Management Accountant - #2167636

Management Accountant

Creative Agency | Soho, London | Hybrid (2 days in the office, 3 days WFH)

We're working with a brilliant global branding consultancy looking for a Management Accountant to join their close-knit finance team.

Initially you'll take ownership of the core accounting processes that sit beneath the CFO, including month end, management accounts, revenue recognition, VAT, payroll, consolidation and balance-sheet control. You will also work closely with our client teams, owning the financial aspects of projects including forecasting, WIP, invoicing, profitability and financial risk.

As the finance team grows, you'll have the opportunity to take on a more commercially focused role, with greater involvement in forecasting, commercial analysis and project performance, providing valuable insights to support decision-making across the business.

Responsibilities

• Preparing management accounts and variance analysis
• Balance-sheet reconciliations
• Accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and depreciation
• VAT return preparation and submission
• Group consolidation
• Supporting year-end statutory accounts and external accountants
• Work with the CFO and client teams on the client / project forecast
• Own WIP and project revenue accounting
• Prepare revenue recognition calculations and journals
• You'll also have the opportunity to go beyond reporting, providing analysis of group variances, revenue and profitability, supporting forecast preparation and cash flow analysis, and delivering key insights to senior leadership

About You

• Practical experience in an accounting, management accounting, project accounting or similar finance role
• A good grounding in P&L and balance-sheet accounting
• Experience of month-end processes and reconciliations
• Proactive and highly organised with a keen eye for detail
• Commercially minded with an interest in how the agency makes money, not just how transactions are accounted for
• Ambitious, curious and confident presenting complex financial information to non-finance staff
• A problem solver keen to investigate issues and, wherever possible, provide solutions

What we offer

• Opportunity for progression! As you become established, this role will become increasingly focused on commercial finance offering a natural development path towards a broader Finance Business Partner role for the right person
• Flexible working hours (9 - 5:30pm with 10-4 flex) and hybrid working (2 days in the office, 3 working from home)
• Up to 28 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays and a festive-season office closure
• Life and health insurance, a workplace pension, discounted gym membership and a cycle-to-work scheme;
• Enhanced family leave policies and regular feedback, development conversations and opportunities to learn from colleagues across the business.

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