Management Accountant

Distinct Recruitment; West Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Distinct Recruitment is seeking a qualified Management Accountant for a West Yorkshire role. You will take ownership of a set of monthly management accounts with accompanying commentary and meet deadlines across a hybrid work model (office 3 days a week).

Close collaboration with operational teams to review contract status and ensure revenue recognition and invoicing are timely. The role involves balance sheet reconciliations, year-end audit support, and potential coaching of a junior

Qualifications

• Qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA with management accounts experience.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Able to explain figures to non-finance colleagues.
• Excellent organisation to manage deadlines and assist others.

Responsibilities

• Own monthly management accounts and accompanying commentary.
• Review contracts with operational teams each quarter.
• Track work done but not invoiced and ensure timely billing.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations and maintain tidy records.
• Support year-end audit and controls testing.
• Potential coaching of a junior accountant.
• Identify and implement improvements to month-end processes.

Skills

Excel skills

Communication

Organisational skills

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification

Job description

Management Accountant | West Yorkshire | £50,000 to £55,000 Permanent, full time. Hybrid, 3 days a week in the office.

I'm recruiting a qualified Management Accountant to take ownership of one part of a large business's numbers. If you like having your own set of accounts and being the person the operational teams come to, it's worth a look. The finance work is contract based. A big part of the job is understanding where each piece of work stands and making sure revenue is recognised and invoiced at the right time. The team is established and well run.

The role

• Your own set of monthly management accounts and the commentary that goes with them


• Sitting down with the operational teams each quarter to review where their contracts stand


• Work done but not yet invoiced: tracking it and getting it billed


• Balance sheet reconciliations, kept tidy and supported


• Year end audit support and controls testing


• Analysis when the business asks for it


• Possible coaching of a more junior accountant


• Improving and automating how the month end runs

Qualifications & Requirements

• Qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA Management accounts experience, ideally with contract or project accounting


• Strong Excel


• Comfortable explaining the numbers to people outside finance


• Organised enough to manage your own deadlines and help others with theirs

The package

• £50,000 to £55,000 Permanent Hybrid, 3 days a week in the office

It's a detailed role with a lot of reconciliation and contract work behind the monthly numbers. It suits someone who likes getting under the numbers and can explain them to people outside finance.