Senior Management Accountant

Ready to move beyond routine month-end reporting and play a pivotal role in shaping how finance delivers value?

SF Partners is recruiting a Senior Management Accountant to join a fast-evolving, private equity-backed services business based in Derby. Operating on a full-time, permanent basis with a hybrid working setup, this role offers an exciting blend of core management accounting and forward-looking business transformation. Working directly alongside senior finance leadership, you will have genuine autonomy to challenge legacy methods, streamline operations, and build automated, scalable processes that support sustainable growth. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare the comprehensive monthly management accounts, including multi-entity and group consolidations, alongside detailed balance sheet reconciliations.
• Maintain, build, and challenge the 12-month rolling financial forecast, driving budgeting, variance analysis, and commercial insight for executive decision-makers.
• Champion finance process transformation and automation, reviewing workflows from the ground up to eradicate manual inefficiency and enhance output accuracy.
• Support the year-end financial audit and statutory accounts preparation, ensuring strict alignment with relevant accounting standards and acting as a key contact for external auditors.
• Manage regulatory and compliance submissions, including data provision for FCA reporting, preparation of VAT returns, and oversight of monthly payroll processing and annual P11D submissions via an external bureau.
• Design meaningful management information and KPI reporting that translate complex figures into clear, actionable commercial direction.

Required Skills & Experience

• Fully CIMA qualified (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) with proven post-qualification experience.
• Strong background in producing monthly management accounts, multi-entity consolidations, and complex reconciliations.
• Demonstrable experience managing rolling forecasts, budgeting cycles, and variance analysis.
• Confident technical knowledge of UK statutory compliance, external audit preparation, VAT return submissions, and bureau payroll processes.
• Hands-on experience delivering finance process improvement, automation, or workflow redesign.
• Familiarity with providing data for regulatory reporting, particularly within FCA-regulated frameworks.

Nice-to-have

• Prior experience working within the services, client services, or B2B professional services sector.
• Involvement in finance system implementations, migrations, or ERP rollouts.
• Experience with informal coaching or mentoring junior finance team members.

What We Offer / Why Join

This is an exceptional opportunity to make a tangible, visible mark on a finance department undergoing purposeful change. At SF Partners, you will step into a role that values your ideas, encourages you to question existing processes, and grants you the practical backing to implement real automation and structural change. You will work closely with leadership in an environment where your expertise directly influences strategic decisions and operational efficiency across the business.