London, GB, EC2N 4AY
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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.
