Management Accountant
Management Accountants are futurists who drive business strategy to generate and preserve value.
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- What's it like to be a Management Accountant?
- How to become a Management Accountant
- Latest Management Accountant jobs
- Top skills and experience for Management Accountants
- Is Management Accountant the right role for you?
- Management Accountant role reviews
What's it like to be a Management Accountant?
Management Accountants are responsible for the sourcing, data analysis, communication and use of financial and non-financial information to make decisions that will affect the future of an organisation.
Tasks and duties
- Collating information such as revenue, cash flow and outstanding debts.
- Using financial and non-financial data to formulate a complete picture of how the business is going.
- Advising stakeholders on the financial implications of significant decisions, business strategy and monitoring risk.
How to become a Management Accountant
A bachelor's degree in the field of accounting is the most common requirement to work as an accountant, and a bachelor-level degree is required to be eligible for entry into any of the three professional accounting bodies that regulate and accredit the accounting industry in Australia.
- Complete a qualification in the field of accounting. Courses such as a Bachelor of Accounting or a Bachelor of Commerce are generally three-year courses, open to anyone over 17 years who has completed year 12 with an appropriate Universities Admission Index.
- Complete a CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) Certificate in Business Accounting. If you have a relevant degree like accounting or business, you may be entitled to exemptions from some CIMA exams, which will allow you to progress onto the professional qualification sooner.
Complete the CIMA Professional Qualification. The length of time this takes will depend on previous study and exemptions, however if you hold a masters or MBA in accounting, you'll just need to pass the CIMA gateway exam, which is a three-hour computer-based case study exam.
Once you have completed the CIMA Professional Qualification, you will be awarded the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation.
- There are numerous opportunities for management accounts; consider becoming a finance director, chief executive, management consultant or running your own business.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Management Accountant employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Accounting
Forecasting
Budgeting
Financial Reporting
Management Reporting
Certified Public / Practising Accountant Qualification
Variance Analysis
Financial Analysis
Microsoft Excel
Financial Performance
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Latest Management Accountant reviews
May 2025
Fantastic step up from Financial Accounting
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Commerce
ExperienceLess than a year
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationAccounting
The good thingsIf you're tired of reporting the "what" and want to dive into the "why" and "when" of accounting, this is a great way of doing so. It's easy to get bored with the numbers as a Financial Accountant, bu...
The challengesReporting deadlines often means the first week or two of the month will have late nights and overtime. Best to get prepared for during the quiet periods of the month, and develop whatever analysis or ...
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May 2025
Fantastic step up from Financial Accounting
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Commerce
ExperienceLess than a year
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationAccounting
The good thingsIf you're tired of reporting the "what" and want to dive into the "why" and "when" of accounting, this is a great way of doing so. It's easy to get bored with the numbers as a Financial Accountant, bu...
The challengesReporting deadlines often means the first week or two of the month will have late nights and overtime. Best to get prepared for during the quiet periods of the month, and develop whatever analysis or ...
Read more
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