Management Accountant
Team: Finance
Location: Cambridge
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Opportunity
Join a dynamic, fast‐paced finance team within a fast‐growing business. This role offers significant scope for progression and development, providing exposure to a broad range of finance activities across the company. You will be instrumental in transforming the finance function through automation, process improvement, and smarter ways of working, driving that transformation and helping move the finance team to the next level.
Main Responsibilities
* Prepare the first draft of consolidated monthly management accounts, contributing directly to key business reporting and decision‐making
* Manage and reconcile balance sheet accounts each month, ensuring accuracy and providing clear financial visibility across the business
* Lead key month‐end activities, including preparing and posting journals for payroll, accruals, and prepayments to support accurate and timely reporting
* Partner closely with the Operations team to ensure inventory is accurately captured and reflected within the accounting system
* Collaborate with Operations to raise ad‐hoc sales invoices and support the smooth running of commercial activities
* Take ownership of Accounts Payable, driving efficiency and maximising the potential of a newly implemented automated finance system
* Identify opportunities to streamline, improve, and automate finance processes, playing a key role in the ongoing evolution of the finance function
* Be an integral part of a fast‐moving finance team with genuine influence and visibility
Skills and Experience
Essential
* Qualified or QBE
* Experience of working in or with operational Finance teams
* Adept at Excel and willing to learn new systems
* Excellent communication and proactive attitude to managing stakeholders
* Capable of working independently
* Good eye for detail and passion for accuracy
Desirable
* Experience with Xero, Payhawk or ERP systems
* Previous experience in a scale‐up, high‐growth technology, scientific or engineering company
* Comfortable asking questions
Benefits
* Excellent salary
* Share options scheme available (so you own a piece of the company)
* Pension scheme (6% Company contribution)
* Life Assurance (3x Salary)
* Medicash cash plan
* Flexible working options (both location and times)
* Annual leave allowance of 33 days (including bank holidays)
* Training and career development
* Family friendly policies
* Cycle to work scheme
* EV leasing scheme
* Volunteer leave policy
* IP bonus scheme
* Involvement in collaborative projects and grants with University of Cambridge and other partners
* Recruitment referral bonus
* Regular social events including frequent company lunches, annual summer party, Christmas party, team building and wellbeing activities
Equal Opportunities
We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
Our inclusive workplace helps ensure better outcomes for all employees. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.
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