Financial Accountant​/Management Accountant

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT / MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT

(12 MONTH CONTRACT STARTING FEB 26 - POSSIBILITY OF PERMANENT)

WEST LONDON | HYBRID WORKING (2 DAYS PER WEEK IN THE OFFICE)

£60,000 to £70,000 BASE + 10% BONUS FOR CONTRACT COMPLETION

We're exclusively partnering with a highly successful, people-first business with multiple global offices and a growing UK finance function, supporting operations across five international entities.

• Owning the month-end close for your allocated entities, including close timetable management, accurate cut‑off, and maintaining a clear audit trail.
• Preparing and posting month‑end journals across your portfolio (accruals, prepayments, deferred income, payroll, fixed assets, FX revaluations, provisions and other UK GAAP adjustments).
• Producing monthly UK GAAP management accounts (P&L and balance sheet) with clear commentary and variance analysis vs budget, forecast and prior year, providing insight and analysis to support management decision‑making.
• Providing ad‑hoc financial analysis and advice to the management team and stakeholders.
• Ensuring accurate revenue recognition in line with client contracts and applicable reporting standards, including appropriate accounting for accrued and deferred income and associated costs.
• Partnering with operational and project stakeholders to validate performance, billing triggers and improve financial accuracy across entities.
• Maintaining strong balance sheet controls through timely reconciliations across key accounts.
• Supporting intercompany accounting across multiple jurisdictions, including management of intercompany agreements, recharges, journals, reconciliations and stakeholder query resolution.
• Assisting with treasury and cash management, including cashflow forecasting, working capital management.
• Supporting budgeting and reforecasting, delivering KPI reporting, commercial insight and decision support to senior management.
• Playing a key role in statutory reporting and the year‑end audit process, including audit schedules, responding to auditor queries, and liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
• Identifying, designing and delivering process improvements.

• ACCA, ACA or CIMA Qualified or a strong Finalist, with dual Management Accountant and core Financial Accountant experience.
• UK GAAP understanding (FRS 102 exposure beneficial) and confident preparing/posting month‑end journals through close.
• Strong balance sheet control capability with a disciplined approach to reconciliations and audit readiness.
• Commercially minded with excellent analytical skills.
• Confident communicator, able to work with cross‑functionally stakeholder relationships.
• Process improvement mindset; experience with systems projects/automation is desirable.
• Experience of Sage would be an advantage.

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

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