Finance Assistant supporting day - to - day Accounts Payable operations in fast - paced environment. Join BLAST for creating extraordinary live and digital experiences in the esports industry.
About the role
- Management Accountant driving financial decision-making for growing UK business through insights and analytical support. Collaborating with teams to enhance profitability and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- This role supports a growing UK business by bringing clear thinking, good judgement, and commercial insight to financial decision-making.
- As Management Accountant, you will own the delivery of accurate, timely management accounts and provide practical analysis that helps leaders understand performance and make better decisions.
- You will work closely with teams across the organisation, offering insight that drives profitability, efficiency, and sustainable growth.
- The role has real visibility and influence, with your work shaping business outcomes.
- Key responsibilities include producing monthly management accounts, analysing utilisation and margins, managing project P&Ls, forecasting, and partnering with practice leads to support commercial decisions.
- You will also contribute to headcount planning and improvements to reporting processes.
Requirements
- Ownership of monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and insight
- Utilisation, recovery rate, and margin reporting across the business
- Project P&Ls and variance analysis, highlighting drivers of performance
- Forecasting and reforecasting, supporting short- and medium-term planning
- Business partnering with practice leads to support commercial decision-making
- Headcount cost modelling and support for growth planning
- In your first 3–6 months, success might look like: Management accounts delivered confidently and on time, with clear commentary
- Stakeholders using your insight to make better commercial decisions
- Strong relationships built with practice leads and leadership
- Greater clarity around margins, utilisation, and cost drivers
- Early improvements to reporting or forecasting processes as the business evolves
Benefits
- Proven management accounting experience, including hands-on ownership of monthly management accounts, P&L, balance sheet understanding and variance analysis
- Strong commercial judgement - able to explain numbers clearly, focus on what matters and translate data into insight for non-finance stakeholders
- Experience working in a growing or changing environment where processes are evolving rather than fixed
- An ownership mindset - you take responsibility for accuracy, deadlines and outcomes
- A collaborative, down-to-earth working style, building trust across the business
- Solid Excel skills and confidence working with accounting systems (e.g. Xero, QBO) and data sets
- Professional services and global business experience
- Nice to have: Experience in a scale-up or PE/VC-backed environment
- Exposure to budgeting, forecasting, or longer-term planning
- Experience improving or building reporting processes
- Interest in automation, BI tools, or dashboards
- Curiosity about how the wider business operates beyond finance
- This role might not be the right fit if you’re looking for: A narrow, transactional accounting role with limited stakeholder interaction
- Highly rigid processes where there’s no opportunity to influence or improve ways of working
- A purely technical role without commercial context
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