Management Accountant

Sewell Wallis

  • Harrogate, North Yorkshire
  • £50,000-60,000 per year
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 27 days ago
Sewell Wallis is currently working with a fast-growing service sector client based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, as they look to recruit into their management accounting team on a fixed-term contract basis. The primary aim of this Management Accountant role is to become a subject matter expert in the Company's opex costs, providing in-depth analysis every month of costs to support the Divisional Teams.Working as part of a close-knit team, the successful Management Accountant candidate will get the opportunity to work on a flexible basis with two days in the office and three days from home.What will you be doing?
  • Ensuring that opex costs are correctly coded to divisions and accurately stated in the monthly management accounts
  • Presentation of monthly opex reconciliations to both divisional heads and the Finance Director
  • Maintaining accurate and up-to-date balance sheet reconciliations
  • Audit responsibility for opex queries
  • Ad hoc projects and financial analysis
  • Develop positive working relationships with other key areas of the business, including Commercial Finance and Accounts Payable
What are we looking for?
  • ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified with 5 years post qualification experience, ideally in management accounts
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external contacts at all levels
  • Commercial awareness and ability to see the bigger picture
  • Ability to work to deadlines, effectively communicating progress
  • Ability to work on own initiative and proactively solve any issues identified
  • Excellent IT skills (particularly Excel)
  • Analytical skills and comfortable manipulating large data sets
  • Close attention to detail, ensuring consistency of financial information across reporting areas
What's on offer?
  • Salary of £50,000 - £60,000
  • Hybrid working 2 days
  • Life assurance.
  • Private medical insurance.
Apply below or contact Kayley for more information.To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.Job ref: KH/6122Post Date: 06.08.25Meet Our RecruiterDirector | SheffieldMore jobs from this recruiterHarrogate, North YorkshireNegotiableSewell Wallis is currently working with a fast growing service sector client based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, as they look to recruit into their management accounting team on a fixed term contract basis. The primary aim of this Management Accountant role is to become a subject matter expert in the Company's opex costs, providing in-depth analysis every month of costs to support the Divisional Teams.Leeds, West Yorkshire£50000 - £60000 per annumSewell Wallis is currently working with a global manufacturing group based in Leeds as they look to appoint a Finance Manager due to internal promotion. With the support of a team of five, the successful candidate will take full responsibility for producing monthly management accounts for the UK business.Sheffield, South Yorkshire£85000 - £95000 per annumSewell Wallis is currently working on behalf of our client, a well-known organisation based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, as they look to appoint a Head of Finance. Taking over from an interim change Consultant, the successful candidate will lead a large finance function and will be ultimately responsible for producing timely, accurate management accounts, as well as statutory audited accounts. They will also be the key contact point for internal and external audits.Sewell Wallis are a leading, Yorkshire based Finance, Accounting and HR recruitment agency with offices in Sheffield and Leeds. We haven’t reinvented recruitment, we just do it better.

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