SF Recruitment are working with a well-established business in Rugby to recruit an experienced Management Accountant.  This is a key role within a complex, project-led environment, responsible for financial governance, reporting integrity, operational finance, and commercial support.

The role will work closely with senior operational stakeholders, project teams, and central finance to ensure strong financial controls, accurate reporting, effective forecasting, and robust decision-making across the Rugby operation.

The Role

As Management Accountant you will be responsible for:

• Owning financial governance, controls, approval processes, and compliance
• Reviewing project performance, reporting, reconciliations, and month-end outputs
• Supporting operational and project teams with financial insight and commercial analysis
• Leading budgeting, rolling forecasting, variance analysis, and financial modelling
• Supporting tendering, bids, pricing, cost estimates, and commercial risk reviews
• Managing cashflow forecasting, payment approvals, AP/AR performance, and expenses
• Maintaining financial systems, master data, supplier reconciliations, and reporting processes
• Driving continuous improvement across finance processes, systems, controls, and reporting
• Managing and supporting a Finance Administrator

The Candidate

• CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualification, or equivalent experience
• Strong management accounts, financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting experience
• Good understanding of financial controls, governance, compliance, and audit processes
• Experience supervising or managing a team
• Advanced Excel skills and strong financial systems knowledge
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• The confidence to challenge, influence, and support operational decision-making

Experience within a project-led, engineering, construction, manufacturing, infrastructure, multi-site, or operational environment would be highly advantageous.