Strategic Management Accountant & Business Partner

Optimum Recruitment Group Limited; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum Recruitment Group Limited is partnering with a Wakefield business to appoint a seasoned Management Accountant. You will support the FC and CFO with budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling, delivering robust management accounts and insightful commercial analysis.

You will help reshape the finance function during a period of growth, working across multi-site operations and driving automation of reporting.

Qualifications

• Strong management accounting experience in a reasonably complex business.
• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, part-qualified or equivalent experience.
• Strong month-end and management accounts experience.
• Practical budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills.
• Ability to analyse financial information and explain the commercial story behind the numbers.
• Confidence working with non-finance stakeholders and challenging assumptions.
• Good understanding of P&L, Balance Sheet and cash-flow relationships.
• Strong systems aptitude and an interest in improving/automating reporting.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise effectively and take ownership of deadlines.
• Multi-site or high-volume commercial experience would be advantageous.
• Sage 200 experience would be useful but isn't essential.

Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts including P&L analysis, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations.
• Produce and develop reporting across sales channels and other areas of the business.
• Analyse actual performance vs budget/forecast and explain variances.
• Provide commercial insight beyond numbers.
• Support annual budgeting and regular reforecasting processes.
• Develop detailed P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts with FC/CFO.
• Support scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis for management.
• Work with operational managers to challenge assumptions.
• Analyse sales, margins, costs and profitability across channels.
• Support month-end close and reporting deadlines.
• Collaborate with Financial Accountant on robust information for reporting.
• Work with Systems/Data team to improve reporting quality and automate processes.
• Assist with year-end and audit requirements and ad-hoc projects.
• Mentor Assistant Accountants and distribute work.
• Ensure focus on high-value analysis and business partnering.

Skills

Management accounting

ACCA/ACIM or CIMA qualification

Month-end

Budgeting & forecasting

Excel & modelling

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

P&L / Balance Sheet / Cash flow

Systems aptitude

Independent working

Multi-site experience

Sage 200

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification

Tools

Sage 200

Job description

Optimum Recruitment Group Limited is partnering with a Wakefield business to appoint a seasoned Management Accountant. You will support the FC and CFO with budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling, delivering robust management accounts and insightful commercial analysis.

You will help reshape the finance function during a period of growth, working across multi-site operations and driving automation of reporting.