Senior Management Accountant

Downey Osborne is delighted to be partnering with a well-established and growing accountancy firm to recruit a Senior Management Accountant into their Outsourcing department. This is a fully remote opportunity offering the best of both worlds. You will operate in a hands-on, commercial, industry-style role while enjoying the stability, variety, and progression that comes with working in practice.

• Fully remote working
• Discretionary bonus
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Opportunity to build a long-term career within a modern accountancy firm

• ACA or ACCA qualified,
• Solid background in producing and reviewing management accounts
• Sound knowledge of core finance operations including bookkeeping, payroll, VAT, and balance sheet management
• Experience supervising finance processes and supporting junior team members
• Commercially focused with the ability to translate financial data into clear insight
• Self-motivated, well organised, and effective in a fully remote environment

• Own the preparation and review of monthly management accounts, covering P&L, balance sheet, and cashflow
• Deliver meaningful variance analysis and financial insight to aid management decision-making
• Ensure financial controls, policies, and records are robust and consistently applied
• Provide ongoing financial support and insight
• Operate as a senior finance presence across the wider business

• Build and maintain budgets, forecasts, and forward-looking financial models
• Oversee daily finance activity including bookkeeping, payroll, VAT, and balance sheet reconciliations
• Identify opportunities to enhance finance systems, reporting, and workflows alongside the wider team
• Act as a key contact for external accountants, auditors, tax advisors, banks, and other stakeholders
• Contribute to business planning, prioritisation, and operational improvement

• Assist with year-end accounting and related processes
• Support the rollout of new systems, procedures, or business initiatives
• Input into resourcing decisions, process refinement, and operational projects

• Forget the commercial context behind the figures