Senior Management Accountant (12-Month FTC) | Growth FP&A

Reed; Whitmore; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Reed is supporting a leading business to hire a Senior Management Accountant for the head office in Bromley, Kent/South East London. This is a 12 month fixed term contract with potential permanency on completion.

Reporting into the Director of Finance, you will own the detailed financial processes and analysis required to run an effective finance function, enabling strategic decisions and strong internal controls across FP&A and project accounting.

Qualifications

• Part qualified or fully qualified CIMA/ACCA.
• Strong understanding of management accounting and financial controls.
• Experience owning month-end accounting processes.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the monthly management accounts process and ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Prepare and review month-end journals, accruals, prepayments, deferred income, accrued income and other accounting adjustments.
• Develop a structured and controlled month-end close process with clear responsibilities, deadlines and supporting documentation.
• Ensure the integrity of the general ledger and investigate unusual or inconsistent balances.
• Produce monthly P&L, balance sheet and supporting management reporting schedules.
• Analyse actual performance against budget, forecast and prior periods and investigate significant variances.
• Provide concise financial analysis and commentary to the Finance Director/CFO.
• Establishing a comprehensive balance sheet reconciliation process.
• Preparing and reviewing monthly reconciliations for all key balance sheet accounts.
• Investigating and resolving historic or unexplained balances.
• Identifying weaknesses in existing processes and implementing practical improvements.
• Supporting annual budgeting and periodic forecasting.
• Maintaining and improving financial models.
• Preparing analysis of revenue, gross profit, operating costs and business performance.
• Assisting with cash flow and working capital modelling.
• Supporting scenario analysis and sensitivity modelling.

Skills

Technical accounting

Management accounting

Financial controls

Month-end close

Balance sheet reconciliations

Project accounting

Revenue analysis

Education

CIMA/ACCA

Job description

Reed is supporting a leading business to hire a Senior Management Accountant for the head office in Bromley, Kent/South East London. This is a 12 month fixed term contract with potential permanency on completion.

Reporting into the Director of Finance, you will own the detailed financial processes and analysis required to run an effective finance function, enabling strategic decisions and strong internal controls across FP&A and project accounting.