Management Accountant
As a Management Accountant, you'll take ownership of the full management accounts process for newly acquired entities, ensuring smooth onboarding and high-quality reporting.
Management Accountant | Stockport | High-Growth PE-Backed Business
Location: Stockport – Newly Refurbished HQ
Function: Group Finance | Reports to: Financial Controller
Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits + Career-Defining Growth
🚀 Ready to spearhead your finance career with one of the UK’s fastest-growing private equity-backed businesses?
Join OCU Group, a powerhouse in infrastructure engineering, at the heart of a high-performing shared services team based in Stockport. With access to some of the best finance talent in the UK and backed by Triton Partners (a leading European private equity firm), this is the perfect platform for ambitious finance professionals looking to turbocharge their development.
Why This Role?
- Huge Growth Trajectory: OCU is on a mission to grow from £800m to £3bn+ in revenue over the next 3–5 years.
- Career-Defining Opportunity: Be a key player in post-acquisition integration and strategic reporting across a dynamic, expanding portfolio.
- Work With the Best: Join a highly experienced finance team and collaborate with leaders across the group.
- First-Class Environment: Newly refurbished, modern Stockport HQ with a dynamic, collaborative culture.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Management Accountant, you'll take ownership of the full management accounts process for newly acquired entities, ensuring smooth onboarding and high-quality reporting.
- Prepare end-to-end monthly management accounts and lead board-level reporting
- Deliver deep financial insight and variance analysis
- Own balance sheet reconciliations and cash forecasting
- Enhance and embed financial controls and processes
- Lead audits and support statutory account production
- Work closely with operational teams to drive reporting accuracy and performance
- Help embed Microsoft Dynamics 365 across new acquisitions
What We’re Looking For
- Part-qualified / fully qualified / QBE (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
- Solid experience producing full sets of management accounts
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Strong financial systems understanding (Dynamics 365 a plus!)
- Excellent communicator – able to work cross-functionally and influence at all levels
- Curious, ambitious, and ready to be part of something big
About OCU Group
OCU is a market leader in engineering services across the utilities and energy transition space, partnering with the UK’s biggest power, water, and telecoms clients. We’ve grown at 17% annually over the last decade and with Triton’s backing, we’re now scaling even faster via organic growth and strategic acquisitions (13 acquired already!).
We don’t just want you to join us – we want you to grow with us.
Apply now to be part of one of the North West’s most exciting finance growth stories.
Stockport
Our People, our Culture, our Values
As a business, we pride ourselves on operating a ‘People First’ culture, striving to constantly deliver on our 5 core company values.
1. We Care about Safety - It is our goal for everyone working on our behalf to go home healthy and safe at the end of each and every day.
2. We lead with Integrity - Integrity is central to everything we do. Without it, we wouldn’t have the relationships with our clients, nor would we have built an enviable reputation within the industry.
3. We strive to be Better everyday - We take pride in everything we do. This involves a meticulous approach to our work, endeavouring to make each day better than the last.
4. We make a Positive Impact - We want to make the places we work in better; leaving a lasting infrastructure and social legacy. We believe in proactivity to maximise impact.
5. We Deliver to Grow - The successful delivery of frameworks and contracts feeds our ability to grow strategically and strengthen OCU to expand the business and capabilities even further.
About OCU
Established in 1994, OCU Group is one of the fastest growing utility engineering contractors in the UK, with a long successful track record in delivering customer-focused civil engineering solutions.
Working directly with many of the country’s leading blue-chip power, water, telecoms and rail clients, we are looking for the very best talent to join our growing team.
We pride ourselves on empowering our employees and offering opportunities for them to take control of their own personal development and career progression in a supportive environment.
We believe that being successful is a choice.
We choose to be successful.
We are OCU, ‘One Company United’.
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