Management Accountant

Berg Kaprow Lewis LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic internal finance team at a leading professional services firm as a Management Accountant. This role offers the opportunity to support business operations, produce management accounts, and enhance financial reporting processes. Ideal candidates will be qualified accountants with strong data skills and a proactive mindset, ready to contribute to a growing company. Enjoy a flexible work environment that values diversity and innovation.

Qualifications

• At least two years' experience in a professional services environment.
• Experience with large volumes of data and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Support business operations with variance analysis of budgets and forecasts.
• Produce monthly management accounts with key financial insights.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and mitigate financial risk.

Skills

Advanced Data Skills

Commercial Mindset

Relationship Building

Education

Qualified Accountant

Tools

Practice Engine

Pivot Tables

Job description

Salary Range

£60,000 - 65,000

Your opportunity

Join the internal finance team at an ambitious professional services firm, supporting colleagues in the smooth running of our growing business. This would be a great opportunity for someone with advanced data skills.

How you’ll make a difference

As a Management Accountant based in BKL’s North London office with our internal finance team, you’ll play a key role in the business operations of our group of companies, as we continue our growth plans across our range of key sectors and service lines.

By combining your technical expertise, industry experience and personal touch, your varied work will help a range of colleagues through reporting and direct support, giving essential insights into our commercial performance.

You’ll have opportunities to build relationships across the business, enhance our processes and develop your career towards a management-level role.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the business operations with variance analysis of budgets and forecasts, using underlying operating system data
• Controllership of the business’s core practice management system data and controls -Practice Engine(ourtime and billing system)
• Producing monthly management accounts with key financial insights and relevant KPIs

• Maintaining and reconciling balance sheet control accounts such as prepayments and accruals, and processing monthly and ad hoc journals

• Ensuring that transactions and processes comply with the internal controls, and mitigating financial risk by suggesting improvements

• Support and implement automation tools to make our financial reporting more efficient and accurate

• Support the production of our year-end statutory accounts and audit process

You’ll be ideal for this role if you:

• Are a qualified accountant with at least two years’ experience

• Have experience in a professional services environment

• Thrive on a variety of work, from core management accounting tasks to more complex projects

• Work with large volumes of data via pivot tables and other tools, while also identifying and implementing automated data processing solutions

• Can demonstrate a commercial and proactive mindset

• Enjoy building and maintaining trusted relationships, in person and remotely, from junior colleagues to senior leaders

• Are confident in proposing changes and putting them into action, particularly changes that aid analysis of financial performance

• Are keen to progress your career towards financial controller and management responsibilities

We know you have a lot to offer, which is why we want to give you the freedom to thrive no matter who you are or what your background is. You will have every opportunity to use your creativity in how you approach your work and the support to innovate.

Inclusion, diversity, and talent development are a fundamental aspect of who we are, and we welcome applications from candidates who share and champion these values. You will play an integral part in helping to make BKL a great place to work with a sense of belonging for everyone.

High challenge, high support

If you enjoy problem-solving and a fast-changing environment, you will thrive in this role.

As in all BKL roles, you will be able to take a flexible approach: balancing independent work with teamwork, and remote working with time in the office with colleagues.

You can get an insight into life at BKL here.

We’re proud to be one of the few Certified B Corporations in the accountancy sector. In joining us, you’ll become part of a business that’s committed to balancing profit and purpose.

Commitment to Information Security and Data Protection

At BKL, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of information security and data protection through a comprehensive framework of policies and procedures. As part of this role, you will be expected to stay informed about these policies and ensure full compliance at all times. Adherence to our policies is critical, and failure to comply may result in disciplinary action in line with company procedures.

Take your next step

If this sounds like the role for you, we’d be delighted to discuss the career you could build at BKL.

The start date of this role is as soon as possible... so we’re ready when you are!