Management Accountant

Cantourage UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

36 days annual leave

Performance-based annual bonus

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Onsite chef 3x/week

Job summary

Cantourage UK is seeking a hands-on finance professional to join our growing team to sharpen planning, forecasting and decision-making. You’ll report to the Fractional CFO and work day-to-day with our Finance Manager and Analyst to turn financial and operational data into management accounts, forecasts and actionable recommendations for leadership.

You’ll own monthly management accounts, build integrated P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts, challenge assumptions, and partner with Supply

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience producing monthly management accounts and variance analysis.
• Experience building integrated P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills; comfortable starting from a blank page.
• Ability to explain numbers in plain language to non-finance colleagues and challenge constructively.
• Natural curiosity; ask why and dig for the answer to improve results.

Responsibilities

• Own timely, accurate monthly management accounts for Cantourage UK and Cantourage Clinic, including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow.
• Explain actual vs budget vs forecast; identify root causes of variances and write driving commentary.
• Support the CFO with annual budgeting and rolling forecasts across P&L, balance sheet and cash.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Growth and Operations to improve inventory turns, cash conversion and profitability.
• Document and standardise management accounting processes; reduce manual reporting and improve data quality.

Skills

Management accounting

Financial modelling

Variance analysis

Excel advanced

Stakeholder communication

Financial storytelling

Tools

BI tools

Job description

Working Pattern: Office based with Thursday WFH

Reports to: Fractional CFO

Works closely with: Finance Manager, Finance Analyst, Supply Chain, Growth, Operations, Clinic and Pharmacy teams

Who are we?

Since medical cannabis was legalised in the UK in 2018, Cantourage UK has been building the infrastructure that makes this industry work - safely, compliantly and at scale.

We operate across two deeply interconnected worlds:

• A regulated tele-health clinic, delivering high-quality patient care
• A licensed pharmaceutical supply operation, powering the wider ecosystem

Together, they form a complex, high-trust system where clinical integrity, operational excellence and smart technology must work in lockstep.

As Cantourage continues to scale, we are strengthening the Finance function to ensure that the business has the financial insight, forecasting capability and commercial support needed for our next stage of growth.

What is the purpose of the role?

This is a brand-new role, created to sharpen how Cantourage plans, forecasts and makes decisions. Reporting to our Fractional CFO and working day-to-day with our Finance Manager and Finance Analyst, you’ll be the person who connects the dots, turning financial and operational information into management accounts, forecasts and recommendations that leadership actually acts on.

This isn’t a close-the-month-and-move-on role. It’s for someone who wants to know why margin moved, where cash is getting stuck and which customers and products are really creating value, and who’s confident enough to challenge assumptions and help teams improve results.

What impact will you have?

Management accounts that tell the story

• Own timely, accurate monthly management accounts for Cantourage UK and Cantourage Clinic including the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
• Explain actual vs budget vs forecast, getting to the root of material variances
• Write commentary that explains the underlying business drivers, not just the numbers
• Work with the Finance Manager to keep financial information accurate, complete and consistent
• Help the CFO shape executive-level reporting and build out KPI reporting across the business

Forecasts the business can rely on

• Support the CFO on the annual budget and maintain integrated rolling forecasts across P&L, balance sheet and cash
• Support the rolling 13-week cash-flow process and build scenario analysis for key decisions
• Challenge forecast assumptions and work with budget owners to improve accuracy and accountability

Cash, working capital & profitability

• Partner with the Finance Analyst on DSO, DPO, inventory ageing, slow-moving stock and expiry exposure
• Turn that analysis into real actions with Supply Chain, Growth and Operations, improving inventory turns and cash conversion
• Build profitability views by customer, product and category, and help set the margin thresholds that guide commercial decisions
• Bring financial insight to pricing, customer negotiations and new commercial opportunities

Business partnering

• Partner with department heads, helping them understand performance and the financial consequences of their decisions
• Support business cases for new initiatives and investments
• Flag material risks and opportunities to the CFO early

Better processes, one source of truth

• Document and standardise management accounting processes alongside the Finance Manager
• Cut manual reporting, spot automation opportunities and improve data quality
• Help build one reliable source of financial and operational management information as we scale

What will you bring to the table?

• Hands-on experience producing monthly management accounts, including variance analysis and commentary
• Experience building and maintaining integrated P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills - you’re comfortable building from a blank page
• The ability to explain numbers in plain language to non-finance colleagues, and to challenge constructively
• Natural curiosity - you instinctively ask “why?” and keep digging until you find the answer

If you have the following, it'll be a huge bonus

• Experience in pharma, healthcare, distribution or another inventory-heavy, regulated business
• Customer and SKU-level profitability analysis
• Multi-entity reporting, or experience within a listed group
• Experience with BI tools or finance automation projects
• Time spent in a scale-up where finance processes were still being built

Who wouldn't thrive in this role?

If you’re looking for a role where you close the month, send the pack and move on, this isn’t it. Equally, if you’d rather stay behind the spreadsheet than sit down with operational and commercial teams, or you need fully mature systems and processes to do your best work, you’ll likely find this role frustrating. We need someone who’s energised by asking “why?”, comfortable challenging senior stakeholders, and happy to help build the foundations as we grow.

What do we offer?

36 day annual leave (includes your birthday + all UK public holidays)

Performance based annual bonus

Share options

Onsite chef 3 times a week, fuelling us with nutritious food