Management Accountant

The Niche Partnership; Liss; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid after probation

Flexible culture

On-site parking

25 days holiday

Discretionary bonus

Work-life balance

Job summary

The Niche Partnership is seeking a proactive finance professional to shape the finance function within a growing SME. Working from a converted historic watermill, you will collaborate with senior leaders on analysis, reporting, and business partnering to drive real impact.

Develop and modernise processes, build robust Excel models, and support monthly reporting to enhance visibility of performance across the business. Hybrid work after probation, with a supportive, curious team atmosphere.

Qualifications

• Advanced Excel skills required for complex reporting and data manipulation.
• Experience in a similar finance role (Assistant Accountant or Assistant Management Accountant).
• Understanding of month-end processes and reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with management reporting and commercial analysis.
• Performing reconciliations and financial investigations.
• Analysing revenue, margins, profitability and product performance.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Analytical mindset

Independent worker

Curious

SME environment

System improvement

Learning & growth

Education

AAT

ACCA/CIMA (part-qualified)

Tools

Excel

Job description

Looking for a role where your ideas actually change things? This is your chance to help shape the finance function in a growing organisation, with a broad remit covering analysis, reporting, systems and business partnering. You’ll be based in a converted historic watermill, working closely with senior leaders and seeing the impact of your work every day. If you want to build, improve and modernise processes – not just crunch numbers – this is the place to do it. Expect trust, flexibility and genuine ownership, plus a supportive team that values curiosity and hands-on problem solving.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Assisting with management reporting and commercial analysis
• Performing reconciliations and financial investigations
• Analysing revenue, margins, profitability and product performance
• Supporting pricing analysis and contract costing
• Creating and improving Excel-based reporting models
• Manipulating and combining data from multiple business systems
• Supporting development of monthly reporting processes
• Building more robust management accounts procedures
• Assisting with finance projects and process improvement initiatives
• Working with stakeholders to improve business performance visibilitySupporting data cleansing and reporting standardisation projects

What you will need:

• Advanced Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables, data manipulation, linking data sets, complex reporting)
• Previous experience in a similar finance role (Assistant Accountant, Assistant Management Accountant or equivalent)
• Understanding of month-end processes
• Analytical mindset and ability to work independently
• Humble, approachable and naturally curious personality
• Comfortable working in an SME environment
• Eager to learn and improve systems and processes
• Preferred but not essential: AAT, part-qualified ACCA/CIMA, SME experience, reporting experience, data analysis skills

What you will get:

• Hybrid working after probation (minimum 3 days office, up to 2 days WFH)
• Flexible working culture
• Supportive SME environment
• On-site parking
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus possible
• Relaxed culture and strong work-life balance