Management Accountant in Harrogate

Full-time Permanent Management

Posted 15 Jul 2026

Description

Management Accountant

Orbital Internet Group

Location: Harrogate or Canterbury

Reports to: Group Financial Controller

Contract: Permanent, full-time

About us

Orbital Internet Group is afast-growing, private equity-backed internet service provider and networkoperator. We build and run our own networks and deliver connectivity tobusinesses, consumers & holiday parks.

Our Parks business is thefastest-growing part of the group and, following the acquisition of LPIS Ltd,we are one of the largest dedicated connectivity providers to the UK holidaypark market serving hundreds of parks and marinas and tens of thousands of parkowners. LPIS operates from Harrogate and sits as part of the group with headoffice in Kent, Canterbury.

We have grown quickly, bothorganically and through acquisition. Joining now means joining a financefunction that is scaling up alongside the business, with real scope to shapehow we do things.

The role

Reporting to the Group FinancialController, the Management Accountant will work as part of a team to delivermonthly management accounts and play a part in the group's consolidatedreporting.

This is a broad, hands-on rolein a multi-entity group. As well as producing the numbers, you will be expectedto explain them, challenge them and improve the processes that generate them.It suits someone part-way through their qualification who wants genuineend-to-end exposure in management accounts, consolidation, VAT, audit, cashflow, controls and systems rather than a narrow seat in a large finance team.

Key responsibilities

Month-end and management reporting

• Produce monthly management accounts for allocated groupentities. Preparing P&L, balance sheet and supporting schedules to anagreed close timetable.
• Prepare month-end processes: journals, accruals,prepayments, deferred and accrued income, fixed assets and depreciation.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations to a highstandard, with clear supporting evidence and prompt resolution of ageing items.
• Prepare variance analysis against budget, forecast andprior year, with commentary that explains the drivers.
• Support production of the group consolidation and themonthly board and investor reporting pack.

Business partnering

• Partner with operational and commercial colleagues tohelp them understand and manage their cost base and performance.
• Support the annual budget and periodic reforecasts.
• Produce ad hoc financial reporting and analysis tosupport commercial decisions.

Transactional, control and compliance

• Prepare and submit VAT returns.
• Complete bank reconciliations and reconcile and settleintercompany balances across the group.
• Ensure stock counts are carried out, reconciled back tothe ledger, and variances investigated and explained.
• Support the purchase ledger and sales ledger functions,acting as an escalation point and reviewer.
• Assist in the production of cash flow forecasting andin lender and covenant reporting.
• Support the annual audit by preparing schedules,evidencing balances and responding to auditor queries.
• Review and continuously improve internal financialcontrols and processes, documenting them as you go.

Systems and integration

• Work in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, ourgroup ERP, and help us get more out of it.
• Play an active part in integrating acquired businessesonto group systems, processes and reporting standards.

Skills and experience

• Part-qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Demonstrable experience preparing management accounts.
• Strong Excel, comfortable with lookups, pivot tablesand large data sets.
• Confident working within an ERP system.
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence towork with stakeholders across the business, including non-finance colleagues.
• Well organised and deadline-driven, comfortable in a fast-moving SME where priorities can shift.
• Accurate, curious and willing to investigate anythingthat does not look right.
• Previous experience in an ISP, telecoms, utility orother infrastructure or asset-heavy business.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Experience of a multi-entity group consolidation,intercompany and multiple ledgers.
• Exposure to a private equity-backed and/or acquisitivebusiness.
• Understanding of revenue recognition in subscriptionand recurring-revenue models.

What you get

• Full study support towards your professionalqualification, including fees, materials and study leave
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasingwith length of service
• Private medical insurance
• Company pension
• Free broadband, discounted mobile SIMs and discountedSky packages
• Genuine progression — we are growing fast and wepromote from within wherever we can