Head of Management Accounts
Location: Birmingham, Hybrid Flexible Working (3 days in the office, 2 from home)
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £80,000 per annum + benefits
Bring Clarity to the Numbers Behind Life Services Group
At Life Services Group, our mission is to help every family in Britain navigate the hardest moments of life with simplicity, dignity, kindness and exceptional care. Our vision is to become the UK's leading end-of-life company, helping one in three people across the UK to plan for and deal with death.
We've recently come together as Life Services Group, bringing trusted names including Dignity Funeral Directors, CMG, Simplicity Cremations, Dignity Legal Services and Farewill under one roof. It's a genuinely exciting moment, and you can feel the momentum across the business. As we grow into this new chapter, a clear and trusted picture of how we're performing matters more than ever, because good decisions start with good numbers.
That's where you come in. We're looking for a Head of Management Accounts to lead our management accounting function and transform how we close, report and explain our performance across the Group.
The Opportunity
This isn't a role for keeping the lights on. You'll own the monthly management accounts for our Funerals and Crematoria businesses and the wider Group, with a clear remit to make them faster, more automated and more insightful.
Working hand in hand with FP&A, you'll bring business management reporting into your team, remove duplication between the two functions and create one version of the truth that leaders across the business trust and act on.
Reporting to the Director of Finance and leading a team of six, you'll be a visible voice in how our new Group understands its performance. It's a chance to put your stamp on a finance function at a defining moment, and to see the difference your work makes to the families we care for.
What You'll Be Doing
As Head of Management Accounts, you will: Lead the monthly consolidated Group and divisional management accounts for Funerals, Crematoria and Head Office, delivered accurately and on time, every month.
Turn the numbers into a story, with clear variance analysis and commentary against budget, forec...
Head of Management Accounts in Sutton Coldfield employer: Dignity Funerals
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