Management Accountant - 12M FTC | Hybrid & Driving Essential

SF Partners; Long Bennington; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Driving essential due to location

Job summary

SF Partners are recruiting a Management Accountant on a 12-14 month fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave. Based in Newark/South Nottinghamshire, the role is hybrid with three days in the office.

You will own the monthly management accounts process across a multi-company group, ensuring timely reporting. You'll analyse performance, investigate variances and present findings to Regional Managers, helping non-finance stakeholders understand the numbers and inform decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience independently managing full month-end process.
• Strong knowledge of journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Excellent Excel skills, including XLOOKUP and pivot tables.
• Ability to explain financial results to non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience presenting management accounts and explaining financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and post month-end journals including payroll, accruals, prepayments, depreciation and other adjustments.
• Manage the month-end process and ensure journals and schedules are completed within five working days.
• Take ownership of monthly balance sheet reconciliations across allocated group companies.
• Review management accounts, investigate variances and identify unusual movements or trends.
• Analyse service and property-level performance and identify key results needing attention.
• Prepare budget variance commentary and present monthly financial findings to Regional Managers.
• Explain financial performance clearly to non-finance stakeholders and respond to queries.
• Support weekly cash flow forecasting and wider finance activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and streamline the month-end cycle.

Skills

Month-end

Financial analysis

Excel

Stakeholder comms

Sage 200

AAT helpful

Education

AAT qualification

Tools

Sage 200

Job description

SF Partners are recruiting a Management Accountant on a 12-14 month fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave. Based in Newark/South Nottinghamshire, the role is hybrid with three days in the office.

You will own the monthly management accounts process across a multi-company group, ensuring timely reporting. You'll analyse performance, investigate variances and present findings to Regional Managers, helping non-finance stakeholders understand the numbers and inform decisions.