Commercial Management Accountant: Forecasting & Insight

Optimum Recruitment Group Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Job summary

Optimum Recruitment Group are exclusive with a growth client in Wakefield seeking an experienced Management Accountant to join the team and partner with the FC/CFO on budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling. This newly created role focuses on commercial insight beyond standard reporting.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will lead month-end close, develop P&L/balance sheet forecasts and work with the Systems/Data team to automate reporting.

Qualifications

• Strong management accounting experience in a reasonably complex business.
• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, part-qualified or equivalent experience.
• Strong month-end and management accounts experience.
• Practical budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills.

Responsibilities

• Preparing accurate and timely monthly management accounts, including P&L analysis, accruals, prepayments and relevant balance sheet reconciliations.
• Producing and developing reporting across all sales channels and other areas of the business.
• Analysing actual performance against budget, forecast and prior periods, identifying and explaining key variances.
• Providing meaningful commercial insight rather than simply reporting the numbers.
• Supporting the annual budgeting and regular reforecasting processes.
• Developing detailed P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts alongside the FC and CFO.
• Supporting scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to help management understand the financial impact of different trading and operational assumptions.
• Working with operational managers to understand performance and challenge assumptions where appropriate.

Skills

Management accounting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial modelling

Excel

Sage 200

Stakeholder communication

Independent working

Multi-site experience

Education

Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

Sage 200

Excel

Job description

Optimum Recruitment Group are exclusive with a growth client in Wakefield seeking an experienced Management Accountant to join the team and partner with the FC/CFO on budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling. This newly created role focuses on commercial insight beyond standard reporting.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will lead month-end close, develop P&L/balance sheet forecasts and work with the Systems/Data team to automate reporting.