Assistant Management Accountant / Management Accountant
📍 West Midlands | 🏭 Site-Based | 📈 Step-Up Opportunity
Are you an Assistant Management Accountant or Management Accountant in manufacturing looking for your next step?
This is an opportunity to take ownership at site level while being supported by a Group Financial Controller - ideal for someone ready to broaden their remit and gain exposure to systems transformation and commercial finance.
We're supporting a West Midlands-based manufacturing site within an international packaging group. The business is strengthening financial control while preparing for a major ERP and systems implementation - and they're looking for someone ambitious who wants to grow with it.
The Opportunity
This role offers progression into a more senior Finance Manager-level remit over time.
You will gain exposure to:
Financial Management & Reporting
1. Producing monthly management accounts
2. Supporting month-end journals, accruals and prepayments
3. Preparing trial balances for Group reporting
4. Balance sheet reconciliations including fixed assets
5. Supporting budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
Systems & Process Development
6. Supporting implementation of new business and finance systems (including Sage 200)
7. Assisting with mapping product and transactional data
8. Reviewing BOMs and costing structures
9. Supporting data migration and process alignment
10. Improving finance processes within a manufacturing environment
Commercial Exposure
11. Partnering with operational teams
12. Understanding production flows and cost drivers
13. Supporting cost allocation across manufacturing processes
14. Strengthening PO and receipting controls
What We're Looking For
Essential
15. Part-qualified ACCA/CIMA or strong QBE background
16. Experience within a manufacturing or production environment
17. Exposure to BOM and costing
18. Experience supporting management accounts and month-end
19. Comfortable working with legacy systems
20. Intermediate Excel skills
Desirable
21. Exposure to ERP/system implementation
22. Sage 200 knowledge
23. Ambition to progress into a Finance Manager role
Why This Role Stands Out
24. Clear development path into Finance Manager
25. Hands-on ERP transformation exposure
26. International group backing with local site visibility
27. Broad operational exposure beyond pure reporting
28. Opportunity to grow with the business