Management Accountant in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire

What would your next Management Accountant role need to offer to genuinely move your career forward?

More responsibility? Greater exposure to the wider business? The opportunity to learn directly from senior finance leadership?

This is a hands-on Management Accountant position within a successful, growing privately owned business. You'll work closely with operational teams, gain direct exposure to senior leadership and develop a much broader understanding of how finance supports business performance.

Working alongside the CFO, you'll have the opportunity to learn from their experience while taking ownership of key management accounting activities and continuing to develop your technical capability.

You'll have a broad and varied remit, including:

• Preparing monthly management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Producing weekly financial and operational reporting.
• Analysing costs, stock, margins and variances.
• Supporting budgeting and forecasting.
• Improving financial controls, reporting and processes.
• Supporting the continued development of the finance function, strengthening reporting, controls and processes as the business grows.
• Working closely with operational teams to understand performance and identify areas for improvement.

This is a genuinely hands-on position. You'll be close to the detail, preparing and reconciling the numbers, investigating variances and understanding what sits behind them.

As the business continues to grow, you'll have the opportunity to broaden your responsibilities and play an increasingly important role within the finance function.

You'll be newly qualified or part-qualified ACCA or CIMA, with solid, hands-on management accounting experience and the confidence to take ownership of your work.

You'll already be comfortable with management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, trial balances, double-entry and month-end, rather than looking for your first step into management accounting.

Your background will ideally be within an operational or process-driven environment, where you have taken ownership of management accounting and developed a strong understanding of cost drivers, variances and operational performance. You'll be able to interpret the numbers, identify what is driving performance, and communicate that insight effectively across the business.

You'll enjoy getting into the detail, asking the right questions and building effective relationships with colleagues outside of finance.

Most importantly, you'll have the technical foundations and ambition to take on greater responsibility as the role develops.

You'll be joining a finance function that is evolving as the business grows, creating an opportunity to make a visible contribution rather than simply stepping into an established routine.

There are processes to improve and reporting to develop, giving you the scope to make an impact while continuing to build your experience.

If you're looking for a Management Accountant position that combines hands-on accounting, wider business exposure and genuine career development, we'd like to hear from you.

Contact Natalie at Paul Card Recruitment for an initial confidential conversation.

You don't need an up-to-date CV to get in touch.