Group Management Accountant

Role Overview

• Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts, including journals, reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Perform detailed variance analysis, highlighting drivers of performance and key movements.
• Own the cashflow forecasting process, ensuring assumptions are reliable and reconciled to underlying data.
• Maintain and reconcile balance sheet accounts, ensuring issues are identified and resolved promptly.
• Assist in budgeting and forecasting cycles with reliable data, schedules, and insights.
• Maintain and apply key financial policies including revenue recognition and commission schemes, ensuring compliance and consistency across entities.
• Coordinate monthly payroll processing, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely submission.
• Manage and submit VAT returns, supported by accurate reconciliations and clear documentation.
• Support continuous strengthening of financial controls, documentation, and process standardisation across the group.
• Assist with group consolidation processes, including intercompany reconciliations and eliminations.
• Prepare technical accounting papers for non-routine or complex transactions with guidance from senior team members.
• Support statutory reporting under UK GAAP and liaise with external auditors during year end.
• Use Advanced Excel to analyse data, manage reconciliations, and improve monthly workflows.
• Work within the group ERP (Sage Intacct) to maintain accurate records, posting logic, and system-based controls.
• Understand system flows and contribute to improvements in integrations between ERP and operational systems.

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Experience in management accounting, month end cycles, and core financial controls.
• Strong understanding of accounting concepts, including revenue recognition and VAT.
• Advanced Excel user able to handle large datasets (lookups, pivot tables, modelling).
• Experience using ERPs, preferably Sage Intacct.
• Experience working within a multi-entity or group environment (desirable).
• Understanding of how CRM or operational systems connect to ERPs (e.g., Salesforce integrations) (desirable).
• Prior involvement in process improvement or finance system enhancements (desirable).

Tech Stack

• ERP

Benefits

• Hybrid working pattern 2-3 days onsite / week