Management Accountant (Mostly Remote)

Robertson Bell; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sustainable development organisation is seeking a Management Accountant to support financial decision-making and ensure sustainability in projects. The successful candidate will prepare monthly management accounts, develop financial models, and provide insights to budget holders. A fully qualified accountant is preferred, ideally with charity accounting experience. This permanent hybrid role includes occasional travel to central London.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in preparing monthly management accounts.
• Experience in charity accounting is preferred.
• Skilled in process improvements in financial practices.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts with variance analysis.
• Develop financial models for budgeting and forecasting.
• Lead development and tracking of financial performance metrics.

Skills

Management accounting

Budgeting and forecasting

Cost recovery model

Financial compliance

Financial reporting

Communication skills

Education

Fully qualified accountant

Job description

Are you an experienced finance professional with a passion for making a global impact? Do you enjoy working with diverse teams to deliver strategic financial insights? Are you ready to join an organisation that addresses some of the world’s most urgent environmental and social challenges? If yes, this could be the role for you!

A leading sustainable development organisation is seeking a Management Accountant to play a pivotal role in supporting financial decision-making, ensuring sustainability, and enabling the delivery of projects that link local priorities to global challenges.

The key duties of this Management Accountant will be:

• Preparing monthly management accounts with variance analysis and insightful commentary for senior management.
• Developing and maintaining financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic decision-making.
• Supporting the refinement of the cost recovery model to ensure indirect and overhead costs are fully recovered.
• Partnering with operational budget holders to provide financial insights, manage budgets effectively, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Leading the development and tracking of financial performance metrics (KPIs).
• Ensuring robust financial controls, compliance with policies, and readiness for internal and external audits.
• Maintaining and optimising financial systems for efficient and accurate reporting.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking, impact-focused organisation at a time of strategic change. With a newly launched long-term vision aimed at tackling systemic challenges through innovation, collaboration, and advocacy, this is a chance to use your financial expertise to influence decisions and outcomes with global significance.

The successful candidate will be:

• A fully qualified accountant or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience.
• Experienced in the end-to-end production of monthly management accounts.
• Ideally, experienced in charity accounting.
• Skilled in budget setting, forecasting and process improvements.
• Comfortable communicating complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders.

This is a permanent role offered on a hybrid working basis, with only occasional travel (just a few days per month) required to their office in central London

If you’re ready to bring your financial expertise to an organisation making a difference on a global scale, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help drive positive change.