working together in unity we are ‘Stronger Together’
Equality, Diversion & Inclusion
At Lanes Group, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. We believe that our differences make us stronger and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all employees. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups. Join us in our commitment to creating a more inclusive and diverse world.