Overview

The Management Accountant role at Bulletproof (part of the Cyber Division within GRC) offers a unique opportunity to join a newly formed finance team at a critical point. Following several acquisitions, the Cyber Division is on an accelerated growth path, and this role is central to shaping the financial processes and reporting standards that will support that journey. Reporting directly to the Cyber Divisional Finance Director, the Management Accountant will play an integral role in providing financial insights, budget analysis, and management reporting to support strategic decision-making across the Cyber Division.

Responsibilities

As part of a newly formed finance team, the Management Accountant will work closely with teams across Bulletproof and its sister company, Pentest People, another recent GRC acquisition within the Cyber Division. Collaboration and cross-functional engagement will be essential in this role, ensuring that finance functions are aligned to support both companies' objectives and that a unified financial strategy is developed. This is a hands-on, impactful role where the successful candidate will be key to driving efficiencies, managing reporting processes, and supporting the finance director in the Cyber Division's financial planning and analysis activities.

Responsibilities

General Ledger

• To ensure that day-to-day maintenance of the General Ledger is carried out to established timetables and to enable management and financial reporting deadlines to be hit
• Reviewing and controlling bank reconciliation process in Xero.

• Reconcile other balance sheet control accounts monthly, quarterly or annually as appropriate. Major areas include sales ledger control, purchase ledger control, accrued and deferred trading income/costs, inter-company accounts and tax/salary control.
• Processing, reconciling and controlling fixed asset ledger and associated entries.
• Preparation of complex revenue recognition routines.

Budgeting & Forecasting

• To help prepare and maintain budgets, including preparation of high-quality analysis and meaningful comparisons to budget, to support the Finance Director as required to established timetables
• Developing a monthly rolling forecast with variance analysis to budget to provide insight to stakeholders
• Weekly cashflow forecasting

Group Reporting

• Preparing (and reviewing where relevant) of all reporting issued to the business, ensuring that the reporting of results meets stakeholder needs.
• Produce detailed analysis of group overheads on a monthly basis and support the Finance Director with controlling budgets and understanding trends
• Undertaking business partnering-like activity through extending and developing reporting and KPIs for business activity through working with the Finance Director to understand requirements.

Payroll

• Prepare and review the monthly payroll reports before and after processing by the external payroll provider.

Tax, Statutory reporting and external Audit

• Acting as a key contact in the statutory audit process, working closely with the wider team as required
• Ensuring that all compliance returns (e.g. VAT, P11D etc) and any other submissions are accurately completed and filled on time.

• Managing the external reporting requirements for the US subsidiary company

Process & Controls

• Developing and maintaining consistent accounting processes and controls, whilst continually looking for efficiencies and improvements.

Systems

• Assisting the Cyber FD to prepare the relevant document required for new system implementations

CANDIDATE EXPECTATIONS

The right candidate will have:

Formal Qualifications

• Degree educated
• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) or an individual in the latter stages of qualification with a significant level of experience.

Knowledge and experience required

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role, ideally within companies in transition, undergoing growth and business transformation / integration.
• Ability to liaise with people at all levels of seniority.
• Experience of working within a group ownership structure, managing the reporting of monthly financial information in a predefined format and calendar
• Experience leading a finance department through an ERP migration is an advantage
• SaaS experience is an advantage
• Advanced excel skills

Skills and Personal Attributes

• Ability to liaise with people at all levels of seniority.
• Team player with relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent IT skills, expert in Excel and competent across the full suite of Microsoft Office products. Knowledge of Xero, MS Dynamics
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving aptitude, ability to combine strategic thinking with a hands on approach
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to engage non-Finance colleagues and drive change.

Please note that as part of the recruitment process a criminal records check will be carried out by an authorised third party.

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual holiday
• An additional day’s annual holiday for your birthday
• Private medical insurance (individual)
• Subsidised gym membership
• Company perks platform

About Us

The GRC Group is a leading provider of Governance, Risk and Compliance software and consultancy services based in the UK, but with a growing international presence. We help businesses with regulatory information; eLearning; consulting and certification services to assure health & safety, ISO standards; manage cyber and information risks; and are leading providers of employment law and people-focussed governance solutions.

The Cyber & Information Risk Division consists of two companies Bulletproof Cyber and Pentest People but is looking to expand through further acquisitions internationally.

Bulletproof

Bulletproof and PTP’s innovative cyber security & compliance services are the best way to stay ahead of the hackers, manage risk, and protect your critical business data. Our core belief is driving innovation through our range of services to deliver true value. We operate in the UK market as Bulletproof and Pentest People, and internationally via our sister brand Target Defense.

Our services are split across three core areas:

• Cyber Security
• Data Protection
• Information Security