Group Management Accountant

Group Management Accountant

Company: High Ridge Services UAE
Location: UAE
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: AED 6,000–10,000 per month, dependent on experience and qualifications

About High Ridge Services

High Ridge Services provides professional operational and business support to a growing group of businesses operating across the UK and UAE.

As our operations continue to develop, we are looking for an experienced Group Management Accountant to take ownership of financial reporting, accounting processes and day-to-day financial management across our group companies.

This is a varied, hands-on role offering the opportunity to work closely with the Managing Director and senior management team, providing accurate financial information and insight to support effective decision-making and sustainable business growth.

The Role

The Group Management Accountant will be responsible for maintaining strong financial control across multiple businesses while ensuring management has accurate and timely financial information.

You will manage the monthly accounting cycle, oversee transactional finance, maintain budgets and cash-flow forecasts, manage intercompany accounting and provide meaningful financial analysis to support business decisions.

A key part of the position is supporting the accounting requirements of our UK companies. You will work closely with our external accountants and payroll provider, ensuring that the underlying financial records, reconciliations and supporting information are accurate, complete and provided on time.

The position requires someone who is equally comfortable producing management accounts and maintaining forecasts as they are reviewing reconciliations, posting journals, investigating discrepancies and ensuring the underlying accounting records are accurate.

Key ResponsibilitiesManagement Accounts & Reporting

• Prepare accurate monthly management accounts across multiple group companies.
• Produce monthly profit and loss, balance sheet and cash-flow reporting.
• Complete month-end processes, including journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Maintain accurate balance-sheet schedules and control-account reconciliations.
• Provide monthly financial reporting and analysis to the Managing Director and senior management team.
• Analyse actual financial performance against budgets and forecasts.
• Identify trends, material variances, risks and opportunities within financial performance.
• Investigate financial discrepancies and ensure appropriate corrective action is taken.
• Prepare financial information and supporting schedules for year-end accounts and external accountants.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Cash Flow

• Maintain annual budgets and financial forecasts, updating these as required throughout the year.
• Maintain short and medium-term cash-flow forecasts and ensure they remain accurate and current.
• Monitor income, expenditure, working capital and cash requirements across the group.
• Review actual performance against budget and forecast, highlighting material variances.
• Update financial projections to reflect changes in income, expenditure and business activity.
• Support management with financial modelling and scenario planning when required.
• Provide financial analysis to support pricing, investment and commercial decision-making.

Multi-Company & Intercompany Accounting

• Maintain accurate accounting records across multiple legal entities.
• Manage intercompany transactions, journals, balances and reconciliations.
• Ensure corresponding intercompany balances reconcile across group companies.
• Investigate and resolve intercompany discrepancies promptly.
• Ensure income and expenditure are recorded against the appropriate entity and accounting period.
• Maintain appropriate supporting records for intercompany transactions and recharges.
• Ensure consistent accounting treatment and processes are applied across the group.

Transactional Finance

• Oversee purchase and sales ledger activity.
• Manage supplier invoices, payments and account reconciliations.
• Raise and monitor customer invoices.
• Manage credit control and outstanding debtor balances.
• Complete bank and credit-card reconciliations.
• Maintain accurate cashbook records and transaction allocations.
• Reconcile control accounts and investigate discrepancies.
• Prepare supplier payment schedules.
• Maintain accurate customer and supplier records.
• Ensure transactions are correctly coded and allocated to the appropriate group company.

UK Accounting & Compliance

• Manage the day-to-day accounting requirements of the group's UK companies.
• Maintain accurate accounting records and supporting documentation.
• Support UK VAT accounting and prepare the underlying information and reconciliations required for VAT returns.
• Maintain appropriate accounting records to support statutory reporting and corporation tax requirements.
• Work closely with the Group's UK external accountants and professional advisers.
• Provide accurate financial information, reconciliations and supporting schedules within agreed deadlines.
• Respond to accounting queries and ensure agreed adjustments are accurately reflected within the accounting system.
• Maintain an appropriate working knowledge of UK accounting requirements relevant to the role.

Payroll

• Prepare accurate payroll information for submission to the Group's external UK payroll provider.
• Provide information relating to starters, leavers, salary changes, deductions and other payroll adjustments.
• Review payroll reports and identify any discrepancies prior to finalisation.
• Reconcile payroll costs and associated balance-sheet control accounts.
• Ensure payroll costs are correctly recorded and allocated across the relevant group companies.
• Maintain accurate payroll records and supporting financial documentation.
• Liaise with the external payroll provider to investigate and resolve payroll discrepancies.

Financial Controls & Processes

• Maintain established financial controls, policies and procedures.
• Ensure finance processes are consistently followed across group companies.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy and automation within existing finance processes.
• Support the ongoing improvement of accounting systems and management reporting.
• Maintain high standards of financial record keeping and supporting documentation.
• Ensure appropriate financial authorisation and approval processes are followed.

Business & Operational Support

• Work closely with operational teams to reconcile income against internal management information.
• Provide managers with clear and useful financial information.
• Support the Managing Director with financial planning and commercial decision-making.
• Liaise professionally with suppliers, customers, external accountants and other stakeholders.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and reporting when required.
• Support the ongoing maintenance and continuous improvement of financial systems, reporting and processes.

Skills & ExperienceEssential

• Previous experience as a Management Accountant, Company Accountant, Senior Accountant or in a comparable finance role.
• Practical experience supporting the accounting requirements of UK companies.
• Strong experience preparing complete monthly management accounts.
• Excellent understanding of profit and loss, balance sheet and cash-flow reporting.
• Experience completing month-end processes, including journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Experience maintaining budgets, forecasts and cash-flow projections.
• Practical experience managing accounts across multiple companies or legal entities.
• Strong experience of intercompany accounting and reconciliations, including investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Strong experience with financial reconciliations and balance-sheet control accounts.
• Practical experience of purchase ledger, sales ledger, invoicing and credit control.
• Experience preparing and reconciling payroll information.
• Working knowledge of UK VAT and payroll accounting.
• Strong accounting software skills.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with financial data.
• Excellent attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Ability to work independently, manage priorities and meet deadlines.
• Confidence communicating financial information to senior management and non-finance colleagues.
• Ability to work effectively with external accountants and professional advisers.

Desirable

• ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CA or equivalent accounting qualification or part-qualification.
• Strong working knowledge of Xero.
• Experience supporting an international group.
• Experience improving financial controls and accounting processes.

About You

You will be an organised, commercially aware and hands-on finance professional who takes ownership of your work.

You will be comfortable taking responsibility for the quality and accuracy of financial information across multiple businesses and understand the importance of strong month-end processes, reconciliations and financial controls.

You will enjoy understanding how a business operates rather than simply producing financial reports. You will be confident investigating discrepancies, maintaining established processes and identifying sensible improvements where appropriate.

You should be equally comfortable reviewing a set of management accounts, maintaining a cash-flow forecast, resolving an intercompany difference or completing a detailed reconciliation.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary of AED 6,000–10,000 per month, dependent on experience and qualifications.
• Full-time, permanent position.
• Opportunity to work within a growing international group.
• A varied role with significant ownership and responsibility.
• Direct interaction with the Director's and senior management team.
• Opportunity to work across UK and UAE business operations.
• Opportunity to contribute to the ongoing improvement of financial reporting and processes.
• Professional and collaborative working environment.

Recruitment Process

Our selection process will include an initial application review, followed by interviews for shortlisted candidates.

Candidates progressing through the selection process will also be required to complete a practical accounting and cash-flow exercise designed to assess the skills required for the role.

Pay: AED6,000.00 - AED10,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• How many years' experience do you have preparing full monthly management accounts, including P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow reporting?
• Please briefly describe your practical experience supporting the accounting requirements of UK companies.
• How many years' experience do you have managing accounts across multiple companies or legal entities?
• Please describe your experience of intercompany accounting and reconciliations.
• Which accounting systems have you used, and what level of experience do you have with Xero?
• What experience do you have maintaining budgets, forecasts and cash-flow reporting?
• What experience do you have preparing payroll information for an external payroll provider and reconciling payroll control accounts?
• What experience do you have with UK VAT accounting?
• What professional accounting qualifications do you hold or currently study towards?
• This position combines management accounting with hands-on responsibilities such as reconciliations, invoicing and credit control. What experience do you have working in this type of role?
• What is your expected monthly salary in AED?
• Are you currently based in the UAE?

Work Location: Remote