Management Accountant

Able Bridge Recruitment Ltd; Livingston; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Able Bridge Recruitment Ltd partners with a Scottish business undergoing rapid growth. The role supports the finance director and MD by delivering management accounting information to aid external investment decisions.

You will prepare monthly management accounts, provide detailed reporting packs, perform balance sheet reconciliations, and assist with statutory accounts and audits. The position offers hybrid working with flexible office days.

Qualifications

• We require a fully professional qualified accountant local to the west Lothian region with 5+ years of management accounting experience.
• Role is heavily reporting based with month-end duties (accruals, prepayments).
• UK SME experience preferred; ability to work unrestricted in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts and ensure timely delivery.
• Produce detailed financial reporting packs for senior management and stakeholders.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations and maintain strong financial controls.
• Support the preparation of annual statutory accounts and external audit processes.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards and company policies.
• Deliver high-quality financial and operational analysis to support decision-making.
• Develop and maintain financial models and KPI dashboards.
• Provide profitability analysis across products, customers, projects and business units.
• Support strategic planning through scenario analysis and sensitivity modelling.
• Assist in preparing financial information for investors, lenders and advisers.
• Contribute to due diligence and integration projects as needed.

Skills

Management accounting

Financial analysis

Financial modeling

KPI dashboards

Education

Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/CA)

Tools

Excel

Financial reporting tools

Job description

The Company

Able Bridge Recruitment are thrilled to be working with a Scottish business who are going through a phase of dramatic growth. The business have doubled in size over the past 6 months which is on the back of previous successes.

Benefits include

• The benefits are exactly what you would expect, however with the biggest reward being part of a team that are going through an investment cycle with some serious growth forecast.

This vacancy, the result of an acquisition of a competitor and VC investment will report into the director of finance.

The company offer a hybrid working model, however the finance director is physically onsite 4 days a week and will probably expect the same, if not 5 days a week in the office (with some flexibility).

The Responsibilities

The purpose of this role is to support the finance director and managing director in providing management accounting information that will aid vital external investment decision making.

• Prepare monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.
• Produce detailed financial reporting packs for senior management and stakeholders.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations and maintain strong financial controls.
• Support the preparation of annual statutory accounts and external audit processes.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards and company policies.

Analysis & Commercial Insight

• Deliver high-quality financial and operational analysis to support decision-making.
• Identify key business trends, risks, opportunities and performance drivers.
• Develop and maintain financial models and KPI dashboards.
• Provide profitability analysis across products, customers, projects and business units.
• Support strategic planning through scenario analysis and sensitivity modelling.
• Assist in preparing financial information required for investors, lenders and advisers.
• Support financial due diligence processes associated with venture capital investment.
• Contribute to the preparation of investment presentations and board reporting materials.
• Provide financial analysis to support strategic projects and investment decisions.
• Assist with acquisition evaluations, integration projects or corporate transactions where required.

The Requirements

We are seeking a fully professional qualified accountant who is local to the west Lothian region and who has a minimum of 5 years management accounting experience. The role is very heavily reporting based however there will also be business as usual management accounting tasks to complete such as month end board packs, accruals, prepayments and rudimentary month end duties. We are looking for a candidate who is technically strong and who has worked within an SME completing similar tasks within the UK. Candidates can expect to be busy and work within a business that is like no other in the respect that they have cornered the market in their field and are expanding rapidly.

Our client does not hold a license to offer study support so will only consider applicants who are able to work unrestricted within the UK and who are based in the immediate vicinity.