We Do Group
Management Accountant
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Management Accountant – Infrastructure
Location: Chester – 4 days office / 1 day from home Type: Permanent Newly created role within a growing international finance team
Salary: £50,000–£60,000
About the Role
Are you a qualified accountant who enjoys owning month-end processes, maintaining clean ledgers, and establishing order within a multi-entity group? thriving in a dynamic, expanding business where you can build and refine processes rather than merely inherit them?
We Do Group is looking for a Management Accountant to join our growing international infrastructure business. This newly established role reports to the Group Financial Controller, working alongside a new Project Accountant.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Owning entity-level financials (accruals, journals, balance sheet reconciliations).
- Ensuring clean, reconciled data feeds into group consolidation and reporting.
- Supporting a globally distributed team (hub-and-spoke model) to ensure proper transaction handling.
- Assisting in scaling the accounting function as new regions expand.
- Training and mentoring an accountancy apprentice.
Responsibilities
Your role responsibilities will include:
- Monthly Close
- Own the month-end close across all group entities.
- Deliver a clean, reconciled trial balance for consolidation.
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Data Accuracy & Controls
- Review transaction accuracy from local teams, resolving coding issues at source.
- Prepare and post accruals, prepayments, and month-end journals cross-regionally.
- Manage the balance sheet reconciliation schedule, ensuring timely reconciliations.
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Reconciliation & Analytical Work
- Resolve reconciling items, escalating unresolved disputes to the Group Financial Controller.
- Produce entity-level management accounts supporting group financial reporting.
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Intercompany & Fixed Asset Management
- Process and reconcile intercompany transactions, flag discrepancies.
- Maintain the fixed asset register, manage depreciation, and conduct bank reconciliations.
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Policy & Process Support
- Apply group accounting policies (capitalisation, depreciation, accruals, FX) consistently.
- Support Group FC and auditors with reconciled working papers and query responses.
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Process Improvement & Scaling
- Help set up new accounting processes and controls as entities expand.
- Assist with an upcoming group ERP implementation to migrate from multiple local systems.
Wish List for the Right Candidate
- A qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA, or CIMA) – candidates close to qualification considered.
- Strong balance sheet discipline, including accurate reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and prompt journal postings.
- Comfortable in a fast-growing business, bringing structure to an evolving finance function.
- Willing to mentor a junior accountancy apprentice.
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Requirements
Essential Skills & Experience
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA, or CIMA) – finalists considered.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong working knowledge of MS Excel.
- Experience managing multi-entity reconciliations from diverse systems.
- Proven ability to drive financial closures independently.
Attitudinal Fit
- Self-sufficient and enjoys developing structured processes.
- Can adapt to a fast-evolving financial team.
- Ability to scale operating procedures as the business grows.
Benefits & Perks
- Salary: £50,000–£60,000 (discretionary bonus linked to group performance).
- Flexible Hybrid Work: 4 days in the office, 1 day remote, with flexibility.
- 20 days holiday (plus bank holidays).
- Private healthcare.
- Automatic UK statutory pension scheme.
- On-site parking.
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