Sheffield, Yorkshire
Hays
Management Accountant – Sheffield Permanent Great Role for Ambitious Finance Talent

Your new company
We’re working with a successful organisation seeking a driven and ambitious Management Accountant. This role is ideal for someone who is fully qualified (ACCA / CIMA / ACA) or a finalist actively studying. You’ll need strong management accounting experience, confidence to hit the ground running, and the ability to engage and challenge stakeholders at all levels. You’ll support senior leadership with high quality financial insight, help drive spend control, and play a key role in financial planning and performance analysis.Your new role
In this role, you’ll take ownership of core management accounting activities while providing valuable financial insight to support decision making across the business. You’ll work closely with operational teams, challenge spend where needed, and ensure financial information is accurate, timely and meaningful.Your responsibilities will include:

• Preparing monthly management accounts
• Completing detailed variance analysis, including cost reconciliations and investigation of profit variances
• Supporting budgeting and forecasting cycles, including cash flow planning
• Managing revenue recognition, WIP reconciliation and contract accounting
• Ensuring accurate revenue and cost allocation across projects, contracts or work streams
• Producing balance sheet reconciliations and proactively resolving issues
• Challenging managers on spend, overheads and cost control to drive accountability
• Partnering with operational and overhead teams to support informed financial decision making
• Delivering ad hoc financial analysis to support strategy and performance
• Preparing information for Group Finance and liaising with external auditors as required

What you’ll need to succeed
We’re looking for someone who brings strong management accounting capabilities and a confident, engaging approach to working with people across the business. You’ll be comfortable analysing performance, challenging assumptions, and providing clear financial insight that supports better decision making. This role suits someone driven, detail focused and able to stay organised in a fast moving environment.
You will bring:

• A recognised accounting qualification or active progression toward one (ACCA / CIMA / ACA)
• Strong IT capability, with excellent Excel skills
• Solid experience in management accounting, ideally gained within a larger or more complex organisation
• Experience working with different profit centres and providing clear, insightful variance reporting
• Solid understanding of accounting principles; any exposure to IFRS would be highly beneficial.
• Familiarity with contract based or project accounting environments

What you’ll get in return

• Salary up to £50,000, depending on experience
• Study support available for those working toward final qualification
• Hybrid working, with an expectation to be in the office regularly to collaborate with key stakeholders
• Flexible start and finish times to support work-life balance
• Clear progression opportunities, with the potential to develop into a Finance Manager role for the right person

What you need to do now
If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn’t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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Sheffield, Yorkshire
Hays
Management Accountant – Sheffield Permanent Great Role for Ambitious Finance Talent

Your new company
We’re working with a successful organisation seeking a driven and ambitious Management Accountant. This role is ideal for someone who is fully qualified (ACCA / CIMA / ACA) or a finalist actively studying. You’ll need strong management accounting experience, confidence to hit the ground running, and the ability to engage and challenge stakeholders at all levels. You’ll support senior leadership with high quality financial insight, help drive spend control, and play a key role in financial planning and performance analysis.Your new role
In this role, you’ll take ownership of core management accounting activities while providing valuable financial insight to support decision making across the business. You’ll work closely with operational teams, challenge spend where needed, and ensure financial information is accurate, timely and meaningful.Your responsibilities will include:

• Preparing monthly management accounts
• Completing detailed variance analysis, including cost reconciliations and investigation of profit variances
• Supporting budgeting and forecasting cycles, including cash flow planning
• Managing revenue recognition, WIP reconciliation and contract accounting
• Ensuring accurate revenue and cost allocation across projects, contracts or work streams
• Producing balance sheet reconciliations and proactively resolving issues
• Challenging managers on spend, overheads and cost control to drive accountability
• Partnering with operational and overhead teams to support informed financial decision making
• Delivering ad hoc financial analysis to support strategy and performance
• Preparing information for Group Finance and liaising with external auditors as required

What you’ll need to succeed
We’re looking for someone who brings strong management accounting capabilities and a confident, engaging approach to working with people across the business. You’ll be comfortable analysing performance, challenging assumptions, and providing clear financial insight that supports better decision making. This role suits someone driven, detail focused and able to stay organised in a fast moving environment.
You will bring:

• A recognised accounting qualification or active progression toward one (ACCA / CIMA / ACA)
• Strong IT capability, with excellent Excel skills
• Solid experience in management accounting, ideally gained within a larger or more complex organisation
• Experience working with different profit centres and providing clear, insightful variance reporting
• Solid understanding of accounting principles; any exposure to IFRS would be highly beneficial.
• Familiarity with contract based or project accounting environments

What you’ll get in return

• Salary up to £50,000, depending on experience
• Study support available for those working toward final qualification
• Hybrid working, with an expectation to be in the office regularly to collaborate with key stakeholders
• Flexible start and finish times to support work-life balance
• Clear progression opportunities, with the potential to develop into a Finance Manager role for the right person

What you need to do now
If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn’t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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