Management Accountant

Join an Independent Family Business with a Proud Heritage and an Exciting Future

Leightons Opticians and Hearing Care is a leading independent optical and hearing care business with a rich heritage dating back to 1928. Family-owned and family-run, we have built our success by putting people first, delivering exceptional customer care and maintaining a strong commitment to our colleagues and communities.

Today, Leightons operates 37 optical practices across the South of England, alongside two thriving hearing care businesses:
Leightons Hearing Care and The Hearing Care Partnership. As we continue to grow, we are looking for a talented Management Accountant to join our Finance team and play a key role in supporting the financial performance and control of the business.

This is an excellent opportunity for either a newly qualified accountant, an experienced professional seeking a new opportunity, or someone approaching qualification who enjoys being at the heart of the numbers.

We're looking for a hands-on finance professional who takes pride in delivering accurate financial information, maintaining strong controls and driving continuous improvement. You'll work closely with the Head of Financial Control, supporting month-end reporting, reconciliations, branch performance analysis and finance process improvements across a growing multi-site business.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys investigating variances, solving problems and making finance processes more efficient. If you thrive on ensuring the numbers are accurate and enjoy improving how finance operates, we'd love to hear from you.

• Support the preparation of accurate monthly management accounts within agreed deadlines.

• Prepare monthly trial balances and supporting schedules.

• Calculate and post accruals and prepayments, including rent, utilities and locum costs.

• Analyse branch profit and loss accounts and investigate unusual variances.

• Assist with year-end audit requirements and tax-related reporting schedules.

• Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations and investigate discrepancies.

• Reconcile NHS and corporate debtor receipts.

• Maintain robust controls over cash and card receipt reconciliations.

• Manage and reconcile customer finance schemes, investigating issues where required.

• Distribute branch financial reports and support teams with financial queries.

• Assist branches with quarterly stocktakes and related adjustments.

• Maintain the fixed asset register and ensure assets are correctly recorded.

• Provide practical finance support across the wider business.

• Process and review daily sales integrations.

• Investigate transactional differences and support accurate financial reporting.

• Identify opportunities to improve controls, reporting processes and automation.

• Support finance projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

We're looking for someone who is:

• Newly qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or actively studying towards qualification. Qualified by experience considered as an alternative.

• Experienced in preparing management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations.

• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.

• Analytical, inquisitive and confident investigating variances.

• Comfortable working with large volumes of transactional data.

• Proactive, collaborative and keen to improve processes.

• Able to communicate financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance colleagues.

• Experienced using Excel and financial systems, with an…