GRAYCE
Management Accountant
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Role Title: Management Accountant
Job Location: Manchester. 3-days per week in office (Monday to Wednesday), 2-days from home.
Reports to: Financial Controller
Salary: Up to £38,500, depending on experience
About Grayce
We are change and transformation partners for the world's most ambitious organisations. For over a decade, we've delivered measurable impact by identifying, developing, and deploying high-performing talent across the UK and beyond - turning potential into performance for the businesses that need it most.
Joining Grayce means joining a company built on a deeper purpose: championing emerging talent and giving people the platform to build careers, not just complete contracts. Grayce is an exciting period of growth and transformation, which means you'll have the chance to help shape what's next, as well as contribute to the initiatives that define who we are - from ED&I and Sustainability to CSR.
Role Purpose
This opportunity is for a Management Accountant to join a high-performing Finance team where you’ll ensure accurate revenue and overhead records and go beyond the numbers into analysing performance, identifying risks and opportunities, and giving the business the insight it needs to grow.
You’ll join a small, flexible finance team where ideas are acted on. We’re looking for someone who enjoys making improvements to processes and embracing new tools and approaches and gets involved in broader finance tasks as required.
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Responsibilities
The role holder will take ownership across core financial accounting and financial planning and analysis. Day to day responsibilities include:
Financial Accounting
- Ownership of invoice generation process across the business
- Tracking self-bill client revenue and prepayment drawdowns
- Completing monthly revenue reconciliation
- Review and posting of supplier invoices and month end accrual and prepayment journals
Financial Planning and Analysis
- Monthly movement tracking in headcount vs forecast and communications of risks
- Month end reconciliation
- Leading monthly reviews with department leads to produce accurate overhead forecasts
- Working with teams on new spend proposals, renewals and annual budget requests
Business Partnering
- Partnering with Finance and wider teams on process improvements and data quality
- Building relationships with the wider business to support with finance queries
About you
Grayce is seeking an analytical and organised Management Accountant who is highly skilled in Excel. You will ideally have commercial awareness of the consultancy industry with strong business and financial understanding. We’re seeking a self-starter who can work on own initiative.
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You’ll bring:
- Positive attitude and desire to learn
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Ability to deliver insights and identify risks and opportunities
- Inspiration and creativity to improve processes
- Proactivity to seek to implement improved ways of working
- Adaptability to new tools, technology and approaches, with interest in AI adoption
Qualifications and experience
- Demonstrable experience within a Finance team, ideally including month end processes such as accruals, prepayments and reconciliations
- Qualified or Part qualification in CIMA/ ACCA or equivalent
- Previous experience of Sage Intacct and Salesforce advantageous
- Professional experience using generative AI ideal but not essential
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave, increasing annually up to 30 days maximum
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Online wellbeing centre offering health and wellbeing hints, facts, tips and exercises
- Cash Plan – financial cover for optical, dental, therapies and more
- 3% Employer pension contributions
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- Cycle to Work and Smart Tech schemes
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