Financial & Management Accountant

Why This Role Exists

Absolute Collagen has strong commercial momentum and a leadership team that is increasingly data-driven in how it makes decisions. The business needs a commercially minded Management Accountant who can produce accurate, well-structured monthly reporting with clarity and pace, and who has the commercial curiosity to go beyond the numbers and help the business understand what is driving performance.

This role has been created to strengthen the analytical and reporting capability of the finance team. The Financial Controller holds strategic oversight of the function; this role exists to own the management accounts process end to end, contribute meaningfully to budgeting and forecasting, and build the financial insight infrastructure that a PE-backed, high-growth consumer brand needs to scale with discipline.

As Financial & Management Accountant, you will take ownership of the monthly management accounts process, producing accurate P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reporting with clear, commercially relevant commentary that goes beyond variance explanation to tell the business what is actually happening and why it matters.

You will work closely with the Financial Controller on budgeting, reforecasting and ad hoc financial analysis. You will build relationships with commercial, marketing and operations stakeholders, supporting budget holders and non-finance stakeholders in understanding and managing financial performance. You will also play a role in strengthening financial controls and month-end disciplines as the business continues to scale.

This is a role that requires equal measures of technical competence and interpersonal confidence. You will need to be rigorous in the numbers and clear in how you communicate them, comfortable communicating financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

• Deliver accurate, timely and commercially intelligent management accounts that give the leadership team clear visibility of business performance and the confidence to act on what they see.
• Build a more structured and reliable budgeting and forecasting process, moving the business from reactive financial reporting to proactive, forward-looking analysis that actively informs planning.
• Build effective working relationships with stakeholders across the business, supporting stronger financial understanding and decision-making.
• Strengthen month-end processes and financial controls, so that growth does not outpace governance and the finance function retains credibility as the business scales.
• Support the CFO and Financial Controller in developing the reporting and insight infrastructure that a PE-backed business at this stage of growth requires, including the dashboards, KPI frameworks and analytical tools that make finance genuinely useful to the leadership team.

• Management accounts are produced accurately and on time each month, with commentary that provides genuine commercial context, not just numbers with explanations attached.
• The budget and reforecast process is better structured, more collaborative and more useful to the leadership team than when you joined, with improved accuracy and faster turnaround.
• You have established strong working relationships with key commercial and operational stakeholders who seek your input proactively, not just when they need a number from finance.
• Month-end close runs consistently and reliably, with your ownership of the process reducing pressure on the Financial Controller and giving the team greater confidence in its outputs.
• Financial controls are stronger and better documented, and the audit process runs more smoothly as a result of improved reconciliation discipline and process clarity.
• You have introduced at least one meaningful improvement to how the business tracks and reports financial performance: whether in the management accounts pack, the forecasting model or the commercial KPI framework.
• Where qualification studies are ongoing, you are progressing positively and applying that learning in practice

• Prepare monthly management accounts including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow statement, with clear and commercially meaningful variance commentary.
• Own the month-end close process, including preparation of accruals, prepayments, depreciation charges and intercompany reconciliations.
• Maintain accurate balance sheet reconciliations and ensure all control accounts are reviewed and signed off on a monthly basis.
• Manage the month-end timetable, co-ordinating with the Assistant and Financial Controller to ensure deadlines are met consistently.
• Business partnering with budget holders to provide support and to gather better information on the numbers.

• Support the annual budget process, working with budget holders across the business to build accurate, well-challenged cost and revenue plans.
• Assist in maintaining and updating rolling…