Management Accountant
Posted 1 day ago by Trace | Expert Accountancy & Finance Recruitment
£70,000 Per year
Undetermined
Onsite
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Management Accountant role is a temp-to-perm position within a high-growth real estate company based in London. The successful candidate will be responsible for the monthly management accounts process, ensuring accurate financial reporting and providing analytical insights to support senior leadership. This position requires strong accounting skills and the ability to communicate financial performance effectively to non-finance stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce full monthly management accounts to strict deadlines, including Profit & Loss Analysis, Balance Sheet reconciliations, Cashflow reporting, and Variance analysis and commentary.
- Prepare and post accruals, prepayments, depreciation, and other month-end journals.
- Maintain accurate balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all control accounts are up to date.
- Support budgeting and forecasting cycles, providing analytical insights and challenge.
- Perform monthly review of results with key stakeholders and senior finance.
- Strengthen and streamline month-end and financial reporting processes.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, financial policies, and reporting standards.
- Assist with year-end processes, audit preparation, and auditor queries.
- Act as a finance business partner to operational teams, providing clear financial insight.
- Support decision-making through value-adding analysis and scenario modelling.
- Communicate financial performance to non-finance stakeholders with clarity and impact.
- Support wider finance projects, including systems improvements and process automation.
- Assist with ad-hoc analysis, reporting and commercial initiatives as required.
- Contribute to the development of reporting tools and dashboards.
Key Skills:
- Finalist or fully qualified ACCA / ACA / CIMA essential.
- Strong experience producing end-to-end monthly management accounts.
- Proven track record handling accruals, prepayments, P&L and balance sheet ownership.
- NetSuite Software experience a plus but not essential.
- Solid understanding of financial controls, reconciliations, and accounting standards.
- Experience in a group or multi-entity environment beneficial.
- Proficient in Excel (lookups, pivots, data manipulation).
- Experience with modern accounting/ERP systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
- Able to work independently and manage competing deadlines.
- Strong communicator able to explain financial information clearly.
Salary (Rate): £70,000.00/year
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Management Accountant - Temp to Perm - High Growth Real-Estate Company - 5 Days in Office - London Based - Paying £55,000 - £70,000 (Dependant on experience)
A rapidly growing holding company is seeking an experienced Management Accountant on a temp-to-perm basis. The successful candidate will take full ownership of the monthly management accounts process, ensuring accurate financial reporting, robust controls, and insightful analysis to support senior leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce full monthly management accounts to strict deadlines, including: Profit & Loss Analysis
- Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Cashflow reporting
- Variance analysis and commentary
- Prepare and post accruals, prepayments, depreciation, and other month-end journals.
- Maintain accurate balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all control accounts are up to date.
- Support budgeting and forecasting cycles, providing analytical insights and challenge.
- Perform monthly review of results with key stakeholders and senior finance.
- Strengthen and streamline month-end and financial reporting processes.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, financial policies, and reporting standards.
- Assist with year-end processes, audit preparation, and auditor queries.
- Act as a finance business partner to operational teams, providing clear financial insight.
- Support decision-making through value-adding analysis and scenario modelling.
- Communicate financial performance to non-finance stakeholders with clarity and impact.
- Support wider finance projects, including systems improvements and process automation.
- Assist with ad-hoc analysis, reporting and commercial initiatives as required.
- Contribute to the development of reporting tools and dashboards.
Key Requirements:
- Finalist or fully qualified ACCA / ACA / CIMA essential.
- Strong experience producing end-to-end monthly management accounts.
- Proven track record handling accruals, prepayments, P&L and balance sheet ownership.
- NetSuite Software experience a plus but not essential
- Solid understanding of financial controls, reconciliations, and accounting standards.
- Experience in a group or multi-entity environment beneficial.
- Proficient in Excel (lookups, pivots, data manipulation).
- Experience with modern accounting/ERP systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
- Able to work independently and manage competing deadlines.
- Strong communicator able to explain financial information clearly.
If this sounds like you please do get in touch here or via my email bertie.cox@tracerecruit.com. Trace is an innovative recruitment consultancy. Our person organisation fit profiling tool the Predictive Fit Profiler is helping us fit our candidates with our clients from a personality behaviours motivations and cultural compatibility perspective. IND1