Management Accountant (12m FTC)

InPost UK; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

InPost UK is seeking a Management Accountant to join the finance team in our UK hub. This core accounting role handles journals, accruals, reconciliations and reporting under the direction of a Senior Accountant or Financial Controller, developing technical accounting knowledge.

You will own month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, management reporting, and support AP/AR and audit controls. We look for part-qualified accountants with ERP experience, who are curious, organised and

Qualifications

• Part-qualified accountant actively studying toward qualification.
• Experience with month-end accounting tasks including journals, accruals and reconciliations.
• Good working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping and basic accounting concepts.
• Experience with accounting systems (SAP, Unit4, SAGE, Xero or similar) is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and post month-end journals, including accruals and prepayments.
• Maintain balance sheet reconciliations and investigate reconciling items.
• Provide management reporting schedules and variance commentary.
• Support Accounts Payable & Receivable processes and resolve discrepancies.
• Assist with audit schedules and internal control improvements.

Skills

Part-qualified accountant

Month-end accounting

Double-entry bookkeeping

ERP/accounting systems

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA in progress or recently qualified

Tools

SAP

Unit4

SAGE

Xero

Job description

Want to be part of a UK hub, in a global business that is scaling rapidly, evolving fast and radically changing the decades-old delivery universe? If so, read on, as we’re looking for a Management Accountant to join our finance team!

Our mission? To switch up the status quo and become the UK’s leading out-of-home business. With a fast-growing network of thousands of smart lockers, hundreds of leading retail partners and the launch of our transformative Send service, we’re bringing freedom to anyone with a parcel.

At InPost UK, we’re building an unparalleled group of talent that’s committed to help us power our mission to reshape the way parcels move, and redefine eCommerce logistics. Our team is packed full of top-notch experts in e-commerce, technology, scale-up growth, sustainability, logistics and supply chain. We’re a passionate bunch with high ambition – we collaborate, innovate, support each other, and leave egos at the door.

About The Role

This is a core accounting role sitting within one of our Financial Accounting sub‑teams. The Management Accountant works under the direction of a Senior Accountant or Financial Controller, taking ownership of a defined set of close tasks — including journals, accruals, reconciliations and reporting schedules — while developing the technical accounting knowledge and professional skills needed to progress toward Senior Accountant level.

What You’ll Be Doing

Month‑End Journals & Accruals

• Prepare and post month‑end journals for your assigned area — including accruals, prepayments and any standard reclassifications — ensuring all entries are accurately calculated, supported by clear evidence and posted within the close timetable.
• Review operational data and invoices to identify accruals requirements for your area — flagging any unusual or material items to the Senior Accountant or Financial Controller promptly.
• Maintain clear, well‑organised working papers for all journals posted — ensuring your entries can be easily reviewed, understood and recreated by others.
• Contribute to the efficient running of the month‑end close — completing your assigned tasks on time and communicating proactively if you are at risk of missing a deadline.

Balance Sheet Reconciliations

• Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations for accounts within your assigned scope — ensuring all accounts are reconciled to timetable and all reconciling items are clearly documented and investigated.
• Escalate aged or unresolved reconciling items to the Senior Accountant or Financial Controller, providing a clear summary of the issue and the steps taken to resolve it.
• Maintain a tidy, audit‑ready reconciliation pack for your assigned accounts — updating it on a monthly basis and ensuring supporting documentation is well‑organised and readily accessible.

Management Reporting

• Prepare reporting schedules and analysis for your assigned area — including cost centre summaries, entity‑level reports and any other regular outputs required by the Senior Accountant or Financial Controller.
• Provide straightforward variance commentary for your area — explaining movements in your numbers against budget, forecast and prior period in a clear, concise way.
• Assist the Senior Accountant or Financial Controller in compiling sections of the management accounts pack — ensuring your inputs are accurate, clearly presented and submitted on time.

Accounts Payable & Receivable Support

• Liaise with the Transactional Finance team to ensure that supplier invoices, cash receipts and payment runs relevant to your area are correctly coded, processed and reflected in the ledger.
• Investigate and resolve any discrepancies between ledger entries and supporting documentation — escalating items that require commercial or operational input to resolve.

Audit & Controls Support

• Support the preparation of audit schedules and working papers for your assigned area — ensuring all items are well‑evidenced, clearly presented and available to the Senior Accountant or Financial Controller ahead of audit fieldwork.
• Maintain the integrity of your area of the ledger throughout the year — keeping reconciliations current, ensuring working papers are up to date and flagging any control weaknesses or unusual items to the Senior Accountant promptly.

What We Need From You

We’re looking for people who are ready for a fast paced environment, get their kicks out of problem solving and can balance getting today's stuff done, whilst building for the future. We’re looking for people with drive and natural curiosity – who want to do things differently. And do them brilliantly.

Qualifications & Experience

• Part‑qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) actively studying toward qualification, or recently qualified with limited post‑qualification experience — both profiles are welcome.
• Practical experience of month‑end accounting tasks — including preparing journals, accruals and reconciliations — ideally within a multi‑entity or ERP‑based accounting environment.
• Good working knowledge of double‑entry bookkeeping and basic accounting concepts — comfortable with debits and credits, accruals vs cash, and balance sheet vs P&L accounting.
• Experience with accounting systems (SAP, Unit4, SAGE, Xero or similar) is an advantage.

Skills & Competencies

• Accurate and diligent — takes pride in the quality and completeness of their close outputs and reconciliations, and checks their own work before submitting.
• Well‑organised — manages their assigned close tasks against a timetable, meets deadlines reliably and communicates promptly if anything is at risk.
• Intellectually curious — wants to understand why the numbers look the way they do, asks good questions and takes on feedback constructively.
• A team player — works collaboratively with the Senior Accountant and other team members, shares information openly and contributes positively to the team’s close.

The InPost Process

We pride ourselves on our candidate experience. We want to make this as straightforward as possible, for you and for us! We will try our best to get back to you within a few days to let you know if we’d like to take you to the first stage. This normally involves a 20 minute chat with our Talent Team. If we both feel the connection, you’ll then go through another one or two stages, depending on the level of the role.

At InPost, we love uniqueness. Our strength is our people.

We strive to create an open, equal, inclusive environment in which everyone has the opportunity to flourish and be themselves.