• Vacancy ID:
    639
  • Closing Date: Closing Date:
    27 October 2025
  • All LocationsAll Locations:
    Reading
  • All TeamsAll Teams:
    Financial Planning & Analysis
  • Advertising SalarySalary
    £40,000 to £42,000
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  • About The Role

  • The Management Accountant helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by ensuring that managers across the organisation have accurate and up-to-date financial information upon which they can make solid business decisions, and that the organisation is able to operate effectively and efficiently, and has solid financial records that it can rely on for statutory filing and reporting.
     
    This role will be based out of our Reading site with hybrid working of 2 days per week in the office.
     
    We offer a generous pension scheme, annual leave, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people. 

    More details can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

    Candidate requirements

    To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;
     
    Essential
    • Qualified with one of the recognised CCAB accounting bodies (ACA / CIMA / ACCA / AAT)
    • Educational requirement to A Level standard (QCF level 3 / SQCF levels 6-7). 
    •  Experience of preparing management accounts and performing clear and insightful analysis in medium to large size organisations with automated processes
    • Experience of preparing budgets and forecasts, including financial modelling and variance analysis
    • Demonstrable track record of analysing complex data sets and providing actionable recommendations 
    • Evidenced experience of influencing the business to make commercially sound decisions 
    • Experience of month end close process including accruals, prepayments, allocations and reconciliations
    • Demonstrated experience of tracking the financial benefits of change
    • Proficiency in Excel including logical, modelling and text functions
    • Exposure to different accounting systems and ability to learn how to use new systems
    • Problem solver, using a variety of analytical and influencing techniques to formulate a proposed way forward. 
    • Modelling and analysis skills, including the use of Excel. 
    • Attention to detail and ability to self-check
    • Logical and organised approach.
    • Ability to work independently 
    • Able to prioritise conflicting demands, setting timetables, managing workloads to ensuring deadlines are met.
    • Proactive individual with experience working in a flexible and changing environment.
    • Ability to build highly effective and collaborative working relationships with all levels of the organisation.  
  • About Us

  • If you want to know more about the teams who work at Guide Dogs, you can find it on our Careers Page
     
    Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
     
    Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. 
     
    As a Disability Confident Employer, we are proud, whenever possible, to offer an interview to all candidates that meet our selection criteria, and who indicate they wish their application to be considered under our Disability Confident interview commitment. For more details, visit our careers site.
     
    If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier; in addition, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.
     
    Every day is different at Guide Dogs. And no person with sight loss is the same. We work side by side, on our sites and in the community, in schools and on our streets, supporting people to live the life they choose. Our staff therefore also work in different ways to support the delivery of our life changing work.
     
    Safeguarding
     
    Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

    At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually, taking into account the nature of the offence, its relevance to the role, and the time that has passed since the incident. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.
     
    Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.
     
    How to apply 
     
    You may have particular needs to be able to complete your application, If you would like support please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or [email protected]
     
    As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. 
     
     
     

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