Job Description
Management Accountant 6-12month fixed contract
A progressive, SME business is seeking an experienced Management Accountant to support their finance function through a key period. This role plays a central part in strengthening financial reporting, insight, and business partnering, while helping the team maximise the value of Business Central (Dynamics 365) and Power BI.
This is a hands-on management accounting role with broad exposure across the business. You'll take ownership of day-to-day finance activity, deliver high-quality management information, and work closely with operational teams to ensure financial performance is well understood and accurately reflected.
The role details:
- Take ownership of the day-to-day management accounting during a key post-migration period
- Produce timely and accurate management accounts, including variance analysis and commentary
- Support monthly reporting cycles and provide meaningful insight into business performance
- Partner with non-finance stakeholders to explain results, trends, and drivers
- Work closely with operational teams to understand processes and ensure robust financial reporting
- Support reporting and analysis through Power BI and contribute to ongoing process improvements
- Help optimise Business Central within the finance function
Experience required:
- Strong management accounting experience ideally within an SME environment
- A commercial mindset with the ability to interpret and explain financial performance
- Experience using Business Central / Dynamics 365
- Confident communicator, comfortable partnering with stakeholders across the business
- Ability to translate operational activity into accurate and meaningful financial information
- Experience in manufacturing is highly desirable
- Comfortable operating in a busy, evolving environment
- Be available to start a role within 1-2wks maximum.
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