You love numbers. Maybe you also love dancing, reading, playing sport, or singing karaoke (insert your hobby of choice). The point is, you’re well-rounded and do more than excel at maths.
Career options in management accounting are varied, too — from small, family-owned businesses to international organisations with offices in dozens of countries.
Across communities, towns, cities, and the world, there are jobs for management accountants. And the jobs don’t just entail sitting in a quiet office, reviewing spreadsheets.
Management accounting careers reach far and wide
CGMA® designation holders — some of whom achieved the designation through the CGMA Finance Leadership Program — thrive in business and industry. Many types of businesses and industries. Successful companies that present many acronyms.
You may have heard of ‘the Big Four’ in accounting: Ernst & Young, Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdele, PricewaterhouseCoopers — commonly known as EY, KPMG, PwC — and Deloitte who provide professional services and consulting.
Working for ‘the Big Four’ could be career focus for you.
Other acronyms you likely know — BBC and FT — focus on media and publishing. Yep! Media and publishing need management accountants, too.
And the list goes on. Along with the British Broadcasting Corporation and Financial Times, other big names — Google, Sky and Virgin Media — need management accountants.
You could also consider working directly in financial services for companies like Barclays, Citigroup and Credit Suisse.
Or maybe you’d like to work at companies that focus on engineering, such as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), or car manufacturing, like Rolls-Royce or Ford. If working around modes of transportation is your speed, you could also consider pursuing a job working in the finance function at British Airways or Transport for London.
Envision your dream career in the private or public sector
Management accountants are needed in government and other entities within the public sector that serve the community and focus on making the world a better place.
You may want to consider working for a not-for-profit with colleagues who share your passion for, as examples, protecting the environment, feeding the hungry or making public transportation safe and accessible for all.
And you have other options. The Department for Work and Pensions, National Health Service and the Road Accident Fund are a few ideas, but they aren’t the only ones who need management accountants.
