Management Accountant

Management Accountant | Winchester – On Site | Permanent | £50k - £60k

We are supporting a well-established organisation in Winchester in their search for a Management Accountant to join their finance team.

This is a hands-on role with real impact, focused on strengthening financial controls, improving processes and ensuring the finance function operates efficiently and is fully audit-ready. You’ll work closely with senior leadership while supporting and developing a small finance team.

The Role

This position will take ownership of financial controls, reconciliations and month-end processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency and ongoing audit readiness.

Key responsibilities include:

• Implementing and continuously improving financial controls and reconciliation processes
• Leading month-end close, including management accounts and variance analysis
• Preparing audit schedules and supporting year-end audit processes (FRS102/SORP)
• Supervising and developing a small finance team (AP, Payroll, Accounts)
• Strengthening processes across journals, payments, coding and control procedures
• Overseeing income, billing and debtor management processes, including fee income and associated reconciliations
• Supporting processes around fee billing and VAT treatment, ensuring accuracy and compliance
• Driving ongoing process improvements and efficiencies across the finance function

About You

You will be a hands-on and detail-oriented finance professional with strong experience in controls, reconciliations and audit processes.

You will likely have:

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualification (or part-qualified)
• Strong background in financial controls and reconciliations
• Experience delivering month-end and audit processes
• Previous experience supervising or supporting junior team members
• Strong Excel and systems skills
• A proactive approach with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Experience within an education environment (ideally independent schools), with exposure to fee income, billing and VAT on fees, is essential

Why apply?

This is a great opportunity to step into a role where you can make a lasting impact — improving processes, strengthening controls and supporting the development of a finance team within a stable and well-established organisation.

Talent Finance is committed to promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace. All applications are reviewed on merit, and we welcome candidates from all backgrounds.