Job Advert Job Title: Management Accountant Reporting To: Financial Controller Hours of Work: 37.5 hours, Monday - Friday Salary: £ Market Rate Location: BSW Timber Solutions, Stoke Your Role We are looking for a proactive and analytical Management Accountant to support the financial performance of our Merchant business stream within BSW Timber Solutions Ltd. This role is responsible for delivering accurate financial reporting, overseeing product and machine costings, supporting month-end processes, and ensuring key finance reports are produced on time. Working closely with operational teams, you will play an important part in driving financial accuracy, improving systems, and supporting business performance. Duties and Responsibilities * Prepare monthly Business Unit financial reports, providing meaningful analysis and commentary on performance variances. * Lead overhead and cost analysis, including headcount reconciliation and overtime reporting. * Maintain weekly profit forecasts and produce key operational reports such as sales, stock, and daily performance reporting. * Support month-end close activities, including accruals, prepayments, reconciliations, and variance analysis. * Manage stock costing processes, ensuring standard costs, machine costing, and overhead recoveries are accurate. * Oversee customer rebate accounting, ensuring liabilities and accruals are recorded correctly. * Monitor working capital, maintaining stock integrity, and supporting inventory controls. * Identify opportunities to improve finance processes and maximise the use of SAP. * Assist with budgeting, forecasting, statutory reporting, and additional financial analysis as required. Skills, Knowledge & Experience * CIMA part-qualified (or equivalent). * Experience in a manufacturing or product-based environment is desirable. * Strong understanding of management accounting, financial reporting, and costing processes. * Experience using SAP or similar ERP systems. * Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to detail. * Confident communicator with the ability to work effectively across departments. * Proactive, adaptable, and able to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. * A collaborative team player with a practical, hands-on approach. Who we are: BSW Group is the largest timber and forestry business in the UK, with operating divisions spanning the whole supply chain, from tree nurseries and woodland management to sawmilling and pallets. We market 35 million saplings annually through the country’s leading commercial tree nursery, have planted a billion trees through Tilhill Forestry, supply sustainable timber products to an array of industries as BSW Timber, and manufacture millions of pallets a year as Scott Pallets. We work to keep industry moving and aim to be the most technically advanced timber business in the country. BSW operates as a collection of experts – an interconnected circle, where everyone and everything works together, allowing the business to constantly innovate as our people thrive. With an ethos to use everything and waste nothing, we leverage technology and cutting-edge practices to supply the diverse demands of the UK, helping to build sustainable worlds. What you will receive in return: * Career development in a family run business * Open to discussions on supporting a formal qualification * Contributory Pension Scheme * My Pay Rewards – discounts on vouchers * Refer a friend scheme * Cycle to work scheme Think you have what it takes? If so, we want to hear from you.