Head of Management Accounts
- Location:London
- Job Industry:Accountancy
- Reference:NA242_1793371160
- Job Type:Permanent
- Skills:--
- Salary:£85000 - £95000 per annum
Marc Daniels are working with a growing and highly successful organisation who are looking to recruit an experienced Head of Management Accounts to lead their management accounting function. This is a highly visible leadership role, responsible for delivering accurate and insightful financial reporting, leading a sizeable team, and driving continuous improvement across management accounting processes and controls.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop and mentor the Management Accounts team, fostering a high-performance culture.
- Take ownership of the monthly management accounts process, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of results.
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities in partnership with senior stakeholders.
- Provide insightful analysis and commentary on financial performance, highlighting key variances, risks and opportunities.
- Ensure robust balance sheet controls and reconciliations are maintained across the finance function.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance reporting quality, efficiency and control.
- Lead and optimise the month-end close process, reducing timelines and improving output quality.
- Partner with operational and commercial teams to support strategic decision-making.
- Develop and enhance financial reporting packs for Executive and Board-level stakeholders.
- Support year-end statutory accounts preparation and external audit requirements.
- Ensure adherence to accounting standards, financial controls and governance frameworks.
- Lead finance transformation projects, including process improvements, system enhancements and automation initiatives.
- Establish KPIs and performance measures for the management accounting team.
Essential Experience
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Proven experience leading a Management Accounts function within a medium or large-scale organisation.
- Strong people management experience, with a track record of developing and managing high-performing teams.
- Extensive experience delivering monthly management accounts, budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and understanding of financial controls.
- Demonstrable experience driving process improvements and finance transformation initiatives.
- Experience leading and optimising month-end close activities.
- Advanced stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leadership teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
- Experience working with complex ERP systems and reporting tools.
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