Assistant Management Accountant in Redruth

Seas began in 1981 with a small shop in Penzance, selling workwear to local mariners and practical overalls to artists. Today, we’ve grown into a thriving omnichannel retailer with over 80 UK and Ireland stores, 400+ wholesale stockists, and a growing international and online footprint. As a B Corp and winner of both Drapers “Best Place to Work” and CIPD’s “Best Recognition Programme”, we care deeply about our people, our communities and our long‑term impact. Our Head Office teams provide the foundations that empower our people to drive sustainable growth across the UK and international markets.

As an Assistant Management Accountant, you’ll assist in preparing accurate and timely management accounts and partner with budget owners to forecast their overhead costs. You’ll also work closely with the Management Accountant and senior finance leaders to support the financial close process and provide robust financial analysis.

Your responsibilities:

• Conducting analysis and creating tools to improve business partnering capability, financial results generation and seamless forecasting.
• Supporting the Management Accountant to deliver the data strategy for the Financial Accounting team.
• Processing key accruals, prepayments and other accounting adjustments to ensure the financial integrity of the monthly result.
• Ensuring key controls have been followed in the month end process.
• Reporting monthly primary statement results for discussion with the Financial Controller/Director of Finance.
• Producing key variance analysis (actual vs budget) for key areas of cost.
• Producing other key MI reports to support the month end close and reporting (e.g., retail reports, creditor or stock analysis, wage reporting etc.)
• Producing key and providing high level commentary on key movements.
• Producing ad‑hoc analysis required by the Management Accountant, Financial Controller or Director of Finance to support the financial result.
• Building and maintaining partnerships and strong relationships with senior managers and their teams.
• Communicating finance data to non‑finance professionals to enable the internal customer to understand and assess financial performance and make future decisions.
• Playing a key role in finance change projects, ensuring that projects and initiatives are delivered on time and deliver the required result for the business.

Your qualifications:

• AAT qualified or qualified by experience.
• ACCA/CIMA studier would be desirable.
• Experience within a finance function, preferably within management accounting.
• Ability to interrogate numbers in order to drive insight from data and inform business decisions.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills and some knowledge on how to create meaningful reports from your analysis.
• Experience of financial systems.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial information in clear, non‑technical language.
• Confident engaging with stakeholders at different levels across the organisation.
• Strong attention to detail and an organised approach to work.
• Collaborative approach with colleagues across finance and the wider business.
• Proactive and keen to learn, with an interest in developing a career in finance business partnering.
• Commercial understanding of the key sales and profit drivers would be desirable.
• Proven financial analysis skills with knowledge of planning and budgeting cycles would be desirable.
• Experience of Power BI would be desirable.

Benefits:

• Salary: £,000 – £32,000 depending on experience (Band 2)
• 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• Attractive 50% employee discount
• Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
• Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
• Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
• Life assurance programme
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Flexible working opportunities with our hybrid working approach
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Do Good Things with our two days per year paid volunteering opportunities
• Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion & Belonging Network
• 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub

At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they’re what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles. We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives – diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We’re happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at careers@seasaltcornwall.co.uk.

Close date: 11th February 2026