Management Accountant

Laing O'Rourke; Oldbury; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An international engineering and construction company is looking for a talented Management Accountant to join its Specialist Trading Business Group in Oldbury, UK. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in manufacturing finance, advanced Excel skills, and experience with SAP. This role involves producing monthly reporting, analysing business performance, and implementing process improvements. A qualified accountant is essential for this hands-on position.

Qualifications

• Must have experience with monthly reporting and forecasting.
• Need strong background in manufacturing finance.
• Experience managing budgets and driving process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Produce monthly reporting including P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow.
• Analyse business performance and provide actionable insights.
• Ensure accuracy of balance sheet accounts and monthly reconciliations.
• Implement improvements to financial and business processes.

Skills

Business partnering

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Advanced Excel skills

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Tools

SAP

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Overview

This role does not provide visa sponsorship.

We're looking for a talented Management Accountant to join Laing O'Rourke's Specialist Trading Business Group (STBG) at CHtM, one of our two UK manufacturing facilities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in manufacturing finance, with hands-on experience of working closely with operations and production teams. This industry knowledge will enable you to understand the challenges of a manufacturing environment, drive cost efficiency, and deliver meaningful insight that supports both strategic and day to day decision making. This is a hands-on role with broad exposure, covering everything from management reporting and forecasting through to process improvements and financial controls.

What you'll be doing

• Produce monthly reporting, including full Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow, with timely submission of budget and forecast data to Group Finance.
• Analyse business performance, highlighting key variances to budget/forecast and providing clear, actionable insights.
• Ensure accuracy and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, fixed asset registers (FAR), and stock listings, with all reconciliations completed and reviewed monthly.
• Carry out regular internal reviews to confirm stock and work-in-progress (WIP) are accurately reflected in financial systems and reports.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to financial and business processes, ensuring timely, accurate management information is consistently available.
• Keep up to date with relevant accounting standards and implement new treatments as required.
• Prepare and review supporting schedules and documentation for year-end audit processes.
• Prepare and submit statutory returns (including VAT) accurately and on time.

What we're looking for

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) - or qualified by experience.
• Experience with SAP.
• Strong business partnering experience with the ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Commercially aware, with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Confident working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
• Advanced Excel skills, with experience developing and interpreting financial models.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, and monthly reporting cycles.
• A track record of driving process improvements.

Desirable but not essential

• Experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of systems such as COINs, Tagetik, or Power BI.
• Experience in a large or matrixed organisation.

About us

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the Offer an interview scheme. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

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