Management Accountant

Employment type: Permanent
Salary: 60k/year - 65k/year

CHESTER - 4 DAYS OFFICE / 1 DAY FROM HOME - PERMANENT - A NEWLY CREATED ROLE IN A GROWING INTERNATIONAL FINANCE TEAM

Are you a qualified accountant who enjoys owning month-end, keeping the ledgers clean, and bringing order to a multi-entity group? Do you thrive in a growing business where you can build structure rather than inherit it?

We Do Group are hiring a Management Accountant for a growing, international infrastructure business. This is a newly created role, sitting beneath the Group Financial Controller and alongside a new Project Accountant. You'll own the entity-level numbers across the group - accruals, journals and balance sheet reconciliations, delivering clean, reconciled data that feeds group consolidation and reporting.

The group runs a hub-and-spoke model across several international regions, with local teams handling day-to-day transactions. Your job is to make sure it all lands correctly, produce reliable entity-level management accounts, and help build out the accounting function as new regions come on stream. There's also an accountancy apprentice to train and develop below you.

WISH LIST

• A qualified accountant (finalists considered) who can run month-end independently across multiple entities
• Strong balance sheet discipline - reconciliations, accruals, prepayments and journals done properly and on time
• Comfortable bringing structure to a growing, evolving finance function - and mentoring a junior below you

THE ROLE

• Own the month-end close across the group's entities, delivering a clean, reconciled trial balance for each ahead of consolidation
• Review the completeness and accuracy of transactional data posted by local teams, resolving coding gaps at source
• Prepare and post accruals, prepayments and month-end journals across all entities
• Own the balance sheet reconciliation timetable, ensuring every account is reconciled monthly
• Investigate and clear reconciling items promptly, escalating anything unresolved to the Group FC
• Produce reliable entity-level management accounts that underpin the group consolidation
• Process and reconcile intercompany transactions, flagging discrepancies for resolution
• Maintain the fixed asset register, process depreciation journals and perform bank reconciliations
• Apply group accounting policies consistently at transactional level - capitalisation, depreciation, accruals and FX
• Support the Group FC and external auditors with reconciled working papers and query responses
• Help set up accounting processes and controls as new entities join the group
• Support an upcoming group ERP implementation and the migration away from multiple local systems

YOUR PROFILE

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA or CIMA) - finalists close to qualifying considered
• Effective communicator - written and verbal
• Good working knowledge of MS Excel
• Experience across multiple entities, reconciling data from different systems and sources
• Self-sufficient and happy building structure where processes are still developing

SALARY & BENEFITS

• £60,000-£65,000
• Discretionary bonus (group performance scheme in development)
• 4 days in the office / 1 day from home, with some flexibility
• Private healthcare
• 20 days holiday + bank holidays
• Statutory pension scheme
• On-site parking