Management Accountant - Fully Qualified

Permanent | Fulltime

Salary:  Up to £60,000 per annum + annual company bonus

Hours:  Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Location: Winnersh, RG41 5TP (Hybrid)

Are you looking for a role where you can make a real difference? This is your chance to step into a fast-moving, high-impact finance position that will challenge and excite you. As a Management Accountant for REL UK Group, you won’t just crunch numbers—you’ll be a driving force behind financial excellence.

You’ll play a crucial role in our business and Customer Budgets, providing real-time insights, enhancing processes, and working closely with key stakeholders to shape the future of our finance function. Your expertise will directly contribute to smarter decision-making and business growth.

This is an exciting new role complementing our existing Management Accounts function owning the Management Accounts for our Retail Active agency. If you’re ready to elevate your career in a dynamic and collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Revenue & Cost Management: Oversee revenue recognition and manage costs for key revenue streams.
• Collaborative Reporting: Work alongside other management accountants to ensure precise financial reporting.
• Performance Reviews: Lead review meetings with the broader business team to ensure performance adjustments are reflected
• Financial Support: Be the go-to expert for gross profit queries, offering critical financial support.
• Customer Reconciliations: Manage and process reconciliations, including cost-plus reconciliations.
• Client Account Management: Collaborate with senior management to help steer client accounts.
• Budgeting & Quotations: Assist in preparing budgets and quotations for both new and ongoing client relationships.
• Month-End & Year-End Reporting: Contribute to monthly management accounts and support the preparation of annual budgets.
• Forecasting: Help create monthly and quarterly forecasting reports to keep the business on track.
• Journal Processing: Manage monthly journal entries, including accruals, prepayments, and deferred income.
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations: Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations to ensure accuracy
• System Management: Be a key user of our SAP-based financial reporting system (BPC) and assist in maintaining Dynamics 365.

What You’ll Bring

• ACCA or CIMA fully qualified 
• Strong experience in management accounting, particularly in month-end processes
• Expertise in cost-plus revenue recognition models
• Proficient in Excel with demonstrable experience in creating processes, tools, and reports
• Strong financial systems knowledge and ability to develop new solutions
• Familiarity with Dynamics 365 (desirable)

What You'll get In Return

• Competitive salary, performance bonus
• 24 days annual leave (increasing to 29 days) + bank holidays
• Exciting perks: Pension (4%), Life Insurance,  Electric Vehicle Scheme, Medicash, Gymflex, Perkbox, and Taste Card
• A supportive, inclusive environment with opportunities to grow and innovate
• Structured learning, mentorship, and pathways

Sounds like this is the role for you, please apply and we will review your application with interest.

Eligibility: please only apply if you have full right to work in the UK without Visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Founded in 2015, Advantage Smollan Limited (ASL) is jointly owned by Advantage Solutions (Advantage, based in the US) and Global Smollan Holdings (Smollan, based in South Africa) providing unified sales, marketing, and technology solutions for consumer electronics and goods manufacturers and retailers across the world.

Advantage Smollan offers the industry’s best capabilities and technology along with the local knowledge to address the unique dynamics of individual markets. The company combines Advantage’s and Smollan’s best practices and resources with the extensive experience and market leadership of each portfolio company – all aligned in service excellence, thought leadership, and entrepreneurial spirit to deliver better results for clients and customers. 

For more information, visit www.advantagesmollan.com.

For more information on Smollan, visit www.smollan.com.

For more information on Advantage, visit www.advantagesolutions.net.