Senior Management Accounting/Finance Manager
We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a top 30 accounting firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.
We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.
Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.
The Role
Responsible for enhancing financial accuracy, efficiency, and transformation across Gravita. Working closely with the Group Financial Controller and collaborating with various teams, the role involves improving processes within Accounts Payable (AP), management accounts, and financial system integrations. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in bridging teams, solving complex financial issues related to revenue, cost allocation, and variance analysis.
Key Responsibilities:
- Improve and streamline financial processes, focusing on accounts payable, management accounts, and system integrations.
- Perform detailed variance analysis on revenue and costs, identifying discrepancies and providing actionable insights.
- Ensure accurate financial reporting, reviewing and improving processes to meet business needs.
- Collaborate with multiple teams to resolve issues related to timesheets, WIP (Work in Progress), VAT returns (RFPs), and payment requests.
- Implement and ensure the smooth integration of financial systems such as CCH and BC, while addressing any AP-related issues.
- Take ownership of problem-solving within finance workstreams, providing preliminary solutions for review by the Group Financial Controller.
- Work on special financial transformation projects, including those related to acquisitions and operational improvements.
- Assist in preparing management reports and ensuring the correct allocation of costs to service lines versus budget expectations.
Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a management accounting role preferably within a professional services environment
- Advanced Excel experience is essential, familiarity with financial systems such as CCH and Business Central (or similar) highly preferred
- Strong analytical skills to interpret financial data, solve problems, and implement improvements
- Ability to identify process inefficiencies and implement solutions independently
- Strong communication skills to liaise effectively across different teams and senior management
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, change oriented environment
Your Career with Gravita
When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.
We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.
The Nitty Gritty
- Our standard working week is a 37.5-hour week on a hybrid basis (with up to 50% of your time across the month home based and the other 50% office based)
- Core working hours are 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday
- Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fast-paced changes.
- Your development won’t be forgotten, our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.
- It's a busy, fast-paced environment here at Gravita. Feel free to check out our social media channels (Instagram, X, LinkedIn and Glassdoor).
- Department
- Group Support
- Role
- Finance
- Locations
- Aldgate Tower
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
About Gravita
We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a top 30 accounting firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.
We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.
Senior Management Accounting/Finance Manager
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