Management Accountant

work.life; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Monthly wellness package

Team joy budget

Quarterly socials

Job summary

Work.Life is seeking a finance professional in the UK to own month-end close, management accounts, and site reporting in a fast-growing flex workspace business. You will partner with operations and leadership to turn numbers into decisions on pricing, occupancy and costs.

The role suits someone who enjoys tight month-ends and commercial conversations that follow. The ideal candidate holds CIMA/ACCA/ACA (or finalist) with 2–4 years in management accounting and strong Excel skills.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years' experience in management accounting, ideally in a multi-site business.
• Strong month-end experience, including balance sheet reconciliations and full management accounts.
• Advanced Excel - comfortable building models, lookups and pivots.
• Clear communicator who can explain numbers to non-finance colleagues.
• Organised, accurate and able to hit deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close to a tight timetable, including accruals, prepayments, deferred income and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Own the monthly management accounts, with clear commentary on performance against budget, forecast and prior year.
• Produce site-by-site P&Ls and contribution analysis across the portfolio.
• Maintain the fixed asset register, including fit-out capex and depreciation.
• Account for leases and landlord arrangements correctly (FRS 102 / IFRS 16 as applicable).
• Contribute to the KPI pack and dashboards for self-serve metrics.

Skills

Advanced Excel (lookups, pivots)

Strong communication skills

Organised and deadline-driven

Education

CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified, or a finalist

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Salary Our expected range to hire within is £45-50k.

The Role

This is a hands-on role at the heart of a lean finance team at Work.Life. You'll own the month-end close and management accounts, support site-level and board reporting, and partner with operations and leadership to turn the numbers into decisions - on pricing, occupancy, costs and new sites.

It suits someone who enjoys both the challenge of a tight month-end and the commercial conversations that follow it.

What You'll Do:

Month-end and management accounts

• Own the monthly close to a tight timetable, including accruals, prepayments, deferred income and balance sheet reconciliations
• Own the monthly management accounts, with clear commentary on performance against budget, forecast and prior year
• Produce site-by-site P&Ls and contribution analysis across the portfolio
• Maintain the fixed asset register, including fit-out capex and depreciation
• Account for leases and landlord arrangements correctly (FRS 102 / IFRS 16 as applicable), including management agreements and revenue-share deals

Reporting and KPIs

• Contribute to the KPI pack: occupancy, revenue per desk / sq ft, membership revenue, churn, meeting room and ancillary income, and site margins
• Help build and improve dashboards and reporting so the business can self-serve key metrics
• Help prepare board and investor reporting packs for the Finance Director / Finance Controller

Budgeting, forecasting and planning

• Support the annual budget process, working with site and operations managers
• Help maintain the rolling and cash flow forecasts
• Support new-site appraisals and business cases with financial modelling and post-investment reviews

Business partnering

• Partner with operations, sales and community teams - explaining variances and helping them take action
• Analyse pricing, discounting and cost-to-serve to protect and improve margins
• Challenge spend and identify cost savings across utilities, cleaning, facilities and suppliers

Controls and systems

• Own and strengthen financial controls, processes and month-end efficiency
• Prepare the year-end audit file and support statutory accounts preparation
• Prepare VAT returns and support other compliance as required
• Contribute to systems improvements and automation across the finance stack
• Support B Corp impact reporting where finance data is needed

About You

Essential

• CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified, or a finalist
• 2-4 years' experience in management accounting, ideally in a multi-site business
• Strong month-end experience, including balance sheet reconciliations and full management accounts
• Advanced Excel - comfortable building models, lookups and pivots
• Clear communicator who can explain numbers to non-finance colleagues
• Organised, accurate and able to hit deadlines

Desirable

• Experience in flexible workspace, real estate, hospitality or another multi-site, recurring-revenue business
• Knowledge of lease accounting (FRS 102 / IFRS 16)
• Experience with NetSuite
• Confident using AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT to speed up analysis and reporting
• Experience in a scale-up or PE / investor-backed environment

Personal qualities

• Commercially curious - asks "why" behind the numbers
• Proactive about improving processes, not just running them
• Collaborative and approachable, in keeping with our people-first culture
• Comfortable with pace and change in a growing business

Why Join Us?

• Pivotal, high-impact role in a growing, mission-led business
• Autonomy to build and lead a world-class sales engine
• Strong values-driven culture with a human, team-first ethos
• Hybrid working model with access to beautiful neighbourhood workspaces
• Competitive compensation, aligned to business success

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Who we are:

Work.Life is a flex workspace provider for businesses who care about people.

We believe that happy teams deliver measurable benefits for businesses. That's why everything we do, from workspace design to delivering a best-in-class personal service, is designed to create happy working environments.

We have shared workspaces across London, Reading and Manchester; with 8,000+ members; and an amazing team of nearly 70 Work.Lifers who share our ambition to redefine the workspace experience for the better.

Why you'll love Work.Life

Work happiness is our passion, and this starts with our own team. We offer a supportive working environment, plenty of training and development opportunities, competitive salary, monthly wellness package, team joy budget, quarterly socials and more, so you can work happier.

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