Management Accountant

Looking for a part-time, 6-9 month contact where you can genuinely make your mark? This is your chance to take ownership, clean up the accounts, and help modernise the finance function within a Manufacturing Business renowned for its heritage and global reputation. As Management Accountant, you’ll be hands-on, working across five companies, improving reconciliations and month-end, and helping drive a major systems improvement project. No overtime, flexible hours, and a family-friendly team mean you’ll enjoy excellent work-life balance while having a real impact. If you thrive on getting into the detail and want to help shape a modern, digital finance setup, this is the role for you.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Producing management accounts across five companies, including intercompany reconciliations
• Weekly and daily ledger cleansing, plus balance sheet reconciliations
• Managing accruals, prepayments, and fixed assets across the group
• Supporting cash-flow reporting and providing sales ledger analysis
• Investigating variances and unusual transactions, digging into large volumes of data
• Reviewing work in progress/project accounting and improving related processes
• Helping bring month-end closer to a day-5 close
• Supporting ongoing finance and system modernisation
• Working closely with the team to improve processes and day-to-day accounts
• Potentially supporting wider project work as required

What you will need:

• Previous experience in a similar role, such as Management Accountant, Finance Analyst, or Financial Accountant
• Strong Excel skills, including VLOOKUPs, PivotTables, and handling large datasets
• Solid understanding of debits and credits
• Logical, analytical, and comfortable investigating discrepancies
• System/process orientated, able to help with modernisation
• Trustworthy, handling large amounts of financial data and confidential information
• QBE is ideal; qualification is less important than hands-on experience across a broad range of accounting areas
• Calm, level-headed, outgoing, and able to fit into the team
• Confident enough to challenge and investigate issues, resilient, and able to take feedback
• Comfortable with variety and consistent weekly responsibilities

What you will get:

• Excellent work-life balance, with no overtime expected
• Flexible approach to working hours
• Family-friendly and understanding management
• Strong team dynamic
• Opportunity to have a genuine impact on the finance function
• Chance to help modernise systems and processes
• Interesting, specialist manufacturing business with a strong heritage and global reputation