Management Accountant Jobs

Stafffinders recruits for a wide range of Management Accountancy roles within Paisley, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Management Accountancy jobs involve building relationships with key people across the business and having a thorough understanding of the business's operations. Obtaining historical or recent information, assembling information in the form of graphs, charts and reports to provide to management to assist them with decision-making are all key requirements from Management Accountant roles. A typical Management Accountant job will include, preparing the profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statement, leading a team of staff responsible for the production of management accounts, preparing budgets and forecasts including analysis of trends, variances and key performance indicators, consolidating reports from subsidiary companies for head office, reviewing monthly/quarterly/annual accounts and comparing actual to budgeted results. Providing support to the Finance Manager and assisting with business plans or ad hoc projects, preparing income and expenditure accounts and VAT returns are also typical duties performed within this role.

Management Accountant Job qualifications

be Part-qualified ACCA/CIMA
possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
be enthusiastic and a good team player
have a thorough knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel
be able to establish relationships quickly with key contacts within the business
have sound commercial awareness

Typically Accounts Assistants apply for this type of role. Applicants usually have already worked within a finance department and gained good all round book-keeping skills, and are now seeking the next step up on the career ladder to broaden their experience.