Management Accountant

activpayroll; Scotland; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Aberdeen is seeking a proactive Management Accountant to drive performance and support decision-making across the business. This hybrid role involves financial analysis, budgeting, and engagement with senior managers while ensuring compliance with financial regulations. The ideal candidate is part-qualified or fully qualified and has extensive experience in management accounting and financial analysis.

Qualifications

• Experience in complex financial environments with a multinational, multicurrency business.
• Proven experience in management accounting, financial analysis, or business partnering role.
• Familiar with statutory reporting, tax compliance, and audit processes.

Responsibilities

• Analyse daily financial transactions for accuracy.
• Prepare and present financial reports, including profit and loss statements.
• Support the preparation of annual budgets and update financial forecasts.
• Collaborate with senior managers to provide financial insights.
• Ensure timely submission of statutory financial statements.

Skills

Management accounting

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Stakeholder engagement

Compliance

Operational finance

Education

Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ICAS)

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Management Accountant

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Aberdeen, Scotland

Reporting To: Financial Controller

Description

We're looking for a proactive and commercially minded Management Accountant to join our team and play a key role in driving performance and supporting strategic decision-making across the business.

As a trusted business partner, you'll work closely with operational teams and senior leaders to deliver insightful analysis, shape budgets and forecasts, and ensure financial performance aligns with our goals. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to meaningful change, improve cost efficiency and play a important role in shaping the performance of a global business.

Our Finance team is based across two main sites - Aberdeen and Kuala Lumpur. This role will be based from our Aberdeen office headquarters, on a hybrid working basis. We're happy to discuss how that will look for you as part of the hiring process.

On a typical day, it looks like this...

Financial Analysis & Reporting

• Analyse daily financial transactions to ensure accuracy and alignment with budgets.
• Prepare and present financial reports, including profit and loss statements, cash flow forecasts, and variance analyses.
• Investigate discrepancies between actual and expected performance, recommending corrective actions.

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Support the preparation of annual budgets and update financial forecasts based on current business performance.
• Review departmental cost structures and identify opportunities for cost optimisation.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with senior managers, Finance colleagues, and cross-functional teams (e.g. HR, Operations) to gather data and provide financial insights.
• Liaise with external partners such as auditors, tax consultants, and banks to ensure compliance and support audits.

Compliance & Controls

• Ensure timely submission of statutory financial statements and compliance with local regulations.
• Oversee tax filings, payroll processes, and statutory payments (e.g. EPF, Income Tax, SOCSO, EIS).
• Manage intercompany billing, transfer pricing reviews, and fund transfers for operational continuity.

Operational Finance

• Supervise end-to-end finance activities including AP, AR, GL, bank reconciliations, and fixed asset management.
• Monitor cash flow and manage intercompany collections and payments.
• Maintain and review Finance SOPs and participate in integration and process improvement initiatives.

To be brilliant in this role, you'll...

• Be a part-qualified or fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ICAS)
• Have experience working in complex financial environments with a multinational, multicurrency business
• Have proven experience in a management accounting, financial analysis, or business partnering role.
• Experienced in preparing monthly management accounts, variance analysis, and cash flow forecasts.
• Familiarity with statutory reporting, tax compliance, and audit processes
• Experience working in a cross-functional environment and supporting operational decision-making.
• Be highly focused and accurate with an uncompromising eye for detail
• Have a track record of delivering accurate work to deadlines in a fast-paced organisation, with excellent prioritisation and task management skills.
• Be able to communicate well with internal and external stakeholders, with the ability to influence and guide towards agreed outcomes.
• Have high integrity, a role model for doing the right thing and commitment to high performance.
• Experience of NetSuite would be advantageous but full training will be provided