Management Accountant

Elevation Recruitment Group; Bradford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevation Recruitment Group partners with a growing Bradford business to recruit a Management Accountant for its head office. You’ll work with operational leaders across depots, turning data into insight that drives profitability and prudent spend.

This role sits in a fast-moving, multi-site finance team where your analysis informs senior decision-making and performance reporting. You’ll refine cost reporting, support budgets and forecasts, and partner with senior managers to improve operational

Qualifications

• Experience in cost control, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Advanced Excel and confidence working with large data sets.
• Commercial mindset and ability to relate with stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Producing monthly performance reports that give stakeholders clear, useful insight.
• Analyzing actual versus budget and explaining deviations.
• Detailed cost analysis across departments and depots to spot opportunities and risks.
• Keeping cost schedules accurate and ready for monthly variance analysis.
• Partnering with senior managers to improve operational performance.
• Supporting budgets and forecasts.
• Developing the reporting to provide sharper insights.
• Supporting the audit and ad hoc analysis on projects across the business.

Skills

Cost control

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Advanced Excel

Large data sets

Commercial mindset

Education

ACCA or CIMA Qualified / Part-Qualified

Job description

Elevation are exclusively partnered with a growing business in Bradford looking for a Management Accountant to join its Bradford head office. It’s a fast-moving, multi-site operation where finance sits close to the action, and this role is about more than reporting. You’ll be the person who explains what’s driving performance across the business, and you’ll help senior managers act on it.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, you’ll work closely with operational leaders across the depots, so your analysis will have a direct impact on profitability and on how the business spends its money.

What you’ll be doing

• Producing monthly performance reports that give stakeholders clear, useful insight
• Analysing actual versus budget and finding the reasons behind the numbers
• Detailed cost analysis across departments and depots, spotting opportunities and risks
• Keeping cost schedules accurate and ready for monthly variance analysis
• Partnering with senior managers to improve operational performance
• Supporting budgets and forecasts
• Developing the reporting to give the business sharper insight
• Supporting the audit, plus ad hoc analysis on projects across the business

What you’ll bring

• ACCA or CIMA Qualified / Part-Qualified
• Experience in cost control, forecasting and variance analysis
• Advanced Excel and confidence working with large data sets
• A commercial, curious mindset and the confidence to build relationships at all levels

Why apply

This is a business with real momentum, and the role has scope to grow with it. You’ll get a lot of exposure to senior stakeholders and the chance to shape how performance is reported and understood.