Management Accountant

Management Accountant

Greater Belfast | Part-Qualified / Finalist / QBE | Excellent Benefits | Commercial Finance Role

Take the Next Step in Your Finance Career

Artemis Human Capital is delighted to be partnering with a successful and well-established business to recruit a Management Accountant to join their experienced finance team for a period of 15 months.

This is an excellent opportunity for a part-qualified, finalist or QBE accountant looking to take the next step in their career and gain broader commercial exposure within a busy, fast-paced organisation.

Working as part of an established finance function, you'll play an important role in the production of monthly management accounts, financial analysis and performance reporting, while working closely with stakeholders across the wider business.

This isn't a role where you'll simply produce the numbers and move on. You'll have the opportunity to understand the commercial story behind the figures, challenge performance, identify opportunities to improve efficiency and help the wider business make better-informed decisions.

Why Apply?

• Excellent opportunity for a part-qualified, finalist or QBE accountant

• Join an established and experienced finance team

• Broaden your commercial and management accounting experience

• Gain valuable exposure to business partnering and operational performance

• Opportunity to influence cost control and continuous improvement

• Work closely with senior stakeholders across the wider business

• Strong platform for future career progression

• Excellent employee benefits package

• Varied role within a successful and growing organisation

The Role

Working as part of an established finance function, you'll take responsibility for a range of management accounting and financial reporting activities across the business.

You'll work closely with both finance and non-finance colleagues, providing accurate reporting alongside meaningful analysis and insight into business performance.

The role will suit someone who enjoys a varied position and wants to develop their commercial understanding alongside their technical accounting skills.

Key Responsibilities

Management Accounts & Reporting

• Prepare and submit monthly management accounts within agreed group deadlines

• Take responsibility for key balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and resolving reconciling items promptly

• Review monthly P&L performance and provide analysis and commentary to key stakeholders

• Provide financial information and insight to support effective business decision-making

• Ensure financial information is accurate, timely and presented to a high standard

Commercial & Business Partnering

• Work closely with operational, commercial and shared service teams across the business

• Provide analysis and insight into financial and operational performance

• Support stakeholders in understanding financial results and key performance drivers

• Challenge performance where appropriate and identify opportunities to improve efficiency

• Contribute to initiatives focused on cost management and business improvement

Planning & Analysis

• Support the annual budgeting and forecasting processes

• Assist with operational performance reviews

• Analyse trends and variances, identifying areas requiring further investigation

• Support the finance team with ad hoc analysis and reporting as required

Finance Operations

• Support internal and external audit requirements

• Assist with compliance reporting

• Contribute to continuous improvement projects across the finance function

• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the wider finance team

• Provide support on additional finance projects and responsibilities as required

About You

This opportunity will suit a part-qualified, finalist or QBE accountant who has already developed a good grounding in finance and is now looking for a role that offers greater responsibility and commercial exposure.

You may currently be working as an Assistant Management Accountant, Management Accountant, Financial Accountant, Assistant Accountant or in another broad finance role and be ready to take the next step.

We're particularly interested in candidates who have:

Essential Experience

• Experience in management accounting, financial…