Company Accountant

Meridian Business Support; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a qualified Company Accountant to lead the Finance team in a successful SME business in Plymouth. You will provide financial analysis, manage accounting operations, and ensure financial targets are met. The ideal candidate will have qualifications in CIMA, ACCA, or ACA, substantial manufacturing experience, and be an advanced Excel user. This position offers great benefits, including a profit share scheme and generous holiday allocation.

Benefits

Profit Share scheme

Free parking

Company Pension

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Qualified in CIMA, ACCA, or ACA.
• Experience in finance within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support and analysis for decision-making.
• Manage and coordinate the accounting team.
• Ownership of quarterly forecasts and yearly budgets.

Skills

CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified

Significant experience in a manufacturing finance team

Advanced Excel user

Job description

Company Accountant

We are looking for a qualified Company Accountantwho has significant experience working within a manufacturing environment. You will head up the Finance team of 4, working as part of the SMT of this hugely successful SME business. You will be a hands on Accountant, with a 'can do' attitude and desire to work closely with the Board to progress the business even further. It's a superb team, with lovely people and is a great opportunity for the right person.

The Role:

Provide financial support / information and analysis to the business to enable relevant commercial and operational decisions to be made.
Working with the Finance and Manufacturing teams to create transparency of manufacturing variances, identify risks, eliminate inefficiencies and reporting for the month end close.
Improve business controls throughout site.
Lead, manage, develop, coordinate the accounting team.
Customer and credit risk management.
Ownership of providing quarterly forecasts and yearly budgets as well as other financial reports/presentations.
Partnering with site budget owners to ensure delivery of financial results to target.
Helping the site to deliver its investment promises and track against the site KPI’s.
Review and approve inventory write off and provisions.
Support the annual statutory audit and accounts preparation.Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required

CIMA, ACCAor ACA qualified essential.
Significant experience working within a Finance team within a manufacturing environment.
Advanced Excel user.Working Hours and benefits:
07:45 - 17:00 Mon to Thurs, 08:30 - 12:30 Fridays (39 hours)
Profit Share scheme
Free parking
Company Pension
25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy

Job Info

Job Title:

Company Accountant

Company:

Meridian Business Support

Location:

Posted:

Aug 8th 2025

Closes:

Sep 8th 2025

Sector:

Contract:

Permanent

Hours:

Full Time

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