Your newpany
You will be joining a purpose‑driven organisation that ismitted to making a positive impact and delivering high‑quality services to itsmunity. The culture is weing, supportive and energetic, with a strong emphasis on caring about the work delivered, being passionate about performance, and feeling proud of collective achievements. This is an environment where finance plays a key role in ensuring long‑term sustainability, providing accurate insight, and supporting better decision‑making across the business.
Your new role
As Management Accountant, you will take on a central role in driving financial performance and supporting leaders across the organisation. You will prepare accurate and timely month‑end accounts, including accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and journal reviews, ensuring all financial information reflects the true position of the business. A key part of your role will involve leading expenditure reviews, acting as the finance specialist on energy‑related costs, and rmending improvements to accounting treatment where required. You will build strong business‑partnering relationships with managers, holding regular performance meetings to validate financial data, discuss variances, adjust forecasts and ensure colleagues understand the actions needed to improve results. Alongside this, you will support investment projects through robust modelling and financial analysis, assist with capital planning, and provide post‑implementation reviews to ensure financial objectives are delivered. You will also lead the annual budgeting cycle, collate and validate all budget inputs, maintain the forecasting model, and deliver clear cashflow and variance analysis to senior management. In addition, you will manage and develop a direct report, ensuring they are equipped and supported to perform effectively. Altogether, your work will directly influence business decisions, strengthen financial controls and contribute to the organisation’s long‑term sustainability.
What you'll need to succeed
To thrive in this role, you will bring a strong technical foundation alongside excellentmunication and stakeholder‑management skills. You should hold a degree‑level qualification or be studying towards, or already hold, a recognised professional accounting qualification such as ACCA or CIMA. You will have at least three years of relevant management accounting experience, with a solid understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and performance reporting. You will befortable working in a fast‑moving environment, producing accurate information under pressure and managingpeting priorities effectively. A key requirement is the ability tomunicateplex financial information clearly to non‑finance colleagues, influencing and guiding them to take the right actions for the organisation as a whole. Strong analytical capability, attention to detail and the confidence to challenge assumptions are essential. Experience working in the not‑for‑profit or charity sector, or with charity accounts, would be beneficial but is not mandatory.
What you'll get in return
In return, you will step into a high‑profile, impactful role where your insight will directly shape financial performance and organisational decision‑making. You will work closely with senior leaders and operational teams, gaining valuable exposure and influence across the business. The organisation offers a supportive and collaborative culture that values development, encourages new ideas and invests in its people. You will have the opportunity to lead key financial processes, contribute to investment decisions and play a central part in improving long‑term sustainability while supporting meaningfulmunity oues.