Management Accountant
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Job Location:
West Bromwich - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
Management Accountant - Manufacturing
Location: West Bromwich Birmingham (onsite)
Salary: Up to 50000 per annum benefits
Job Type: Full-time Permanent
An established and growing manufacturing business is seeking a hands-on commercially minded Management Accountant to join its team. This is a critical role supporting operational performance through high-quality financial reporting robust costing insight and close collaboration with engineering and production teams.
This position suits someone who thrives in a fast-paced SME environment enjoys getting under the skin of manufacturing processes and can translate operational activity into accurate financial performance.
The Role
As Management Accountant you will play a key part in strengthening financial control and driving operational efficiency. Youll work closely with engineering production and commercial colleagues to ensure costs margins and WIP are accurately understood and actively managed.
Key responsibilities include:
Management Accounting & Reporting
- Produce accurate monthly management accounts with insightful variance analysis.
- Build and maintain financial dashboards KPIs and performance reporting.
- Support annual budgets rolling forecasts and financial planning.
Costing Engineering Support & Operational Finance
- Lead product costing activities working with engineering to understand labour materials routings and machine costs.
- Monitor manufacturing variances scrap labour utilisation and overhead recovery.
- Provide real-time costing insight to support pricing margin optimisation and commercial decisions.
- Work with engineers and production managers to challenge assumptions and improve cost accuracy.
WIP Inventory & Control
- Own WIP reporting ensuring accuracy of job costing stock movements and production transactions.
- Maintain strong controls around inventory valuation cycle counts and stock integrity.
- Support ERP accuracy including BOM setup routing data and operational workflows.
Financial Control & Continuous Improvement
- Help drive improvements in financial systems automation and reporting.
- Support cashflow forecasting and working capital management.
- Contribute to CAPEX appraisals investment analysis and operational improvement projects.
- Assist with yearend processes audit requirements and statutory compliance.
About You
You will be a proactive finance professional with genuine interest in how products are made and how operations impact the numbers.
Essential:
- Part-qualified finalist or qualified CIMA/ACCA (or equivalent).
- Strong experience in manufacturing management accounting.
- Solid understanding of product costing WIP accounting and margin analysis.
- Confident analysing financial and operational data and communicating findings clearly.
- Advanced Excel skills and competence working with ERP systems.
Desirable:
- Experience supporting engineering teams with cost models and operational data.
- Background in SMEs or complex fastpaced manufacturing environments.
- Exposure to system improvements automation or ERP optimisation projects
Whats on Offer
- A key role within a supportive highly engaged leadership team.
- Opportunity to influence operational performance and shape finance processes.
- A varied hands-on position with genuine visibility across the whole business.
- Competitive salary plus benefits aligned to experience.
Next Steps
This role is being managed exclusively by Seymour John. For a confidential conversation or to express interest please contact Simon Lowe on or email .
All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence.
Key Skills
- Accounting Software
- Account Analysis
- QuickBooks
- Accounting
- IFRS
- Asset Management
- Business Management
- Cash Management
- Sage
- Microsoft Excel
- E-Commerce
- Systems Analysis
