Management Accountant

• Own the Businesses month-end close and reporting process, including revenue, direct costs, overheads, accruals, prepayments, deferred in come and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare and review the management accounts pack with clear variance analysis, commentary and actions against budget, forecast and prior periods.
• Drive the monthly invoicing cycle, working with the operations/commercial teams to ensure onboarding, memberships, sales invoices, revenue recognition and deferred income are complete and accurate.
• Oversee supplier PO-to-pay compliance, ensuring supplier invoices are coded to the correct entity, location, project, cost centre and purchase order, with appropriate accrual/prepayment treatment.
• Maintain cash flow forecast, including aged debtors/creditors insight and forecast assumptions for the wider Group cash flow model.
• Own group overhead reporting, allocation methodology and monthly recharge journals, ensuring costs are consistently coded, evidenced and explained.
• Prepare, post and reconcile inter company recharges between entities/business units, ensuring balances agree, are supported by audit trail and are cleared on a timely basis.
• Oversee the Workshop Group subsidiary management accounts pack prepared by the assistant management accountant; review the P&L, balance sheet reconciliations and commentary before submission.
• Business partner with senior leadership team and operational heads to explain results, investigate variances, identify risks/opportunities and support cost control decisions.
• Ownership of business rates management, lead periodic cost reviews across business rates, utilities, parking, facilities and supplier spend to identify savings, billing errors and process improvements.
• Maintain a robust month-end timetable, working papers and evidence file for management reporting.
• Coach and support junior finance colleagues on coding discipline, reconciliations, cut-off, management accounts preparation and issue escalation.
• Support the Group Finance Manager with audit schedules, year-end close, statutory audit queries and continuous improvement of finance processes and controls.
• May require business travel across Plexal and related Group sites.
• Ability to manage and influence through both face-to-face and virtual team environments.
• This role is intended to sit above pure transactional processing and below Group Finance Manager level.

• Competence in clear business communication.
• Strong month-end discipline with the ability to manage multiple reporting deadlines without close supervision.
• Commercially analytical; able to interpret P&L, balance sheet and operational drivers and turn numbers into clear actions.
• Confident stakeholder manager who can challenge coding, spend, forecasts and operational assumptions constructively.
• Advanced Excel skills, including reconciliations, lookups, pivots, modelling and clear review trails.
• High attention to detail with a strong control mindset and willingness to improve processes, not just follow existing ones.
• Able to prepare concise commentary and present financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues. 

• Experience using Power BI or Dynamics Business Central.
• Comfortable improving workflows in a finance system environment.

• Finalist or newly qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Evidence of continued professional development in reporting, systems or process improvement.

• Experience producing or owning monthly management accounts, including variance analysis, commentary, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience with revenue recognition, deferred income, supplier cost control and PO-to-pay compliance.
• Experience preparing or reviewing cash flow inputs, aged debtors/creditors and month-end reporting packs.
• Experience with overhead allocations, inter company recharges, multi-entity reconciliations or group reporting.
• Experience reviewing work prepared by junior colleagues or an Assistant Management Accountant.

• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Experience in workspace, membership, property, facilities, hospitality or multi-site operations.
• Experience with subsidiary management accounts or small-company group reporting.

• Proactive self-starter who can take ownership, identify issues early and propose solutions rather than waiting for instructions.
• Comfortable operating in a changing, growing business with imperfect information and evolving processes.
• Credible and calm when dealing with operational stakeholders, suppliers and internal finance colleagues.
• Organised, resilient and able to prioritise between month-end, business partnering, controls and ad hoc requests.
• Team player with high integrity, accountability and a willingness to coach junior colleagues.

Plexal’s Values:

Mission: We inherit the mission of UK government and deliver it in an agile and creative fashion.

Collaboration: We believe in the power of working together.

Equality: We strengthen ourselves as a team by embracing the different.

Care: People are at the heart of what we do; we care about our customers, members and colleagues.
 
As a start-up, we thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment dedicated to empowering innovators. We embrace individuals who leverage technology and creativity to tackle our greatest challenges head-on. We strongly advocate for maintaining a harmonious work-life balance, our goal is to ensure every member of our team can authentically be themselves and live their best lives. We firmly believe that innovation and creativity flourish when we cultivate a diverse workforce, comprising highly skilled individuals with a wide range of perspectives to contribute.
 
In return we will offer you:

• Salary: £48,000 - £52,000 depending on skills and experience
• Annual bonus scheme
• A generous pension scheme (with a company contribution of up to 10%)
• Private healthcare, life assurance and critical illness cover
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Volunteering day