Job Description
Management Accountant
Salary: 50,000- 58,000
Location: Manchester (hybrid)
Duration: Permanent
Sellick Partnership has been engaged exclusively to recruit a Management Accountant for a successful, profitable and award winning SME service business in Manchester.
Their success is built on combining deep technical expertise with real commercial understanding and helping their clients achieve meaningful business outcomes. As they continue to grow, we're excited to introduce an opportunity for a talented Management Accountant to join a high performing Finance team.
As Management Accountant, you will play a key role in delivering accurate, timely financial reporting and supporting strategic decision making across the business. This is a hands-on position offering real ownership, visibility, and the opportunity to shape processes within a growing organisation.
You will be working in a collaborative and supportive environment; gain exposure to senior stakeholders and strategic planning and be able to influence and improve finance processes in a growing business.
If you're a proactive, commercially minded accountant looking for your next step in a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Full ownership of monthly management accounts, including variance analysis and insightful commentary
- Preparation of month-end
- Supporting Finance Group reporting packs (Flash reporting, full P&L, cashflow, balance sheet)
- Supporting quarterly forecasting, annual budgets, and business planning
- Assisting with preparation of monthly business packs
- Providing external audit support and responding to audit queries
- Supporting strategy and annual reporting
- Developing standard procedures and driving continuous process improvements
- Assisting with ad hoc project work and financial analysis and reporting requests
The successful individual will be a confident, detail-oriented finance professional who enjoys taking ownership and driving improvements.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Fully qualified accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA)
- Strong management accounting experience
- Advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, SUMIFS, XLOOKUP minimum)
- Strong analytical and numerical ability
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
Desirable
- Experience within a professional services environment
- Previous experience in a finance function within professional services
- Power BI
Key Competencies
We're looking for someone who:
- Acts decisively with initiative, drive and adaptability
- Communicates clearly and builds strong working relationships at all levels
- Thinks independently and analytically
- Identifies and implements process improvements
- Manages workload effectively and prioritises proactively
- Demonstrates sound judgement and problem-solving ability
- Thrives in a collaborative team environment
- Maintains resilience under pressure
- Is motivated, results-driven and committed to high-quality work
- Embraces and lives our company values
We are only able to consider applications from those who are eligible to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship.
Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.
