Rutherford Cross is working with an established and growing group to appoint a Group Management Accountant to play a key role in delivering accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting across a multi-entity environment.

This is a high‑impact position offering excellent exposure to senior leadership, involvement in acquisitions, and the chance to contribute to ongoing process and systems improvements.

Key Responsibilities

Group reporting & consolidation

• Prepare monthly consolidated management accounts including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow
• Produce board reporting packs with commentary on performance vs budget and prior year
• Deliver KPI reporting aligned with investor and commercial requirements

Budgeting & forecasting

• Coordinate annual budgeting process across all entities
• Prepare quarterly reforecasts
• Develop scenario analysis and sensitivity modelling to support strategic decisions

Cash management

• Responsible for cash management including the credit control function
• Prepare 3-month rolling cash flow forecasts and cash reports for board pack

Controls & process improvement

• Work with Group FC to strengthen financial controls across the group
• Standardise reporting formats and improve reporting timelines
• Drive improvements in systems, automation, and reporting efficiency
• Support year-end audit process and liaise with external auditors.

Acquisitions & integration

• Support target financial due diligence processes as required
• Assist in onboarding newly acquired entities into group reporting structures
• Harmonise accounting policies, reporting timetables, and financial controls post-acquisition
• Understanding and recording revenue and cost synergies of acquisitions

About You

You will be a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with strong management accounting and consolidation experience. You’ll bring excellent technical accounting knowledge, strong Excel capability, and the confidence to communicate clearly across the business. A proactive, improvement‑focused mindset will be essential, as the role offers significant scope to help develop processes and systems as the group continues to grow.

Highlights

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office
• Scope for career development

For more information, please contact Jonathan Donnelly at Rutherford Cross: [email protected]

Our client is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.