Management Accountant

Location: We offer Choice-Based Working
, giving you the flexibility to work from anywhere in the UK. You'll also have access to our Konica Minolta and Regus offices nationwide, with occasional travel as the business requires.

Package:

• 26 days' holiday (plus bank holidays) - with the option to buy more
• Access to award-winning learning content and targeted development opportunities
• Enhanced family leave and life assurance
• A paid day off to focus on your mental health
• A generous pension plan to help you grow your future
• Exclusive discounts on activities, tech, and dining
• One paid volunteering day to give back to your community
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for you and your immediate family

As our next Management Accountant, you'll deliver accurate and timely management accounting, forecasting and financial analysis that enables effective performance management and decision-making. The role supports the monthly reporting cycle, maintains robust financial control over assigned areas, partners with budget holders and provides clear insight into revenue, costs, profitability, cash and business performance.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts for assigned business areas, including journals, accruals, prepayments, allocations and balance sheet reconciliations.

2. Produce clear variance analysis and commentary that explains performance against budget, forecast and prior periods.

3. Support the annual budget, rolling forecast and longer-term planning processes through robust assumptions, schedules and financial modelling.

4. Partner with budget holders and operational stakeholders to improve cost control, forecast quality and understanding of financial performance.

5. Maintain strong control over assigned balance sheet accounts, ensuring reconciling items are understood, supported and resolved promptly.

6. Support revenue, gross margin, overhead, headcount, working capital and cash-flow analysis as required.

7. Provide financial input to business cases, projects, investment proposals and process improvement initiatives.

8. Improve the efficiency, consistency and automation of management reporting and accounting processes.

We want your recruitment experience to be transparent, inclusive, and engaging - with clear expectations, open conversations, and space for you to be yourself.

• Screening Call: A friendly conversation with one of our Talent Acquisition team members - a chance for us to get to know each other.
• Interview (via Teams): Meet the hiring team and learn more about the role.
• Offer Stage: If we're a great fit, our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch with an offer. From there, our HR Operations team will take care of you.

• Strong management accounting knowledge, including journals, accruals, prepayments, allocations and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Good understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital and the relationship between operational and financial drivers.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and financial modelling capability.
• Ability to translate detailed financial information into concise commentary, risks, opportunities and recommended actions.
• Advanced Excel skills, including structured models, lookups, pivots and data analysis.
• Experience of ERP, consolidation, planning or business intelligence systems.
  
  Experience of SAP S/4
  
  HANA, Black Line or Power BI is advantageous.
• Sound understanding of financial controls, accounting policies, evidence requirements and reporting deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication with confidence working with non-finance stakeholders.
• Qualified, part-qualified or actively studying toward a recognised accounting qualification, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Practical experience of month-end accounting, management reporting, budgeting or forecasting.
• Strong analytical ability with high standards of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to organise competing priorities and deliver reliable outputs to demanding deadlines.
• Confidence challenging assumptions, investigating variances and following issues through to resolution.
• A collaborative and service-focused approach to finance business partnering.
• Growth mindset: actively develops technical and commercial knowledge and applies learning to improve outputs.
• Working digitally: uses systems and data effectively to improve accuracy, insight and efficiency.
• Collaboration:
  
  works constructively across…