Management Accountant

Marshall Land Systems are currently looking to recruit a Management Accountant to bolster their team.

The Management Accountant is responsible for delivering accurate, timely, and insightful financial information to support decision-making across the business. This includes month-end close, management reporting, project accounting, VAT compliance, cash flow, and balance sheet control.

Working closely with the Financial Controller and operational teams, the role ensures the integrity of financial data, supports forecasting and planning, and drives continuous improvement in reporting and control processes.

Responsibilities in your role will include:

• Deliver month-end close activities, including stock, GRNI, accruals, depreciation, FX revaluations, and period opening/closing in IFS
• Perform and review balance sheet reconciliations to audit standard
• Validate and post journals, ensuring accuracy and compliance with financial controls
• Oversee Purchase and Sales ledger activities and month-end ledger closures
• Prepare monthly management accounts and narratives describing P&L performance, cash movements, order intake, overhead variances, and working capital movements
• Produce and distribute management account packs to Senior Leadership teams
• Undertake variance analysis to identify over/under spends against budget or forecast
• Prepare and monitor weekly cash flow reporting and provide narrative on movements
• Support business planning, including IBP (Integrated Business Planning), quarterly forecasts,
• annual budgets, and five-year plans
• Prepare UK VAT returns and annual insurance returns, ensuring accurate journals and approvals
• Reconcile and report intercompany transactions and support the monthly intercompany
• Process monthly payroll journals and reconcile payroll-related control accounts
• Liaise with internal and external auditors, providing information and supporting audit
• Support implementation of new ERP systems and financial process improvements
• Maintain strong financial controls, monitor unapproved timesheets, credit card discrepancies,
• and system accuracy

Apply if you have most of the following:

• Significant experience in management accounting, ideally within a manufacturing,
• engineering, or project-led environment
• Experience with month-end close, balance sheet reconciliation, and management reporting
• Knowledge of payroll accounting, VAT returns, and financial controls
• Experience with multi-entity and intercompany accounting (desirable)
• Exposure to ERP systems (IFS desirable) and advanced Excel reporting
• Assist Head of Finance and Financial Controller on ad hoc projects
• Part-qualified or qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or equivalent practical experience
• Strong month-end close and balance sheet reconciliation experience
• Payroll accounting and credit card administration knowledge
• VAT return preparation and submission experience
• Strong Excel skills and ERP system experience (IFS desirable)
• High accuracy, organisation, and attention to detail
• Experience in engineering/manufacturing/project-led sectors
• Exposure to multi-entity and intercompany accounting

Additional Local Needs

• Hybrid role 70% onsite in Cambridge
• Successful candidates will need to complete a BPSS check

The benefits we will offer you include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)

• Pension contributions up to 9%

• Healthcare cash plan for you and your children

• Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work

• Life assurance at 4x basic salary

• Enhanced parental leave and pay

• Paid volunteering leave

• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools

Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.