Management Accountant - Sheffield - Permanent

Your new company
We're working with a successful organisation seeking a driven and ambitious Management Accountant. This role is ideal for someone who is fully qualified (ACCA / CIMA / ACA) or a finalist actively studying. You'll need strong management accounting experience, confidence to hit the ground running, and the ability to engage and challenge stakeholders at all levels. You'll support senior leadership with high quality financial insight, help drive spend control, and play a key role in financial planning and performance analysis.Your new role
In this role, you'll take ownership of core management accounting activities while providing valuable financial insight to support decision making across the business. You'll work closely with operational teams, challenge spend where needed, and ensure financial information is accurate, timely and meaningful.Your responsibilities will include:

• Preparing monthly management accounts
• Completing detailed variance analysis, including cost reconciliations and investigation of profit variances
• Supporting budgeting and forecasting cycles, including cash flow planning
• Managing revenue recognition, WIP reconciliation and contract accounting
• Ensuring accurate revenue and cost allocation across projects, contracts or work streams
• Producing balance sheet reconciliations and proactively resolving issues
• Challenging managers on spend, overheads and cost control to drive accountability
• Partnering with operational and overhead teams to support informed financial decision making
• Delivering ad hoc financial analysis to support strategy and performance
• Preparing information for Group Finance and liaising with external auditors as required

• A recognised accounting qualification or active progression toward one (ACCA / CIMA / ACA)
• Strong IT capability, with excellent Excel skills
• Solid experience in management accounting, ideally gained within a larger or more complex organisation
• Experience working with different profit centres and providing clear, insightful variance reporting
• Solid understanding of accounting principles; any exposure to IFRS would be highly beneficial.
• Familiarity with contract based or project accounting environments

• Salary up to £50,000, depending on experience
• Study support available for those working toward final qualification
• Hybrid working, with an expectation to be in the office regularly to collaborate with key stakeholders
• Flexible start and finish times to support work-life balance
• Clear progression opportunities, with the potential to develop into a Finance Manager role for the right person