MacGregor Black
Management Accountant
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Management Accountant
Are you a qualified or part-qualified CIMA, ACCA or ACA accountant with strong management accounting experience?
Do you enjoy business partnering with commercial and operational stakeholders, using finance to influence decisions rather than simply reporting the numbers?
Would you like to join a well-established consumer brand where Finance plays a key role in supporting commercial decision-making?
MacGregor Black is working with a well-established, internationally recognised consumer brand to appoint a Management Accountant to join their Finance team.
This is a commercially focused position for an accountant who can combine strong technical accounting skills with excellent business partnering and stakeholder management capability.
You will take ownership of the financial performance of designated areas of the business, providing management information, forecasting and analysis while acting as a key Finance Business Partner to senior stakeholders and budget holders.
A major part of the role will be building strong relationships across the business, understanding the operational and commercial drivers behind performance, challenging assumptions and helping stakeholders make better-informed decisions.
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The role would suit someone who enjoys getting beyond the numbers, understanding the wider business and using financial insight to influence, challenge and support commercial performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the preparation and delivery of monthly management accounts and performance reporting for designated areas of the business.
- Provide meaningful variance analysis, explaining movements against budget, forecast and prior year.
- Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner, developing strong relationships with senior stakeholders, budget holders and operational teams.
- Provide commercial insight and constructive challenge, helping stakeholders understand the financial impact of their decisions.
- Take ownership of budgeting, forecasting and financial planning across your areas of responsibility.
- Support flash forecasting, orderbook reviews and forward-looking analysis to identify emerging risks and opportunities.
- Provide financial analysis to support investment decisions, scenario modelling and wider commercial projects.
- Develop a strong understanding of revenue, margin, cost and profitability drivers across the business.
- Identify opportunities to improve, automate and simplify finance processes and reporting.
- Support wider Finance activities including audit, controls and ad hoc commercial analysis.
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What We're Looking For
- Ideally fully qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA, although strong part-qualified candidates with relevant experience will also be considered.
- Strong experience across management accounting, FP&A or commercial finance.
- Proven ability to act as a Finance Business Partner, building credibility and influencing stakeholders outside of Finance.
- Experience producing management information, budgets, forecasts and detailed financial analysis.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to turn financial data into clear, actionable insight.
- Confident working with and constructively challenging senior non-finance stakeholders.
- Ideally, experience within retail, consumer goods, FMCG, apparel or another multi-channel environment.
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large datasets.
- Strong Power BI / BI reporting capability.
- Experience with ERP systems. Infor experience would be advantageous.
- A proactive, analytical and commercially minded approach, with strong attention to detail and ownership.
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