Assistant Management Accountant

Key Responsibilities

• Support the month-end close process, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Assist with monthly revenue and cost accounting, investigating variances against budgets and forecasts.
• Support revenue recognition and invoicing processes across complex technology and services contracts.
• Work closely with Project Managers to ensure accurate financial information and project-related reporting.
• Take ownership of monthly sales commission calculations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with agreed commission structures.
• Act as the key point of contact for commission-related queries, investigating discrepancies and confidently challenging stakeholders where necessary.
• Prepare journals, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations and cost allocations.
• Support monthly forecasting activities and the preparation of financial information.
• Analyse financial data from multiple sources, identifying discrepancies and supporting continuous improvements to financial processes.
• Maintain strong financial controls and ensure accuracy across financial reporting activities.

Skills & Experience Required

• Previous experience in an Assistant Management Accountant, Management Accounting Assistant or similar hands-on finance role.
• Strong understanding of month-end accounting processes, including journals, accruals, reconciliations and variance analysis.
• Experience supporting revenue recognition, cost accounting and financial reporting.
• Experience calculating sales commissions or managing complex financial calculations would be highly advantageous.
• Advanced Excel skills, with the ability to manipulate and analyse large datasets, including pivot tables, lookups and complex formulas.
• Excellent attention to detail, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Confident communicator, comfortable working with stakeholders across Finance, Sales and operational teams.
• Able to work independently, manage competing priorities and meet tight reporting deadlines.
• Experience within professional services, IT consultancy, technology outsourcing or managed services environments would be particularly advantageous, especially where revenue is generated through complex customer contracts.
• Candidates may be part-qualified ACCA/CIMA or qualified by experience. Above all, we are looking for someone with strong practical accounting experience who is comfortable taking a hands-on approach to the role.