Management Accountant

Step up into a finance role with real influence

Fire Protection Online are a fast-growing e-commerce business supplying fire and safety equipment in a regulated market. We are hiring a Management Accountant who wants to do more than produce reports: someone who will shape how the business understands its numbers and uses them to make decisions.

You’ll work closely with the senior team, work alongside a bookkeeper and external accountants, and own the management reporting. The role is built to grow, and for the right person it could develop into Finance Manager

What you'll be doing

• Owning the monthly management accounts and delivering them on time and accurately
• Building budgets, forecasts and cash-flow models
• Digging into variances and explaining what's driving them
• Tracking KPIs and presenting findings and commentary to the board and senior managers
• Analysing sales and commercial data and turning it into practical recommendations
• Working with sales and operations colleagues so the wider business understands its financial performance
• Supporting the bookkeeper and credit-control resource and helping shape the day-to-day finance function
• Spotting inefficiencies, tightening controls and building reporting and planning processes that scale

What we're looking for

• A proven track record producing management accounts
• Hands-on experience of budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management and variance analysis
• Ability and experience in preparation of statutory accounts.
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to turn data into insight people can act on
• Experience reporting KPIs to senior leaders or a board
• Confidence working with non-finance colleagues and explaining numbers simply
• A proactive, improvement-minded approach
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• A willingness to be visible around the business, not tied to your desk

Qualifications

Fully qualified/part-qualified ACCA is a must and a demonstrable track record in a similar role matters more than the letters after your name.

Nice to have

• An entrepreneurial streak and enthusiasm for helping build a growing business
• Ambition to move into strategic finance leadership
• Experience in an SME, owner-managed, e-commerce, distribution or other fast-paced commercial setting (not essential)

What you'll get

• A key role in building and improving the finance function
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and board-level decisions
• Genuine scope to expand the role and progress over time
• A collaborative, commercially focused team in Canterbury
• Benefits package and holiday entitlement to be confirmed at interview stage

Important: please read before applying

• This is a 100% office-based role in Canterbury. There is no remote or hybrid option.
• You must already live within a realistic daily commute of Canterbury, Kent.