Pay: From £35,000.00 per year
Job Description: Management Accountant
Location: Westfield House, Lower Wortley Road, Leeds, LS12 4PX
Salary: £35,000 + CIMA/ ACCA study support
Job Type: Full-time office based. LS12
Company: YDS Group (Smile White & Yorkshire Dental Suite)
About Us
YDS Group is a fast-growing, privately owned organisation operating across two exciting businesses:
* Yorkshire Dental Suite & Dental Practices – expanding rapidly from one site in Leeds to nine practices and continuing to scale in 2026.
* Smile White – a high-growth direct-to-consumer aligner brand, offering customers healthier, straighter smiles.
As the Group continues to grow at pace, we are expanding our finance team to ensure strong financial control, high-quality reporting and forward-looking insight.
We are recruiting a Management Accountant to join our finance team of six and play a key role in month-end reporting, budgeting, forecasting and business performance analysis.
What We Offer
* £35,000 salary
* CIMA/ACCA study support
* Pension scheme
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Retail discount platform
* YDS Group employee discount
* 20 days holiday + bank holidays
* Career development in a fast-growing group
* Supportive, collaborative team environment
1. The Role
As a Management Accountant, you will be responsible for producing management accounts for several group entities and supporting the finance function as it matures into a more strategic, forward-looking team.
Key Responsibilities
* Prepare single entity management accounts for larger companies within the Group
* Deliver month-end reporting to the five-day deadline
* Produce payroll, including starters, leavers, deductions and additions
* Prepare payroll reports and oversee associates pay
* Supervise junior staff involved in payroll preparation
* Provide clear and insightful financial analysis
* Participate in monthly risks and opportunities reviews
* Work with cost centre managers to understand key variances
* Develop and maintain cost centre and headcount reporting
* Build budgets and forecasts for assigned cost centres
* Produce meaningful commentary and next-step recommendations
* Challenge assumptions and help embed strong financial controls
* Improve reporting quality, consistency and impact
* Support transactional processing where required
About You
Essential Experience
* Proven experience producing month-end management accounts
* Strong experience building budgeting and forecasting models (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow)
* Advanced Excel capability
* Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data into meaningful insight
* Experience interpreting large amounts of financial and operational information
* Ability to become a subject matter expert in ERP and accountancy systems
Personal Qualities
* Naturally inquisitive and willing to challenge constructively
* Excellent communication skills
* Able to take full ownership of workload and deliver to deadlines
* Confident explaining financial information to non-finance colleagues
* Proactive, self-motivated and able to work independently
* Studying towards, or wanting to start - CIMA or ACCA (full study support provided)
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person
Benefits:
* Company events
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee discount
* Free parking
* Referral programme