Management Accountant

SF Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company equity scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Modern Central London office

Opportunity to build processes

Direct exposure to founders

Job summary

SF Partners is seeking a Management Accountant in Central London to strengthen finance, partner with Operations, and own inventory and gross-margin reporting. The role involves building cost processes, leading month-end close, and supporting ERP implementation with direct exposure to founders and senior leadership.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will design landed-cost methodologies, manage BOMs, review supplier costs, and deliver actionable insights across products and channels.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and management-accounting processes.
• Advanced Excel with large datasets experience.
• Experience with Power Query, macros, Power Automate or AI-enabled reporting.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy under pressure.
• Strong organisational and stakeholder-management skills.
• A proactive approach in developing processes and controls.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain teams, providing commercially focused financial insight.
• Develop COGS and cost-variance reporting across products and sales channels.
• Design and maintain landed-cost and standard-cost methodologies, including freight and duty.
• Own monthly inventory reconciliations, ensuring stock agrees to the general ledger.
• Maintain accurate bills of materials as products, packaging and suppliers change.
• Review supplier invoices against expected landed costs.
• Produce gross-margin reporting by product and channel, explaining movements and drivers.
• Support month-end close, including balance-sheet reconciliations and FX revaluations.
• Assist with the company’s first-year audit and ERP implementation.
• Provide costing and margin modelling for new products and launches.
• Support forecasting, scenario planning and finance-process automation.
• Deliver analysis directly to founders and senior leadership.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Management accounting

Financial analysis

ERP experience

Tools

Power Query

Macros

Power Automate

AI-enabled reporting

Job description

SF Partners are partnered with a fast-growing consumer brand looking to hire a Management Accountant to strengthen its finance function and support continued growth.

Reporting to the Head of Finance and Financial Controller, this highly visible role will partner closely with the Operations and Supply Chain teams. The successful candidate will take ownership of inventory, cost and gross-margin reporting while helping to build the processes, controls and management information required by a scaling business.

Location: Central London (5 days in the office)

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Key responsibilities include:

• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain teams, providing commercially focused financial insight.
• Develop COGS and cost-variance reporting across products and sales channels.
• Design and maintain landed-cost and standard-cost methodologies, including freight and duty.
• Own monthly inventory reconciliations, ensuring physical and system stock agrees to the general ledger.
• Maintain accurate bills of materials as products, packaging and suppliers change.
• Review supplier invoices against expected landed costs.
• Produce gross-margin reporting by product and channel, clearly explaining movements and key drivers.
• Support month-end close, including balance-sheet reconciliations, FX revaluations and intercompany accounting.
• Assist with the company’s first-year audit and ERP implementation.
• Provide costing and margin modelling for new products, formats and international launches.
• Support forecasting, scenario planning and finance-process automation.
• Deliver analysis directly to the founders and senior leadership team.

The successful candidate will have:

• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and management-accounting processes.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large datasets.
• Experience using tools such as Power Query, macros, Power Automate or AI-enabled reporting solutions.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to maintain accuracy under pressure.
• Strong organisational, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• A proactive approach and the confidence to operate where processes and controls are still being developed.

Experience within FMCG, consumer products, D2C or another rapidly scaling business would be beneficial. Exposure to ERP implementation, multi-entity accounting or a first-year audit would also be advantageous.

Benefits include:

• Company equity scheme.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Modern Central London office.
• The opportunity to build and improve processes rather than simply inherit them.
• Direct exposure to founders and senior leadership.