Management Accountant

This role is responsible for the production of full management accounts, forecasting and business partnering. The role is expected to provide ownership of outputs, controls and business insight – not simply transactional processing. It will work closely with Finance Operations, the Management Accountant and business stakeholders to ensure accurate billing, cost control, cash flow visibility and timely management information.

What You’ll Do

• Own the business’s month-end close and reporting process, including revenue, direct costs, overheads, accruals, prepayments, deferred income and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare and review the management accounts pack with clear variance analysis, commentary and actions against budget, forecast and prior periods.
• Drive the monthly invoicing cycle, working with the operations/commercial teams to ensure onboarding, memberships, sales invoices, revenue recognition and deferred income are complete and accurate.
• Oversee supplier PO-to-pay compliance, ensuring supplier invoices are coded to the correct entity, location, project, cost centre and purchase order, with appropriate accrual/prepayment treatment.
• Maintain cash flow forecast, including aged debtors/creditors insight and forecast assumptions for the wider group cash flow model.
• Own group overhead reporting, allocation methodology and monthly recharge journals, ensuring costs are consistently coded, evidenced and explained.
• Prepare, post and reconcile inter-company recharges between entities/business units, ensuring balances agree, are supported by an audit trail and are cleared on a timely basis.
• Oversee the Workshop Group subsidiary management accounts pack prepared by the assistant management accountant; review the P&L, balance sheet reconciliations and commentary before submission.
• Business-partner with senior leadership team and operational heads to explain results, investigate variances, identify risks/opportunities and support cost control decisions.
• Own business rates management, lead periodic cost reviews across business rates, utilities, parking, facilities and supplier spend to identify savings, billing errors and process improvements.
• Maintain a robust month-end timetable, working papers and evidence file for management reporting.
• Coach and support junior finance colleagues on coding discipline, reconciliations, cut-off, management accounts preparation and issue escalation.
• Support the Group Finance Manager with audit schedules, year-end close, statutory audit queries and continuous improvement of finance processes and controls.
• May require business travel across Plexal and related group sites.
• Ability to manage and influence through both face-to-face and virtual team environments.

Your Skills

• Competence in clear business communication.
• Strong month-end discipline with the ability to manage multiple reporting deadlines without close supervision.
• Commercially analytical; able to interpret P&L, balance sheet and operational drivers and turn numbers into clear actions.
• Confident stakeholder manager who can challenge coding, spend, forecasts and operational assumptions constructively.
• Advanced Excel skills, including reconciliations, lookups, pivots, modelling and clear review trails.
• High attention to detail with a strong control mindset and willingness to improve processes, not just follow existing ones.
• Able to prepare concise commentary and present financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues.
• Experience using Power BI or Dynamics Business Central.
• Comfortable improving workflows in a finance system environment.

Your Experience

• Finalist or newly qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Evidence of continued professional development in reporting, systems or process improvement.
• Experience producing or owning monthly management accounts, including variance analysis, commentary, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience with revenue recognition, deferred income, supplier cost control and PO-to-pay compliance.
• Experience preparing or reviewing cash flow inputs, aged debtors/creditors and month-end reporting packs.
• Experience with overhead allocations, inter-company recharges, multi-entity reconciliations or group reporting.
• Experience reviewing work prepared by junior colleagues or an assistant management accountant.

Who You Are

• Proactive self-starter who can take ownership, identify issues early and propose solutions rather than waiting for instructions.
• Comfortable operating in a changing, growing business with imperfect information and evolving processes.
• Credible and calm when dealing with operational stakeholders, suppliers and internal finance colleagues.
• Organised, resilient and able to prioritise between month-end, business partnering, controls and ad-hoc requests.
• Team player with high integrity, accountability and a willingness to coach junior colleagues.

Interview Dates

• First-round interviews in person: 24 June 2026
• Second-round interviews in person: 29 June 2026

Why us?

• Plexal’s Values: Mission: We inherit the mission of UK government and deliver it in an agile and creative fashion.
• Collaboration: We believe in the power of working together.
• Equality: We strengthen ourselves as a team by embracing the different.
• Care: People are at the heart of what we do; we care about our customers, members and colleagues.
• As a start-up, we thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment dedicated to empowering innovators.
• We embrace individuals who leverage technology and creativity to tackle our greatest challenges head-on.
• We strongly advocate for maintaining a harmonious work-life balance, our goal is to ensure every member of our team can authentically be themselves and live their best lives.
• We firmly believe that innovation and creativity flourish when we cultivate a diverse workforce, comprising highly skilled individuals with a wide range of perspectives to contribute.

Salary: £48,000 – £52,000 depending on skills and experience

Annual bonus scheme

A generous pension scheme (with a company contribution of up to 10%)

Private healthcare, life assurance and critical illness cover

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Volunteering day

Plexal is an equal opportunities employer and we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We are a Disability Committed employer and are willing to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.