Your newpany
Haysis delighted to be working exclusively with CR Smith on the recruitment of a Management Accountant to join their Finance Team. CR Smith operates within a fast‑paced manufacturing environment, producing a range of high‑volume, engineered products. With a strong operational footprint and a focus on continuous improvement, the business places real value on accurate financial insight to support decision‑making across production,mercial and operational teams. Finance plays a critical role in driving performance, cost control and strategic oues.
Your new role
As a Management Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in supporting financial performance across a busy manufacturing operation. Reporting to the Head of Finance, this position blends hands‑on management accounting with operational partnering, cost analysis and systems improvement.
You will support the production of monthly management accounts, including P&L reporting, balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis, while also delivering weekly flash reports focused on production efficiency, labour utilisation and material variances. A key part of the role involves manufacturing costing, including maintaining and reviewing standard costs, analysing variances between standard and actuals, and working closely with production teams to understand cost drivers, material usage, wastage and labour productivity.
The role also contributes to budgeting and forecasting, supporting annual budgets, rolling forecasts and scenario modelling relating to pricing changes, raw material inflation and operational adjustments. You will operate as a true business partner to operations, supply chain andmercial teams, providing clear, insightful analysis to support continuous improvement initiatives.
Alongside this, you will support inventory management, internal controls, audit preparation and year‑end processes, while also driving system and process improvements, including ERP optimisation, automation of reporting and finance transformation initiatives.
What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this role, you will be a fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent) with experience in a manufacturing environment. You will bring strong costing and variance analysis skills, alongside advanced Excel capability and confidence in financial modelling and data analysis.
You will be comfortablemunicating financial information to non‑finance stakeholders and working collaboratively across operational teams in a fast‑moving, production‑driven setting. A proactive, analytical and detail‑driven mindset is essential, with the confidence to challenge, influence and drive improvement.
Experience within manufacturing sectors such as building products, glass, joinery or engineering is advantageous, as is exposure to lean manufacturing or continuous improvement methodologies.
What you'll get in return
In return, you will join a business where finance has genuine impact and visibility across operations. This role offers exposure to senior stakeholders, involvement in keymercial and operational decisions, and the opportunity to influence manufacturing performance through high‑quality financial insight. You will also have the chance to develop your technical andmercial skillset within a collaborative finance functionmitted to process improvement and digital transformation.