Assistant Management Accountant

Trostan Dene; Westhoughton; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global manufacturing firm in Westhoughton is looking for an Assistant Management Accountant. You will be involved in month-end accounting, budget preparation, and financial forecasting. Candidates should have strong Excel skills, a part-qualified accounting status, and experience with ERP systems. The salary ranges from £28,000 to £33,000 with benefits including enhanced pension and a flexible working option.

Benefits

Enhanced pension

Competitive benefits

1-day work from home option

Qualifications

• 6-12 months of hands-on month-end accounting experience.
• Comfortable with aspects of budgeting cycle.
• Experience with MRP or ERP systems required.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to financial performance reports and management accounts.
• Prepare month-end accruals and general ledger journals.
• Assist with annual budgets and financial forecasting cycles.

Skills

Month-end accounting experience

Costing

Variance analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

ERP systems experience

Microsoft Excel

Leadership skills

Education

Part-qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA)

Tools

SAP

Power BI

SQL

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12.08.2025

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26.09.2025

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The Business

A global manufacturing business with a long established presence in this niche area of manufacturing and are without question the market-leader who have experienced solid growth in recent years despite challenging economic conditions, which speaks greatly to the stability of the organisation.

The Role

We're looking for someone with a solid foundation in finance, ideally with a minimum of 6-12 months of hands-on month-end accounting experience and a working knowledge of things like costing, variance analysis, and budgeting or forecasting. You don't need to have mastered every aspect of the budgeting cycle, but you should be comfortable getting involved in parts of it, whether that's Capex, overheads, or cashflow. It's important that you've worked with MRP or ERP systems before, and if you bring SAP, Power BI, or even SQL or advanced Excel skills to the table, that's a big plus. Exposure to manufacturing or cost accounting isn't a must, but if you're curious about the manufacturing space or open to learning, you'll definitely fit in well here.

Duties

• Contribute to the preparation and review of financial performance reports, including monthly statements and management accounts.
• Prepare and post month-end accruals and general ledger journals as part of the closing process.
• Support the generation of trial balances, incorporating commentary for monthly review discussions.
• Assist with the development and coordination of annual budgets and periodic financial forecasting cycles.
• Perform variance analysis comparing actual financials to budgeted and forecasted figures, offering actionable insights.
• Monitor and analyse overhead expenditure across multiple business segments, highlighting key trends and variances.
• Support the reconciliation of sales, dispatches, and inventory data across internal systems to ensure revenue and stock integrity.
• Assist in tracking capital investments, providing financial insights and supporting updates to capital forecasts.
• Participate in mid-year and year-end inventory counts, including reconciliation of ERP and financial systems.
• Collaborate on audit-related tasks to ensure smooth half-year and year-end financial audits.

Experience

• Part-qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA)
• Experience with month end management account production, not through to completion but involvement beyond managing transactional finance elements (i.e. accruals, prepayments, journal posting, trial balance).
• Involvement with budgeting and forecasting - it is not necessary to have knowledge of the full process but certainly having played an active role in parts of the process including Cashflow, Capex, Overheads etc.
• Preferably, you will have experience working in a manufacturing environment and have developed some understanding of cost accounting
• Strong knowledge and experience of Microsoft Excel
• Experience managing a team and demonstration of leadership skills
• Experience with ERP systems in a complex environment

On Offer

• Salary - £28,000 - £33,000 (possibly higher for the right candidate)
• Working hours - 36 hrs per week with the option of 1-day WFH
• Enhanced pension
• Competitive benefits to be discussed further over the phone.