Management Accountant

We're recruiting a qualified Management Accountant on behalf of a well-established, privately-owned specialist logistics business headquartered in Essex. With over 30 years in operation, our client is a market leader in their niche managing complex international supply chains for some of the world's leading food and ingredients businesses. They operate a network of sites across the UK and Northern Europe, handling hundreds of thousands of tonnes of product annually.

It's a business with genuine scale, strong accreditations and a real commitment to quality and sustainability.

This is a broad, hands-on role reporting directly to the Group Financial Controller, sitting at the centre of a busy finance function.

About the role:

• Produce monthly management accounts, P&L, cash flows and variance analysis
• Lead on VAT calculation, presentation and payment
• Manage the purchase order system and monthly review of sales invoices
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset schedules and bad debt provisions
• Review and amend monthly pre-payments and accruals
• Support the annual budget cycle and periodic forecasting
• Prepare, analyse and interpret business KPIs
• Take a lead role in annual audit preparation
• Develop and maintain project costing models and standard costing documents
• Liaise with financial and non-financial stakeholders up to MD and Commercial Director level

What we're looking for:

• Fully qualified accountant ACA, ACCA or CIMA
• Minimum 2 years' experience in a management accounting role
• Strong analytical and numerical ability with excellent attention to detail
• Confident communicator comfortable working with both finance and non-finance teams
• Proactive, commercially minded and decisive
• Willingness to travel to European locations on an ad hoc basis

This is a great opportunity for a qualified accountant who wants genuine breadth combining technical accounting with commercial reporting in a complex, multi-site business.