Social Element
Senior Management Accountant
🇬🇧Leeds, England, United KingdomRemote available2 months ago
SeniorFull TimeEN
🌎 Where: 100% Remote - from the United Kingdom
🤝 Type: Part-time, temporary
⏰ Work Schedule: 3 days a week for an initial 3 to 6 month contract, with flexibility to work extra days around month-end as needed.
Founded 23 years ago, we’re a leading global full-service social media agency on a mission to Make Social Better for everyone.
As we enter our next exciting chapter, Social Element has become part of the MarketFully Group; a dynamic collective of digital marketing companies blending cutting-edge technology and AI with human creativity and strategic insight to build standout brands online.
With our recent acquisition, 2025 marked a period of positive transformation. As we integrate into this larger group, our finance team is at the forefront of change, driving progress and shaping our future direction. We’re proud of our collaborative, flexible, and supportive “can do” culture.
Now, we’re looking for an exceptional Senior Management Accountant to join us, on a part-time basis, and play a key role in this pivotal journey.
As a Senior Management Accountant, you’ll deliver accurate financial information to inform strategic decisions across both businesses, playing a vital role as we enter this new phase. We’re seeking an exceptional accountant who can step in, take real ownership, and make an immediate positive impact while working closely with our Finance Director. You’ll hit the ground running, ensuring a smooth month-end close, supporting the business through change, and directly shaping the future of our agency.
As a Senior Management Accountant you will:
Prepare, review, and deliver monthly management accounts (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow), ensuring timely completion and ownership of the management accounts function.
Drive month-end efficiency: Hands-on responsibility for the month-end close, reporting, and variance analysis; continually work to bring forward close dates by streamlining processes.
Analyse financial performance: Provide insightful variance analysis against budgets and forecasts; monitor expenditure, investigate discrepancies, and report on key findings.
Lead budgeting and forecasting: Oversee the annual budgeting process, support departmental budget holders, and develop rolling forecasts and financial projections.
Maintain strong financial controls and compliance: Ensure robust financial controls and adherence to UK GAAP, accounting standards, company policies, and regulatory deadlines.
Mentor and support other finance team members: Review and support work of junior colleagues (mainly AP, AR, and revenue), providing training, guidance, and feedback to ensure accuracy and development.
Assist with year-end accounts: Support the preparation of year-end accounts and liaise with external auditors as required.
Deliver process improvements: Proactively identify and implement opportunities for automation and improved efficiency, especially as the business continues to integrate post-acquisition.
Support wider business needs: Provide ad hoc financial analysis, scenario planning, and actionable insights to the Finance Director and other internal stakeholders.
Proven Finance Professional: Qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or finalist, with strong, recent UK management accounting experience.
Self-starter: You thrive on autonomy, quickly grasp new systems and business models, and can hit the ground running in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment.
Strong communicator: You’re comfortable collaborating with colleagues at all levels across regions, able to explain finance to non-finance, and happy to coach others.
Excel whizz: Confident manipulating data and building reports/analysis.
Process-orientated: You spot inefficiencies and love to make things better.
Team player: Approachable, supportive, and thrive working closely with others while leading by example.
Sense of urgency: Able to deliver results and juggle multiple priorities to tight deadlines.
Agency, media or professional services experience is helpful, but we’re open to the industry for the right skillset.
Paprika or comparable finance systems experience an advantage, not essential.
Adaptable: This is a business (and finance team) going through change - agility, problem-solving and a positive attitude are essential.
At Social Element, we operate a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy for some positions. For this position, we ask that you use your own device and it matches the following requirements:
Operating system - Windows 11 / MAC OS X version 14 (Sonoma) or higher with Admin credentials.
At least 8GB RAM (16GB recommended)
A secure, home-based broadband Internet connection with a minimum speed of 20 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload (50 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload are recommended).
40 GB available HDD (SSD recommended)
A Webcam and headset
Android or iOS device for 2FA
Note:
Chromebook, Linux and Cloud VMs are not supported. If you want to run a local VM (virtual machine), you need to send us your computer specs and explain how you intend to do this.
Use of a touchscreen monitor without a keyboard and a mouse isn't allowed.
Please note: These benefits are for UK employees only and will be pro-rated.
🏠 Remote/Flexible working (occasional travel)
🏖️ 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
🎂 Birthday off
✨ Annual Occasion Day off for an important event (eg moving house, getting married)
❤️ 1 Volunteer day off
👐 3 Wellbeing days off
👓 Eye care: Contributions towards eye tests and glasses
🏥 Enhanced sick pay: 4 weeks full pay, 4 weeks half pay
👪 Enhanced family friendly policies
🤗 Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing support
🛍️ Access to our discounts website
The hiring process for this position will be made up of the following stages:
🤝 Initial Call with one of Talent Team.
✨Skills + Experience Interview with the Finance Director
🧑🤝🧑 Final Interview with Finance Director and another member of the wider team
At Social Element, we pride ourselves on a hiring process that is fair, transparent, and deeply focused on respecting the unique skills and experiences each candidate brings. We warmly welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, especially from those who have been historically under-represented groups.
We value diverse thinkers and encourage those who have felt overlooked or unsure due to the confidence gap or imposter syndrome to apply — your unique talents and viewpoints are exactly what we might need.
We are committed to a supportive and inclusive application process. If there are accommodations or adjustments you need at any stage of the recruitment, please let us know in the application. We aim to ensure you feel fully supported throughout.
If all this sounds like you, simply upload your CV/resume and complete the application form. While a cover letter is optional, we welcome any other way for you to share what draws you and motivates you about this role and the agency.
We encourage candidates to express their interest and motivation in the format that best showcases their talents.
***If you would prefer to submit your application in a different format, please feel free to get in touch with us at talent_tse@thesocialelement.agency and we will be happy to assist you in any way we can. We will be unable to process applications via this inbox.
We are excited to receive your application! ❤️
