Head of Management Accounting | Build, Improve, Move into FP&A

Butler Rose Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus up to 15%

Hybrid working - 2 days in office

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Butler Rose Ltd in Central London is seeking a Head of Management Accounting to lead a 14-person team and drive improvements across the function, with a clear path toward FP&A leadership. The role sits within a PE-backed international professional services group, headquartered in Central London, with 26 brands across 24 locations.

Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, you’ll elevate processes, controls and reporting quality, partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver timely,

Qualifications

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified.
• Experienced in leading a management accounting function or sizeable team.
• Rigorous around accuracy, controls, reconciliations and reporting quality.

Responsibilities

• Understand the management accounting function. Challenge it. Strengthen it. Make it better.
• Review existing processes, reporting and controls to ensure the team is producing accurate, timely and genuinely useful financial information.
• Develop beyond traditional management accounting to FP&A, commercial finance and forward-looking analysis.

Skills

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Technical accounting

Financial analysis

Business partnering

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified

Job description

Head of Management Accounting | Build, Improve, Then Broaden into FP&A

Head of Management Accounting

Central London | Hybrid - 2 days office | Performance Bonus up to 15% Quarterly

This is more than an opportunity to lead a management accounting team.

It's an opportunity to take ownership of a significant finance function within a £700m+ turnover, private equity-backed international professional services group - review how it operates, improve it, and potentially use the role as a platform into FP&A leadership.

The business operates through 26 brands across 24 global locations and is headquartered in Central London.

The opportunity

Reporting directly to an ambitious and highly regarded Group Financial Controller, you'll inherit a team of 14 Management Accountants, predominantly working remotely overseas.

Your initial mandate is straightforward:

Understand the management accounting function. Challenge it. Strengthen it. Make it better.

You’ll review existing processes, reporting and controls to ensure the team is producing accurate, timely and genuinely useful financial information.

This isn't simply about getting the numbers out.

The business wants someone who can bring greater rigour to the numbers while improving the quality of insight behind them - helping finance engage more effectively with stakeholders across a complex, international organisation.

Once established, the opportunity becomes broader.

There is a clear expectation that the successful individual can develop beyond traditional management accounting, gaining increasing exposure to FP&A, commercial finance and forward-looking analysis.

What we’re looking for

You’ll already be an accomplished management accounting leader who combines strong technical accounting capability with credible people and stakeholder management skills.

Ideally, you will be:

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
• Practice trained, with a strong technical foundation
• Experienced in leading a management accounting function or sizeable team
• Rigorous around accuracy, controls, reconciliations and reporting quality
• Comfortable reviewing existing processes and identifying opportunities for improvement
• An effective business partner who can communicate financial information beyond the finance team
• Comfortable operating within a large, fast-moving and commercially ambitious organisation

You don't need to arrive with an FP&A leadership background. The opportunity to develop into that space is part of the attraction.

Why consider it?

There are plenty of Head of Management Accounting roles that offer responsibility for producing the numbers.

This one offers the opportunity to shape how those numbers are produced, improve what they tell the business and influence what the finance function becomes next.

Alongside a competitive base salary and extensive health and wellbeing benefits, there is an individual performance-related bonus paying up to 15% quarterly.

Hybrid working is well established, with typically just two days per week in the Central London office once you're fully embedded in the role.

The position is available due to a leaver, so someone available at relatively short notice would be welcomed. However, experience, capability and long-term fit take priority over availability.

If you're a technically strong finance leader who enjoys improving a function rather than simply inheriting one - and you'd like your next move to open the door to broader FP&A leadership - this is a conversation worth having.

To be considered for the role you must be eligible to work in the UK without restriction. This role is being advertised by Butler Rose (AGY) and managed by Dave Marchant [e-mail]

Butler Rose is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Butler Rose Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.