Senior Management Accountant - #2193785

We are pleased to be representing a PE backed professional services and advisory group. The group brings together established regional firms and gives them the technology, scale and specialist expertise of a national business, while keeping their local client relationships and entrepreneurial culture.

The group is delivering an ambitious buy and build strategy, with several acquisitions already completed and more planned over the next year. To support this growth, it is investing heavily in its finance function. It has recently added an FP&A capability, is now building a Shared Services Centre (SSC), and has several other finance hires underway.

The Role

Our client is looking for a hands on Management Accountant / R2R Manager to own the General Ledger and the Record to Report process as newly acquired businesses join the group.

The management accounting infrastructure is still being built, and parts of the business don’t yet have an established month end process. You will bring structure where there is very little, work with imperfect information and put robust, scalable processes in place from the ground up.

This is not a traditional SSC role. The business wants a strong Management Accountant who has thrived in complex, fast paced and sometimes unstructured environments, and who wants to leave a lasting mark on a growing finance function.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the General Ledger and the Record to Report process across the group.
• Develop and deliver accurate monthly management accounts, building the process where none exists today.
• Produce meaningful monthly P&L reporting that gives leadership clear visibility of performance.
• Lead and support balance sheet reviews and reconciliations.
• Establish scalable R2R processes within the evolving Shared Services Centre.
• Support the integration of newly acquired entities into the group finance function.
• Work closely with billing and operational teams to improve the accuracy of billing and Work in Progress (WIP) reporting.
• Identify process improvements and strengthen financial controls across the business.
• Partner with the FP&A team to make sure reporting is accurate, timely and ready to support decisions.

Key challenges you will tackle

• Building management accounting processes from a relatively immature starting point.
• Supporting the ongoing SSC transformation.
• Resolving a significant WIP challenge.
• Creating greater visibility and accuracy around monthly financial performance.

About You

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with solid post qualification management accounting experience.
• Strong technical grounding in month end, General Ledger ownership, balance sheet reconciliations and P&L reporting.
• Experience in complex, fast paced or changing environments such as PE backed, acquisitive, high growth or transformation settings.
• Confident building processes from scratch and bringing structure to imperfect or incomplete data.
• Exposure to acquisition integration, systems implementation or shared services is a plus but not essential.
• Experience with WIP, billing or time based revenue (professional services or practice environments) would be highly valued.
• Hands on and pragmatic, happy to roll up your sleeves while also thinking about scalability.
• A clear communicator who can build credibility with finance leadership and operational teams alike.

Systems and Environment

The group has recently gone live on a new cloud ERP and also runs a dedicated practice management and billing system, so accurate billing and WIP management are critical to the role. Strong ERP capability and the appetite to get the most out of a new system matter more than experience of any specific platform.

Salary

Up to £65,000 per annum

How to Apply

This role is being managed exclusively by Amy Hudson at Trinity House Group. For a confidential conversation, contact [email protected].