EMJ
Management Accountant
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The Accountant
The Accountant plays a critical role in ensuring EMJ has accurate, timely, and insightful financial information to support strategic decision-making. This role is responsible for delivering robust monthly management accounts, driving financial accuracy, and providing clear analysis of business performance to support growth, profitability, and operational efficiency.
What You’ll Do
- Month-End Close & Management Accounts (Core Deliverable): Own the month-end close process, ensuring accurate and timely management accounts, including accruals, prepayments, journals, reconciliations, and departmental cost analysis.
- Financial Analysis & Reporting: Produce monthly management reports, including budget and forecast variance analysis, with clear commentary on performance, risks, opportunities, and key trends.
- Balance Sheet Integrity & Controls: Own balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accounts are fully reconciled, reviewed, supported, and audit-ready, with discrepancies resolved promptly.
- Cash Flow & Cash Management: Review cash flow forecasts, provide insight on variances to prior forecasts, and ensure sufficient funding across entities through effective cash management.
- Payroll Processing & Reconciliation: Manage payroll and commission processing, ensuring accurate payroll postings, reconciliations, and fully supported payroll balances.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Support annual budgets and rolling forecasts, working with stakeholders to ensure accurate assumptions and ongoing performance monitoring.
- Review and Development of Finance Assistant: Conduct regular 1:1s, provide coaching and feedback, and support the ongoing development and increased responsibility of the Finance Assistant.
- Process Improvement & Financial Controls: Drive continuous improvement of financial processes, controls, reporting, and automation to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Cash-In KPI Responsibility: Own cash-in KPI reporting, providing analysis, insights, and recommendations to improve performance where targets are not achieved.
- Tax & Compliance Responsibilities: Ensure all tax and compliance obligations are met on time, working with local accountants to support accurate statutory reporting.
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Who You Are
- Qualified Accountant: ACCA, CIMA, or ACA qualified with a strong understanding of accounting principles and their practical application in a commercial environment.
- Month-End & Reporting Experience: Proven experience managing month-end processes, including management accounts, journals, accruals, prepayments, and reconciliations.
- Financial Analysis & Excel Skills: Strong analytical abilities with advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and financial data analysis.
- Stakeholder Management & Business Partnering: Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders, challenge constructively, and explain financial information in a clear, commercial manner.
Key Information
- Salary: £45,000-£50,000
- Reports to: Finance Director
- Hours: 8.30am – 5pm, Mon-Fri
- Working pattern: Hybrid, 3 days in the office (5 days in the office during probation)
- Location: This role is based onsite in our London/Moorgate office
What's in it for you
- Enjoy Bupa medical cashback after passing probation and Aviva private medical insurance after one year, keeping you covered when it matters most.
- Start with 25 days of holiday, plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 30 days!).
- From our legendary Summer Ball to festive Christmas celebrations, we love bringing everyone together.
- Enjoy free breakfast and fresh fruit to keep you energised.
- Get the chance to attend amazing events in the Wembley box.
- Take advantage of a 1.5-hour gym lunch and join company clubs, including running, football, board games, and chess.
- Our buddy program for new starters ensures you feel at home from day one.
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About EMJ
EMJ's purpose is to elevate the quality of healthcare globally, by supporting all healthcare professionals with free and easy access to medical journals and lifelong learning opportunities. We do this to create Gold Medal Winners, enabling healthcare professionals to become the best versions of themselves. Similarly we equip our employees with all the skills, tools and knowledge they need to be in the top 10% of what they do and create Gold Medal Winners in the company.
At EMJ, we believe in…
- Taking care of your own: We all need to be proactive and responsible for our own actions. This will lead to an inspiring place to work that we are all proud of.
- Going the extra mile: Always give your best performance, this will create a team that is different to anything else, full of hard working, gold medal winners.
- Entire buy in: Everyone has loyalty to our vision, values, culture, and the long-term goals of EMJ. We are committed to doing so in a positive and passionate way.
Find out more about us and careers at EMJ.
Application process
Your CV will be reviewed by the Recruitment team. If successful, we will be in touch to arrange a telephone call. Following this there will be a 2-stage interview process, one focused on competencies and one on the EMJ values.
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