Management Accountant

Work.Life; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Work.Life is seeking a finance professional to lead month-end close and management accounts within a lean UK finance team in London. You’ll partner with operations and leadership to turn numbers into decisions on pricing, occupancy, costs and new sites, while delivering board reporting.

The role requires CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification or finalist and 2–4 years in multi-site management accounting, with advanced Excel and strong communication. Hybrid work and growth opportunities offered.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years' experience in management accounting in a multi-site business.
• CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified or finalist.
• Strong month-end experience with balance sheet reconciliations.
• Advanced Excel with model-building, lookups and pivots.
• Clear communicator able to explain numbers to non-finance colleagues.
• Organised and deadline-driven.
• Experience in flexible workspace/real estate or multi-site, recurring-revenue businesses.
• Knowledge of lease accounting (FRS 102 / IFRS 16).
• Experience with NetSuite.
• Familiar with AI tools to speed up analysis and reporting.
• Experience in scale-up or PE/investor-backed environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close to a tight timetable with accruals and reconciliations.
• Own the monthly management accounts with commentary against budget/forecast and prior year.
• Produce site-by-site P&Ls and contribution analysis across the portfolio.
• Maintain the fixed asset register, including capex depreciation.
• Account for leases and landlord arrangements (FRS 102/IFRS 16).
• Contribute to KPI pack and dashboards for self-serve metrics.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and planning processes.
• Assist with annual budget and board/investor reporting packs.
• Support rolling cash flow forecasts and capital project appraisals.

Skills

Month-end accounting

Advanced Excel

Communication

Organisation

Financial analysis

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified or finalist

Tools

NetSuite

AI tools (Claude/ChatGPT)

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
• Access our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging philosophy & ways of working.
• Access our Employer Value Proposition
• Visit our public People Hub

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, a competitive salary, a monthly wellness package, a team joy budget, quarterly socials, and more, so you can work happier.

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