Commercial Management Accountant:Software Projects (Hybrid)

Echo; Walsall; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Maternity & Parental Leave

Pension Scheme

Health & Wellbeing

Cycle to Work

Training & Development

Diversity & Inclusion Networks

Job summary

Echo Managed Services in the UK is seeking a commercially focused Management Accountant to join our Finance team. You will own monthly reporting, financial controls and project accounting for our software business, delivering accurate information and insights into profitability and forecasts.

The role combines technical accounting with commercial analysis and stakeholder engagement, ideal for someone who enjoys telling the story behind the numbers and driving process improvements.

Qualifications

• Qualified, part-qualified or actively studying towards ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Experience preparing monthly management accounts.
• Strong understanding of accruals, prepayments, depreciation, amortisation and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience of project accounting, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP (or similar), SUMIFS, Logical formulas, data reconciliation and analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance audiences.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• High levels of accuracy, ownership and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate monthly management accounts and supporting analysis.
• Post and review month-end journals, including accruals, prepayments, depreciation and amortisation.
• Reconcile and maintain key balance sheet accounts, resolving discrepancies promptly.
• Perform detailed revenue, cost, margin and variance analysis.
• Review accrued and deferred income to ensure accurate revenue recognition.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and cash flow planning activities.
• Assist with year-end reporting and external audit requirements.
• Develop meaningful financial reports and performance dashboards.
• Support continuous improvements to financial processes, controls and reporting.
• Take ownership of financial reporting and controls across software projects.
• Partner with Project Managers to establish budgets, forecasts and financial milestones.
• Track project expenditure against approved budgets and explain variances.
• Monitor project profitability, revenue, costs and margins.
• Review project timesheets, resource allocation and supplier costs.
• Support accounting treatment of software development costs, including capitalisation and amortisation where appropriate.
• Monitor work in progress, accrued income, deferred income and unbilled revenue.
• Identify financial risks, cost pressures and forecasting changes early.
• Drive improvements in project reporting consistency, accuracy and efficiency.

Skills

Management accounting

Financial analysis

Stakeholder comms

Advanced Excel

Forecasting

Revenue recognition

Education

ACCA/CIMA awareness

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Power Query

Power Pivot

Xero

Oracle

Job description

Echo Managed Services in the UK is seeking a commercially focused Management Accountant to join our Finance team. You will own monthly reporting, financial controls and project accounting for our software business, delivering accurate information and insights into profitability and forecasts.

The role combines technical accounting with commercial analysis and stakeholder engagement, ideal for someone who enjoys telling the story behind the numbers and driving process improvements.