Management Accountant

Salary/Rate:Up to £50000 per annum + Study Support, Pension, Parking
Job type:Perm
Location:Leeds, West Yorkshire

About the Role

Sewell Wallis are recruiting for a Management Accountant for a fantastic events company based in Leeds!

This West Yorkshire business has grown year on year and is working with PE funding. The successful candidate will be working for a approx. 20 mil turnover SME, overseeing the management accounts for the different business entities, managing a small team and growing the business, closely working with the Finance Director.

If you are successful in achieving this Management Accountant role, you'll have fantastic career development within this business, not only is the FD a great mentor from a reputable Big 4 background, the intention is to promote internally to Finance Manager within the year given you tangible progression plans to a No.2 position.

This company is looking for someone switched on, has excellent attention to detail and with real drive, who is looking for a role that they can make real business changes and influence growth, ideal for someone hands on!

What will you be doing?

  • Ownership of the monthly management accounts for 4 entities
  • Month end journal entries with analysis and documentation
  • Monthly balance sheet reconciliation
  • Collaboration and liaising with internal and external stakeholders and advisors as required to ensure compliance and efficiency
  • Post bank accounts and assist with cash flow
  • Vat returns
  • Inter-company reconciliations
  • Payroll for a small team
  • Lead the year end audit and statutory account preparation
  • Mentor and lead team members

What skills are we looking for?

  • Qualified Accountant, or close to qualifying (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
  • Excellent attention to detail and highly technical
  • 3 years in a finance department, ideally within a SME
  • Confident with Excel
  • Experience managing a small team
  • Sage Intacct experience would be desirable but certainly isn't essential

What's on offer?

  • Salary of up to £50,000
  • Excellent mentor with tangible progression opportunities within the year
  • 25 days of annual leave with bank holidays off
  • Pension contributions
  • Study support if required
  • Salary-sacrifice cycle to work/electric car scheme

Send us your CV below, or contact Inci Evcil for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.

Job ref: IE/5935Post Date: 04.06.25

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