Management Accountant in Bradford

A privately owned West Yorkshire business, long established, and currently going through the most significant modernisation in its history. Investment is going into systems, technology, reporting and automation, driven by an owner who wants the business run on better information rather than longer hours. Finance is central to that.

The job is broader than the title. You will own the monthly management accounts, profit and loss by business area, balance sheet control and reconciliations, budgets, reforecasts and rolling cash flow. Above it sits the part worth a conversation:

• You deputise for the Head of Finance and be a key figure for them.
• Real treasury exposure: Bank and trust accounts, invoice discounting, foreign exchange, HP and lease arrangements.
• A dedicated FP&A analyst works alongside you, so you support the modelling rather than being the whole function.
• Oversight across sales ledger, purchase ledger, payroll and cash.
• No direct reports on day one, and a defined route to managing four: Assistant Accountant, Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger and Payroll.
• The managers you partner with run operational parts of the business, not other accountants.

You are not expected to tick every box. Parts of this role will be new to whoever takes it, which is rather the point. The exposure you would pick up across treasury, cash flow, systems, projects and eventually leading a team is the kind that normally takes three separate moves to accumulate.

Two projects will pull you well past the month end. The business is expanding its IT estate, and finance is the strongest technology user in the building. They are also consolidating operations onto one main site, a project expected to run eighteen to twenty-four months with multi-million pound investment behind it.

Being straight with you, processes, systems and reporting are mid-rebuild. If you need a settled environment where the method is already agreed, you will find this frustrating rather than energising. What you get for the difference is exposure, ownership and a route to leading a team.

Job titles matter far less here than demonstrable breadth. Assistant accountants, management accountants, finance officers and qualified-by-experience candidates are all genuinely in scope, as are part-qualified and nearly/newly qualified CIMA/ACCA/AC. What matters is evidence that you have improved something rather than simply operated it.

The facts:

• Role: Management Accountant, newly created
• Location: West Yorkshire, two sites
• Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 depending on experience
• Working pattern: Approximately two days per site, up to one day from home
• Reporting to: Finance Director
• Team: None initially, with a defined route to managing four
• Qualification: CIMA/ACCA/ACA Qualified, part-qualified or qualified by experience all considered
• Core scope: Management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, budgeting and forecasting, 13-week cash flow, VAT review, audit and year-end support, KPI and cost reporting