Management Accountant

This role offers an opportunity for a proactive Management Accountant to join a rapidly expanding company in it's field. Responsibilities include managing accounting processes, ensuring compliance, producing financial reports, and driving process improvements. Ideal candidates will be part-qualified ACCA/CIMA (or qualified by experience), possess strong analytical and Excel skills, and have a growth mindset with a commitment to learning in a dynamic environment.

Duties Include:

• Manage technical accounting processes including month-end close, reconciliations, and trial balance reviews.
• Lead year-end activities by preparing schedules/journals and delivering trial balances to external accountants.
• Review statutory accounts, corporation tax computations, R&D claims, and directors’ personal tax returns prepared by external accountants.
• Ensure compliance with filing obligations (e.g., HMRC and Companies House) for multiple entities within the organisation.
• Prepare, review, and submit quarterly VAT returns in a timely manner.
• Produce weekly and monthly performance reports at departmental and company levels.
• Conduct detailed variance analysis and investigations across various reporting areas.
• Perform ad-hoc commercial, operational, and financial analyses as needed.
• Build and maintain reporting tools for metrics such as sales performance, client profitability, commission tracking, and churn monitoring.
• Monitor progress on strategic initiatives (e.g., sales targets or publisher rebates) through key metric reporting.
• Maintain oversight of publisher agreements to ensure revenue accuracy and compliance with agreed terms.
• Support quarterly business reviews with publishers by preparing relevant data and reports.
• Analyse debtor/creditor ageing trends to identify risks or opportunities for improvement.
• Continuously enhance finance processes by designing automations or AI-enabled workflows to reduce manual effort.
• Drive improvements in data quality and reporting accuracy across finance operations.
• Track metrics such as debtor days, reconciliation timeliness, and reporting precision; produce dashboards highlighting risks or priorities for follow-up actions.

The Successful Candidate is:

• Part-qualified ACCA/CIMA (or qualified by experience), with ambition to progress further professionally.
• Advanced Excel skills are essential (experience handling large datasets; familiarity with Power Query or Power BI is advantageous).
• Proactive attitude with high energy levels; eager to learn new skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong work ethic with ownership of tasks; ability to meet deadlines effectively under pressure.
• Exceptional numerical abilities paired with strong analytical skills; attention to detail is critical.
• Problem-solving mindset; adaptable to change and open to tackling new challenges.
• Highly organised with excellent time management skills; able to prioritise competing demands effectively.
• Self-starter mentality with a commitment to continuous learning and development; embraces a ‘growth mindset.’

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates