Management Accountant

Description:

Robert Half is partnering with a highly respected charitable organisation to recruit a Management Accountant. This is a high-impact role offering exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to influence strategic decision-making through high-quality financial insight.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will lead budgeting, forecasting and management reporting, acting as a trusted business partner to senior stakeholders. You will help embed best-in-class financial planning, support continuous improvement and play a key role in developing the organisation’s analytics and impact measurement capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the annual budgeting process, reforecasts and scenario modelling.
• Produce monthly and quarterly management accounts with clear variance analysis and commentary.
• Develop financial reporting and performance metrics, including cost allocations and balanced scorecard measures.
• Support forecasting, business cases and investment decisions across programmes and initiatives.
• Provide insightful analysis of income, expenditure and value for money.
• Support payroll, headcount planning and employment cost modelling.
• Drive continuous improvement in finance processes, systems and reporting.

Your Experience

Essential

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
• Strong background in management reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
• Proven finance business partnering with senior and non-finance stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Sage 200 and advanced Excel.
• Collaborative, improvement-focused approach.

Desirable

• Charity or not-for-profit experience.
• Exposure to value-for-money analysis, impact measurement or business case preparation.
• Experience with ERP / ERM systems.