Management Accountant
Job description
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Location: Hertfordshire
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Qualification: ACCA / ACA / CIMA qualified
An established, international engineering and construction business is seeking a commercially minded finance professional to join its growing finance function. Operating across multiple jurisdictions, the organisation supports major infrastructure and construction projects and is known for its technical expertise and long-term client relationships.
This role offers broad exposure across operational finance, financial reporting, and group accounting, making it ideal for someone who enjoys variety and hands-on involvement.
The Role
Reporting into the Group Financial Controller, you will play a key role in supporting financial control and reporting across UK and overseas operations.
Responsibilities will include:
- Preparing monthly management accounts
- Financial analysis across multiple entities
- Preparation of accounts for overseas entities
- Contribution to group consolidated year-end reporting
- Variance analysis, KPI reporting, and commercial insight
- Review of intercompany transactions and reconciliations
- Financial reporting for stakeholders and external governance
- Balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, and prepayments
- Support during external audits
- Ad-hoc reporting and finance projects as required
- Fully qualified accountant (ACCA / ACA / CIMA)
- Experience within construction, engineering, or project-based environments preferred
- Comfortable working with international groups and overseas entities and multi-currency operations
- Strong attention to detail with a practical, problem-solving mindset
- Flexible and collaborative, willing to support the wider finance team when needed
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⭐ Highlight your ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualification prominently as this is explicitly required for the role
📊 Quantify your construction/engineering experience: 'Managed accounts for 8 infrastructure projects worth £12M'
🌐 Emphasise multi-currency and international experience as they operate across multiple jurisdictions
🎯 Showcase variance analysis and KPI reporting skills as these are key responsibilities mentioned
🤝 Demonstrate collaborative approach and willingness to support wider finance teams as flexibility is valued
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- •Prepared monthly management accounts for 12 overseas entities across 4 currencies, delivering consolidated reporting 3 days ahead of month-end deadline
- •Led variance analysis for £8.5M construction projects, identifying cost overruns early and providing commercial insights that saved 12% on material procurement
- •Managed intercompany reconciliations for group with 15 subsidiaries, reducing audit queries by 40% through improved documentation and controls
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Your Management Accountant position at this international engineering firm represents exactly the multi-jurisdictional finance challenge I seek. My ACCA qualification and experience with consolidated reporting across overseas entities align perfectly with your requirements for supporting UK and international operations.
My background in construction finance has equipped me with the commercial mindset and technical skills needed to excel in project-based environments. I am particularly drawn to the variety this role offers, from variance analysis to stakeholder reporting, and the opportunity to contribute to group consolidated year-end processes.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How would you approach preparing consolidated accounts for a group with overseas entities?
- ›Describe your experience with multi-currency accounting and foreign exchange considerations
- ›What KPIs would you track for a construction project and how would you report variance analysis?
- ›How do you ensure accuracy when reconciling intercompany transactions across different jurisdictions?
- ›Walk me through your month-end process for management accounts preparation
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time when you had to support colleagues outside your immediate responsibilities
- ›Describe a situation where your attention to detail prevented a significant error
- ›Give an example of when you had to solve a complex financial problem with limited information
- ›Tell me about a time when you had to adapt quickly to changing priorities in a finance role
- ›Describe how you've collaborated with non-finance stakeholders to provide commercial insight
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time when you had to support colleagues outside your immediate responsibilities
Describe a situation where your attention to detail prevented a significant error