Management Accountant

Management Accountant | London | Precious Metals Trading

Are you a qualified accountant who enjoys improving how things work, turning data into insight, and using automation to make finance processes smarter?

We are looking for a Management Accountant to join our London-based precious metals trading office. This is a hands-on, value-adding finance role where you will support daily trading profit and loss reporting, month-end management accounts, forecasting, statutory reporting, treasury activity, and business partnering across a global trading environment.

You will work closely with the Finance Manager and international stakeholders, helping to strengthen reporting, improve data quality, simplify processes, and identify opportunities for automation and digitalisation.

What makes this role interesting:

• Exposure to a fast-moving precious and base metals trading environment.
• A broad role covering trading P&L, management reporting, forecasting, statutory reporting, treasury, and business partnering.
• The chance to add value beyond the numbers by improving reporting, controls, workflows, and insight.
• Real opportunity to support automation, digitalisation, and better ways of working.
• Collaboration with finance, commercial, cash management and global teams across multiple regions.

We are looking for someone who:

• Is ACCA, ACA, CIMA qualified, or equivalent
• Has experience in finance, accounting, controlling, or planning
• Understands IFRS and local GAAP reporting requirements
• Has strong Excel and analytical skills, with excellent attention to detail
• Enjoys solving problems, improving processes, and working with digital tools
• Can partner confidently with stakeholders and explain financial information clearly.

Our benefits:

• Comprehensive private healthcare coverage
• BASF share scheme
• Company and individual performance based annual bonus 
• Award winning pension scheme with employer contributions
• Income protection due to critical illness
• Employee Assistance programme incuding emotional, physcial and financial wellbeing support
• Regular social events

If you are a technically strong accountant who wants to be close to the business, make a visible impact, and help shape smarter finance processes in a specialist global trading environment, we would love to hear from you.