Management Accountant

### Meet the recruiter

#### Tess Dawes

### Benefits

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

Additional holiday purchase opportunities

Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%

Enhanced family leave & policies

Share plan schemes

Free health & wellbeing services

Green car scheme

### Management Accountant

We're looking for a Management Accountant to join our Thames Water framework team.

Location: Flexible M4 Corridor - Mixture of office and home working

Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

We're seeking a Management Accountant to work closely with our Finance Manager, providing vital financial and management information that supports our local management team. This role offers the opportunity to make a real impact by supporting project financial performance and driving meaningful business decisions across our Thames Water framework.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Management Accountant, you'll be working within the finance team, supporting them in delivering robust financial reporting and commercial insight across major infrastructure projects. Your day to day will include:

Supporting the preparation of monthly project financial reports, including forecasts, cost reports, cashflow updates and budget variance analysis

Providing financial challenge to project teams, supporting decision-making across cost control, procurement and commercial reporting

Overseeing project accounting records to ensure accurate and timely recording of income, expenditure, commitments and accruals

Managing month-end close activities, including journals, reconciliations and reporting packs for approvals

Preparing clear financial analysis and management information for project reviews, governance meetings and senior leadership updates

What are we looking for?

This role of Management Accountant is great for you if

You hold a professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), or are at final stage part qualified

You have excellent commercial knowledge and demonstrable experience in a construction environment, with project accounting background

You possess advanced data analytic and excel skills

You have strong communication skills and enjoy collaborating with others

You're focused on continuous improvement and always looking for ways to enhance processes and reporting

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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Management Accountant Job Description 2026 Thames Water.docx

Location: London. Basingstoke. Kingston Upon Thames

Vacancy ID: 12346

Background check: None

Closing date: 23 Oct 2026

Contract type: Permanent

Working hours: Full Time

Flexible working: Yes

Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.

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