Management Accountant (Remuneration)

At Rathbones, we help people invest their money well, so they can live well. That means more than financial returns – it’s about helping people feel confident in their decisions and supported in their future. We don’t just manage money, we guide people through life’s big moments, helping them stay on track and focus on what matters most.

We’re proud to be one of the UK’s leading wealth managers, with £113.6bn in assets under management (as of March 2026) and 20+ offices across the UK and Channel Islands. We’re a FTSE 250 company with national reach and a local feel – and we’re growing.

Role Title:  Management Accountant  

Division: Finance

Location: Liverpool or Leeds

Contract: FTC

Working pattern: Hybrid

About the Role

Play a key role in delivering insightful and timely management information across the Group’s remuneration and incentive schemes, including actuals, budgets, and forecasts. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to produce Investment Management and Financial Planning incentive reporting, helping to drive informed decision-making and ensuring rewarding, performance-driven outcomes across the business

What you’ll be responsible for

• Support the team in their duties; to enable Finance to meet its deliverables and objectives.
• Be a key person in the production, review and distribution costs relating to all group remuneration schemes.
• Be a key person in the production, review and distribution costs relating to all group share-based payment schemes.
• Understand and be able to clearly articulate key variances relating to remuneration and SBP at both a group and entity level.
• Participate in the preparation of forecasts/actuals/budgets relating to all group remuneration schemes.
• Contribute to maintaining an effective control environment around IM team structures within the Finance environment.
• Partner with department heads, reward team, payroll, cosec, IM's and distribution team on matters relevant to remuneration.
• Involvement in the production, review and distribution of IM P&L's, new business scheme statements and distribution team commission statements.
• Partner with IM's on queries relating to IM P&L's new business scheme statements and distribution team commission statements.
• Collaborate with Finance colleagues to deliver timely and accurate Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Identify ineffective / inefficient processes and undertake enhancements as part of continuous improvement activities.
• Have input into the group and entity statutory accounts and audit process.
• To assist in ad hoc projects as required.
  

About you

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA
• 5 years + PQE
• Qualified by experience
• Able to communicate information, ideas, or issues effectively and clearly through the most appropriate channel within the team and to key stakeholders.
• Able to organise and prioritise own workload effectively, working to a high degree of autonomy.
• Confident challenging processes and escalating issues.
• Effective problem solver, generating practical solutions to often complex issues.
• An eye for detail, able to identify, investigate and clearly explain variance.
• Self-motivated with high energy and enthusiasm
• Builds effective relationships with stakeholders across the firm.
• Strong collaboration skills - proactively seeks to share information and ideas.
• Comfortable working across the MS Office suite of applications.
• Keeps up to date with developments in the industry, including emerging risks and regulation.
• Able to consolidate and present information and analysis in an effective, digestible, and timely manner.

Our offer to you

We want everyone at Rathbones to fulfil their potential, in an environment where you are proud to work and feel like you belong.

We offer a comprehensive remuneration package, which we review regularly, and benefits include:

• A company pension - 9% non-contributory or 10% if you contribute 5%
• Private medical insurance – Individual on joining, family after 1 year’s service
• Life assurance  - 8 x salary
• Income protection – 75 % salary
• Company share scheme
• Discretionary bonus
• Flexible holidays – purchase up to 5 additional days
• Green Car Scheme
• Family friendly policies – enhanced family leave for parents & carers
• Study support – study days and funding for courses and qualifications
• Season travel ticket loans
• Volunteering days
• Gym discounts
• Other voluntary benefits you can choose to suit you 

Our employees can choose to take part in various social groups and communities to support their wellbeing, growth, development and sense of community. These include:

• Sports & Social Committees, such as cricket, football, netball, running, yoga, quiz nights, charity bake sales and much more.
• Inclusion Networks that help us drive change within the organisation such as Gender Balance, Multicultural, Abilities Count, Pride, Social Mobility, Generations, Menopause Matters@Rathbones’ and Armed Forces. 
• The NextGen IM Network, which brings together a community of trainees from across the UK, who are all at the early stages of their careers and offers development opportunities, exposure across the business as well as peer support and connection.

Life at Rathbones

We aim to become an employer of choice for the wealth management sector, to achieve this we are working hard to build a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace that motivates, develops and embraces the strengths of all our colleagues. Being part of Rathbones means you will join a team of passionate professionals in a successful culture that cares for its people. At Rathbones, we provide meaningful work, opportunities, and a voice to all.

We are committed to building a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome individuals who share our values.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer (level 2) under the UK Government scheme. This means we’ve signed up to a set of commitments around how we recruit, retain and develop people with disabilities. Find out more about the Government Scheme online, click here. If you require adjustments to apply for a role at Rathbones, please contact us via recruit@rathbones.com to let us know what adjustments you may need.

Mission

We believe in playing the long game. That means building consistent results, earning trust and doing the right thing — for our clients, our colleagues and the communities we’re part of.

Our values shape how we work:
- We aim high
- We get it done
- We show we care
- We do the right thing

These aren’t just words on a wall. They guide how we treat each other, how we make decisions and how we build relationships that last.

We will close this advert once we have received enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure you don’t miss out.