Management Accountant

A leading investment management firm is looking for a Management Accountant on a 12 to 14 month FTC to support their existing in-house Finance team of six people. The role has arisen due to planned maternity absence. The successful candidate will report into and work closely with the Head of Finance.

Key responsibilities:

• Reviewing accounting journals ahead of posting to SAGE Intacct. Ad-hoc posting of journals may be required.
• Supporting the preparation of the monthly management accounts.
• Supporting finance reporting processes for the group and its subsidiaries including the preparation and review of statutory financial statements.
• Preparing bank reconciliations for assigned business units.
• Acting as cover for preparing payment runs in periods of annual leave for staff.
• Preparing monthly expense analysis, including comparisons against budget, forecast and prior periods, and investigating significant or unusual variances.
• Calculating, posting and reconciling monthly expense accruals, ensuring that appropriate supporting documentation is maintained.
• Preparing balance-sheet reconciliations and investigating outstanding or reconciling items.
• Liaising with colleagues across the business and with relevant third-party service providers, including fund administrators and suppliers, to resolve finance-related queries.
• Escalating significant variances, unresolved differences and potential control issues to the Head of Finance in a timely manner.
• Supporting automation and process-improvement initiatives as required.

Skills, competencies and experience required:

• Newly qualified OR latter stage part qualified management accountant with at least two to three years relevant accounting experience.
• Experience within the asset management or wider financial services sector would be advantageous but is not essential.
• Excellent understanding of core accounting principles, including double entry bookkeeping, accrual accounting and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Practical experience preparing and posting journals, accruals and other month end adjustments.
• Experience performing expense analysis and investigating variances against budget, forecast and prior periods.
• Strong reconciliation skills, with the ability to identify, investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• Ability to coordinate recurring payment, reconciliation and reporting processes, ensuring they are completed accurately and on time.
• Experience using Sage Intacct, FloQast or Yooz would be advantageous but is not essential.
• Strong Excel skills and a high level of numerical, analytical and problem-solving ability.
• The ability to explain financial information and expenditure movements clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise competing deadlines during month end and other key reporting cycles.
• A process-improvement mindset, with an interest in improving efficiency, strengthening existing controls and supporting automation.
• Good interpersonal, communication, diplomacy and influencing skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within the Finance team and across different business functions.
• Personal integrity, discretion and sensitivity to the confidential nature of the work undertaken.
• Consistently high attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining accurate supporting documentation and audit trails.

Role will also include a 10-15% completion bonus at the end of the contract. Successful candidates will complete two interviews, including an online and an in-person interview. Interviews taking place in September 2026. Start date will be October or November 2026.