Management Accountant - Software & Project Finance

South Staffordshire Plc; Walsall; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly leave

Pension scheme

Health & wellbeing

Cycle to work

Professional development

Inclusion networks

Performance rewards

Job summary

South Staffordshire Plc is seeking a Management Accountant to join our finance team in a hybrid role based in Walsall, West Midlands. The position offers £50,000 per annum, full-time hours and 37.5 per week, with a clear focus on monthly reporting, project accounting and driving financial insights for software operations.

You will lead balance sheet reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting and cash flow planning, collaborating with project managers and non-finance stakeholders to improve

Qualifications

• Qualified, part-qualified or actively studying towards ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Experience preparing monthly management accounts.
• Strong knowledge of accruals, prepayments, depreciation and amortisation.
• Experience with project accounting, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills: Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, logical formulas.
• Experience using Xero, Oracle or similar ERP systems.
• Knowledge of software revenue recognition and project profitability reporting.
• Ability to communicate financial information to non-finance audiences.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts and analysis.
• Post journals, accruals, prepayments, depreciation, and amortisation.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts and resolve discrepancies.
• Perform revenue, cost, margin and variance analysis.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and cash flow planning.
• Oversee project reporting and capitalisation where appropriate.
• Monitor work in progress and unbilled revenue.
• Drive improvements to financial processes and reporting.

Skills

ACCA/CIMA

Monthly management accounts

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Education

ACCA/CIMA qualification

Tools

Xero

Oracle

ERP software

Power Query

Power Pivot

Job description

South Staffordshire Plc is seeking a Management Accountant to join our finance team in a hybrid role based in Walsall, West Midlands. The position offers £50,000 per annum, full-time hours and 37.5 per week, with a clear focus on monthly reporting, project accounting and driving financial insights for software operations.

You will lead balance sheet reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting and cash flow planning, collaborating with project managers and non-finance stakeholders to improve