Management Accountant
South Manchester
£50,000pa
We’re working with a growing, multi-entity business to appoint a Management Accountant role within the finance function.
As Management Accountant, you will play a key role in supporting financial control and performance management across eight operating divisions within a dynamic recycling and commodities business. Working closely with operational teams, you will ensure accurate reporting of material purchases, processing yields, stock movements, and margins.
This position blends core management accounting responsibilities with hands-on operational analysis. You will help maintain strong oversight of inventory, pricing, and divisional profitability, ensuring financial information reflects operational reality.
Responsibilities of the role:
* Provide meaningful commentary on performance against budget and prior periods
* Support the month-end close process, including accruals, prepayments, and cost allocations
* Ensure financial reporting aligns with operational activity
* Monitor scrap inventory, finished goods, and stock movements
* Reconcile operational weighbridge data with finance records
* Ensure accurate stock valuation based on cost or market-linked pricing
* Investigate variances, shrinkage, losses, and discrepancies
* Support stock counts and yard reconciliations
* Track aged and slow-moving stock, identifying potential write-down risks
* Analyse buy versus sell price margins across materials
* Monitor processing yields and identify inefficiencies
* Assisting with the preparation of annual budgets
* Supporting forecasts of volumes, pricing, and margins
* Complete balance sheet reconciliations, including stock and accruals
* Strengthen controls over purchasing, stock recording, and revenue recognition
Essential requirements:
* Qualified / Part-qualified accountant (ACCA / CIMA / ACA)
* Experience producing management accounts in an operational business
* Strong Excel skills and financial analysis capability
* Ability to work closely with non-finance operational teams
Desirable
* Background within recycling, waste management, manufacturing, logistics, commodities, or materials processing sectors
* Experience operating in stock-intensive or margin-focused business environments
* Familiarity with operational data platforms such as ERP, inventory management systems etc
Personal Attributes
* Confident operating across both office and on-site environments, building strong working relationships with site teams
* Highly detail-oriented with a proactive, solutions-focused approach