Senior Management Accountant

The Senior Management Accountant will manage one Finance Assistant and will play a key role in producing monthly management accounts statutory Accounts compliance, supporting audit, budgeting, forecasting, and managing payment cycles. This role is well-suited for a detail-oriented professional who excels at taking initiative, addressing challenges, and enhancing workflows within a collaborative team setting.

Client Details

Our client, a well-established organisation based in North Kent are seeking a Management Accountant to join them on a full time and permanent basis. The successful Management Accountant will be formally qualified, with demonstrable experience in management accounting, consolidation and statutory accounting within a compliance focused environment.

This role offers a hybrid working pattern.

Description

Management Accountant duties include;

• Prepare monthly management accounts, ensuring clarity, precision, and timely review for the Finance Manager. This includes supporting the accounts with high-quality, balance sheet reconciliations.
• Provide confident client-facing support, attending regular finance meetings with the client to discuss operational or process matters.
• Manage a broad range of advanced technical accounting activities, including generation and construction accruals, and detailed fixed asset register.
• Maintain financial governance, including oversight of payments and bank instructions, statutory books, loan note registers, sales invoice approvals, and overall integrity of portfolio financial records.
• Review the payments and bank instructions for approval.
• Prepare the corporation tax payments calculation and manage payments.
• Partner with stakeholders, providing high-quality financial information to Finance Managers, resolving queries. promptly, and building trusted relationships both internally and externally.
• Manage the statutory audit process, liaising with auditors and compiling the statutory audit working papers for submission.
• Process and update the annual operating budget and forecasts in the accounting system.

Profile

The successful Management Accountant should have:

• A completed formal qualification is required (ACA, ACCA or CIMA Qualified)
• Management accounting and statutory accounting experience
• Previous people management experience is required to be considered
• Experience in working closely with senior stakeholders
• Experience working within a compliance focused environment
• Clearly communicate technically complex financial issues
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• A highly organised approach with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Will consider a first stepper from practice

Job Offer

• A competitive salary range from £60,000 - £65,000 per annum
• Generous holiday leave + bank holidays
• Employer pension contribution
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Provisions
• Group Life Assurance Scheme
• Volunteering days
• A collaborative and supportive company culture

We encourage all qualified candidates to apply now for immediate consideration.