Management Accountant

MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT

CENTRAL LONDON (4 Days Office 1 Day Home)

55,000 to 65,000 + BENEFITS

We're partnering with a highly successful, PE-backed organisation operating from its London Head Office. Following significant investment and continued growth, the business is now looking to hire an experienced Management Accountant to support the Financial Controller and play a key role in developing a robust month‑end close and reporting structure.

This is a newly formed team, so the successful candidate must be comfortable building and embedding processes from the ground up, improving reporting, implementing controls, and thriving in a fast‑paced environment.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a qualified accountant with a continuous improvement mindset, who enjoys business partnering, adding value, and helping shape a growing finance function.

• Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, take ownership of the management accounting process, ensuring accurate and timely reporting across the group.
• Review, build and improve a strong and efficient month‑end close process, ensuring accurate journal entries, reconciliations and reporting outputs.
• Prepare monthly management accounts, annual accounts and statutory reporting, including variance analysis and insightful commentary.
• Build, prepare and maintain accurate balance sheet reconciliations, including accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, and intercompany transactions.
• Review revenue and P&L performance versus budget/forecast with senior stakeholders (including MDs across group companies), discussing performance drivers and maintaining accountability.
• Ensure reporting meets internal standards, governance requirements, and is consistently audit‑ready.
• Continuously review and enhance accounting processes, internal controls and workflows across the finance function.
• Assist with the assessment and implementation of a new finance system.
• Identify inefficiencies and implement automation, standardisation and best practice processes.
• Support audit and compliance activity by ensuring documentation, processes and controls remain robust.
• Lead audit evidence collection and assist with statutory accounts preparation.
• Prepare and submit VAT returns and ONS returns.
• Deliver ad‑hoc financial analysis to support business decision‑making.

• Must be a Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) – strong finalists will be considered.
• Strong experience as a Management Accountant, leading month‑end and year‑end close, variance analysis and financial reporting.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge with a solid grasp of controls and compliance.
• Advanced Excel skills are essential, and experience with accounting systems such as Xero and/or Quick Books is highly desirable.
• A strong process improvement mindset, with the ability to implement streamlined workflows and robust financial controls.
• Confident communicator with excellent business partnering skills, comfortable liaising with senior stakeholders.
• Proactive, hands‑on and comfortable working in a fast‑moving environment where processes are being built and improved.

Please send your CV for the Management Accountant role via the advert for immediate consideration.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we never charge candidates a fee for our services.