Job Description

Senior Management Accountant | £65,000 to £75,000 + bonus | North London (office-based, four days a week) | Permanent

Why join our client

This Senior Management Accountant role sits right where the decisions get made. Our client is a well-established, privately owned business that’s been delivering long-term, capital-intensive projects for decades. Finance is at the centre of how it runs, preparing the numbers behind the delivery programme, new investment opportunities and the scenarios the directors weigh up. It suits someone who’d rather be out talking to the business than tucked behind a spreadsheet all day.

How you’ll make an impact

• Pull together monthly updates from the operational, planning and sales teams into the production and sales reporting.
• Prepare the monthly programme review with the MD and directors, and record the actions.
• Carry programme changes through into month-end close and the forecast.
• Complete the quarterly true-up of actuals into the consolidated model, so the forecast, ledgers, balance sheet and cash flow agree.
• Prepare, and in time review, appraisals for new investment opportunities, supporting them through to the board decision.
• Build scenarios for the directors and compare them, often several at once, with the current plan.
• Consolidate scenarios into the group’s integrated financial model, including covenant reporting, and help improve it.
• Build strong business partnering relationships across operational, commercial and specialist teams.
• Automate recurring work, including quarterly reporting, and help shape how the team uses technology and AI.

Why you’re a great fit

Essential

• You’ll be a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) with experience in management accounts, FP&A, financial analysis, project accounting or business partnering. Job titles vary a lot, so it’s the experience behind yours that counts.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills, with a sharp eye for accuracy.
• Confidence explaining numbers to senior people outside finance, and testing assumptions when they need it.
• Happy to work from the North London office four days a week.

Desirable

• Experience in property development, construction, infrastructure or other long-term, capital-intensive projects.
• Land or project appraisals and scenario modelling.
• Time in a commercial organisation, whether you started in industry or moved across from practice.

You’ll do well here if you’re curious, happy to ask questions (including the ones that feel basic) and quick to put your hand up for new initiatives. If the sector’s new to you, learning fast matters more than background. It probably won’t suit someone who wants to stay heads-down on actuals, as the financial control and ledgers team look after those.

What you’ll get in return

The work is forward-looking and visible at board level, with plenty of room to improve how things are done. As Senior Management Accountant, you’ll enjoy:

• £65,000 to £75,000, depending on experience
• Company bonus scheme
• Private healthcare
• Pension
• Parking on site

We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the role requirements. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we’ll provide any reasonable adjustments you may need throughout the recruitment process.

If this advert sounds like you, please apply now or contact jackie@core3.co.uk / 0117 213 0300. Visit www.core3.co.uk to view all our finance opportunities.