Financial Accountant

The Management Accountant will manage one Finance Assistant and will play a key role in producing monthly management accounts, statutory accounts compliance, supporting audit, budgeting, forecasting, and managing payment cycles. This role is well-suited for a detail‑oriented professional who excels at taking initiative, addressing challenges, and enhancing workflows within a collaborative team setting.

Our client, a well‑established organisation based in North Kent, is seeking a Management Accountant to join them on a full‑time and permanent basis. The successful candidate will be formally qualified, with demonstrable experience in management accounting, consolidation and statutory accounting within a compliance‑focused environment.

This role offers a hybrid working pattern.

• Prepare monthly management accounts, ensuring clarity, precision, and timely review for the Finance Manager. This includes supporting the accounts with high‑quality, balance‑sheet reconciliations.
• Provide confident client‑facing support, attending regular finance meetings with the client to discuss operational or process matters.
• Manage a broad range of advanced technical accounting activities, including generation and construction accruals, and detailed fixed asset register.
• Maintain financial governance, including oversight of payments and bank instructions, statutory books, loan note registers, sales invoice approvals, and overall integrity of portfolio financial records.
• Review the payments and bank instructions for approval.
• Prepare the corporation tax payments calculation and manage payments.
• Partner with stakeholders, providing high‑quality financial information to Finance Managers, resolving queries promptly, and building trusted relationships both internally and externally.
• Manage the statutory audit process, liaising with auditors and compiling the statutory audit working papers for submission.
• Process and update the annual operating budget and forecasts in the accounting system.

• A completed formal qualification is required (ACA, ACCA or CIMA Qualified).
• Management accounting and statutory accounting experience.
• Previous people‑management experience is required to be considered.
• Experience in working closely with senior stakeholders.
• Experience working within a compliance‑focused environment.
• Clearly communicate technically complex financial issues.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• A highly organised approach with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Will consider a first stepper from practice.

• A competitive salary range from £60,000 - £65,000 per annum.
• Generous holiday leave + bank holidays.
• Employer pension contribution.
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Provisions.
• Group Life Assurance Scheme.
• Volunteering days.
• A collaborative and supportive company culture.

We encourage all qualified candidates to apply now for immediate consideration.