Management Accountant

Ampa - Legal & Professional Services; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampa Group is seeking a qualified Management Accountant to join the Financial Reporting & Accounting (FR&A) team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You’ll support the Group Financial Controller and wider Finance team, delivering robust monthly management accounts, financial reporting and controls in a fast-paced professional services environment.

The role offers hybrid working across our UK hubs, with opportunities to develop across brands and collaborate across multiple IT systems, including

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA.
• Experience in management accounting or financial reporting.
• Experience in legal or professional services is a plus.
• Strong accuracy and Excel proficiency.
• Ability to work across multiple IT systems is essential.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and post month-end journals and provisions with variance analysis.
• Maintain fixed asset registers and depreciation postings.
• Reconcile group lease liabilities and ensure P&L postings per FRS 102.
• Prepare intercompany reconciliations and recharges as needed.
• Maintain General Ledger integrity and cost allocations across brands.

Skills

Attention to detail

Excel

Stakeholder communication

Multi-system work

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Tools

Aderant/TM1

Job description

Are you a qualified accountant looking for your next opportunity within a fast-paced and evolving professional services environment?

Do you have a strong eye for detail, enjoy working with numbers and take pride in delivering accurate, high-quality financial information?

We’re looking for a Management Accountant to join our Financial Reporting & Accounting (FR&A) team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This is a fantastic opportunity to play an important role in supporting the Group Financial Controller and wider Finance team, while gaining valuable experience across management accounting, financial reporting and financial controls.

The role offers a hybrid working environment, combining the flexibility of working from home with regular collaboration with colleagues across the business.

You’ll take ownership of a range of key accounting activities and deliverables, helping to ensure the business has robust, timely and accurate management and financial information.

Why Join Us?

This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative Finance team on a 12-month fixed-term contract, where you’ll have the opportunity to make a genuine contribution while developing your experience across a broad range of accounting and financial reporting activities.

If you’re a qualified accountant who enjoys working in a varied role, has a strong eye for detail and wants to be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.

As Management Accountant, your responsibilities will include:

• Preparing and posting month-end journals and provisions to support the accurate and timely delivery of monthly management accounts, including relevant analysis, schedules, variance analysis and commentary.
• Maintaining fixed asset registers in line with Group accounting policies and procedures, including additions, disposals, project categorisation and depreciation postings.
• Maintaining Group lease liability reconciliations and ensuring accurate P&L postings in line with FRS 102 lease requirements.
• Preparing assigned control account reconciliations, identifying potential issues and escalating these to the Group Financial Controller where appropriate.
• Preparing monthly intercompany reconciliations and ensuring balances agree across all Group entities, including processing intercompany recharges where required.
• Maintaining General Ledger integrity and supporting the accurate allocation of costs across brands.
• Preparing monthly bank loan reconciliations.
• Preparing monthly IT and consultant spend analysis, identifying unusual costs or potential areas of overspend and supporting the Finance team with any related queries.
• Preparing ONS reports and subsidiary VAT returns.
• Preparing capital expenditure reporting as required.
• Reconciling month-end finance reports back to Aderant/TM1 balances, identifying and investigating any variances and working with the Finance Systems team to resolve issues.
• Supporting junior members of the accounting team, including reviewing workings, reconciliations and journals where required.
• Supporting the Group Financial Controller throughout the annual audit process, including preparing audit schedules, supporting documentation and analysis.
• Providing ad hoc financial reporting and accounting support to the Group Financial Controller and Group Finance Director as required.

We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate:

• A professional accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Previous experience in a similar management accounting or financial reporting role.
• Experience within the legal or professional services sector would be advantageous.
• Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
• Good working knowledge of Excel, ideally at an intermediate level or above.
• The ability to work confidently across multiple IT systems and platforms.
• A genuine desire to develop professionally and contribute to the continued growth of the Finance function.

To be successful in this role, you’ll be:

• A confident communicator who can build strong relationships and credibility with stakeholders at all levels.
• Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise effectively and consistently meet deadlines.
• Proactive in identifying and resolving queries and issues.
• Adaptable and comfortable working in a changing and fast-paced environment.
• Positive, enthusiastic and able to demonstrate a strong can-do attitude.
• Detail-oriented, with a strong focus on accuracy and quality.
• Comfortable working independently while also contributing effectively as part of a wider team.
• A quick learner who is willing to embrace new systems, processes and ways of working.
• Keen to develop your skills and take on new responsibilities as the role evolves.

Benefits, Agile Working and Additional information

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.

We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

We have the following hubs across the UK: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stratford upon Avon and in the South East; Brighton, Chichester, Crawley, East Grinstead, Eastbourne, Lewes, Seaford, Storrington, Southampton & Tunbridge Wells.

Additional information

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Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Equal opportunities

Ampa Group is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.

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