Management Accountant

This role is responsible for the production of full management accounts, forecasting and business partnering. The role is expected to provide ownership of outputs, controls and business insight – not simply transactional processing. It will work closely with Finance Operations, the Management Accountant and business stakeholders to ensure accurate billing, cost control, cash flow visibility and timely management information.

• Own the business’s month-end close and reporting process, including revenue, direct costs, overheads, accruals, prepayments, deferred income and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare and review the management accounts pack with clear variance analysis, commentary and actions against budget, forecast and prior periods.
• Drive the monthly invoicing cycle, working with the operations/commercial teams to ensure onboarding, memberships, sales invoices, revenue recognition and deferred income are complete and accurate.
• Oversee supplier PO‑to‑pay compliance, ensuring supplier invoices are coded to the correct entity, location, project, cost centre and purchase order, with appropriate accrual/prepayment treatment.
• Maintain cash flow forecast, including aged debtors/creditors insight and forecast assumptions for the wider group cash flow model.
• Own group overhead reporting, allocation methodology and monthly recharge journals, ensuring costs are consistently coded, evidenced and explained.
• Prepare, post and reconcile inter‑company recharges between entities/business units, ensuring balances agree, are supported by an audit trail and are cleared on a timely basis.
• Oversee the Workshop Group subsidiary management accounts pack prepared by the assistant management accountant; review the P&L, balance sheet reconciliations and commentary before submission.
• Business‑partner with senior leadership team and operational heads to explain results, investigate variances, identify risks/opportunities and support cost control decisions.
• Own business rates management, lead periodic cost reviews across business rates, utilities, parking, facilities and supplier spend to identify savings, billing errors and process improvements.
• Maintain a robust month‑end timetable, working papers and evidence file for management reporting.
• Coach and support junior finance colleagues on coding discipline, reconciliations, cut‑off, management accounts preparation and issue escalation.
• Support the Group Finance Manager with audit schedules, year‑end close, statutory audit queries and continuous improvement of finance processes and controls.
• May require business travel across Plexal and related group sites.
• Ability to manage and influence through both face‑to‑face and virtual team environments.
• This role is intended to sit above pure transactional processing and below Group Finance Manager level.

• Competence in clear business communication.
• Strong month‑end discipline with the ability to manage multiple reporting deadlines without close supervision.
• Commercially analytical; able to interpret P&L, balance sheet and operational drivers and turn numbers into clear actions.
• Confident stakeholder manager who can challenge coding, spend, forecasts and operational assumptions constructively.
• Advanced Excel skills, including reconciliations, lookups, pivots, modelling and clear review trails.
• High attention to detail with a strong control mindset and willingness to improve processes, not just follow existing ones.
• Able to prepare concise commentary and present financial information clearly to non‑finance colleagues.
• Experience using Power BI or Dynamics Business Central.
• Comfortable improving workflows in a finance system environment.

• Finalist or newly qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Evidence of continued professional development in reporting, systems or process improvement.
• Experience producing or owning monthly management accounts, including variance analysis, commentary, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience with revenue recognition, deferred income, supplier cost control and PO‑to‑pay compliance.
• Experience preparing or reviewing cash flow inputs, aged debtors/creditors and…