Management Accountant

Do you possess the drive and ambition to progress your career within a dynamic, award winning, and exciting high growth business? If so, you’ll want to read on…

As a market leader experiencing continued growth and success, they have created an opportunity for a Management Accountant to play a pivotal role within their finance team. Reporting to the Financial Controller, and managing a small team, you will develop and analyse key financial information, produce meaningful management accounts, and aid senior management to make well-informed decisions.

Working closely with the Financial Controller and wider team, you will: Identify improvements in systems and processes; Carry out analysis to advise on improving value and adapting to changing circumstances; Develop and improve month end reporting and analysis; Support non-financial managers in interpreting financial data; Support the Finance Director on project work; Offer your professional judgement on financial matters, advising on ways of improving financial performance.

To achieve the above, you will also conduct all Management Accounts related duties with the support of an assistant. Specifically, this will include: Preparation of the monthly Management Accounts, including profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flows, variance analysis and commentaries; Carry out reporting on business sensitive costs and procedures, e.g. stock; Work with the sales and purchase ledger teams to maintain control of the ledgers; Prepare year-end accounts; Liaise closely with the IT department to ensure accounts systems are being utilised as effectively as possible.

You will possess experience from working within a broad management accounting role, together with commercial acumen to be able to add value. Experience from within a Retail, FMCG or e-commerce business will prove useful, but by no means a pre-requisite.  Perhaps more important is someone who will thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing dynamic and creative environment, together with possessing a natural pro-active and positive attitude. You will be a ‘people-person’, able to engage and motivate a team and build excellent relationships. In addition to qualified CIMA/ACMA/ACCA/ACA’s, Qualified By Experience or exceptional part-qualified candidates will certainly be considered. 

Due to the ongoing growth and profitability of the business, genuine career opportunities exist, hence will best suit ambitious candidates. In addition to receiving a competitive salary, they offer excellent benefits including a generous holiday allocation, salary reviews, pension, healthcare cash plan, flexi-time, and a dynamic and friendly working environment! They also provide free on-site parking at their Huddersfield offices, so within easy commuting distance from the motorway network and most parts of Yorkshire & East Lancashire.

Interviews are being conducted asap, hence you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

Lyons Recruitment are exclusively retained on this recruitment campaign, hence CV’s from other sources will be automatically redirected.