Management Accountant - Manufacturing Finance & Stock

Riverside Recruitment Ltd; Wigton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

34 days holiday including public hols

Life assurance

Pension with 3% employer and 5% staff

Colleague discounts

Employee Assistance Programme

Professional study support

Varied projects and skill development

Job summary

Riverside Recruitment Ltd is partnering with our client to appoint a Management Accountant at Lake District Creamery in Aspatria. The role focuses on manufacturing finance, stock controls, and month-end reporting, with scope to drive practical improvements across the Cheese Business Unit.

You will join a farmer-owned dairy co-operative, delivering weekly reports, budgets, and forecasts while engaging with site teams to optimise processes and strengthen controls.

Qualifications

• Practical management accounting experience.
• Understanding of manufacturing and stock processes.
• Ability to explain numbers to non-finance colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Prepare weekly reporting, monthly management accounts, forecasts and budgets.
• Explain performance, investigate variances and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Maintain accurate stock valuations, reconciliations and month-end reporting.
• Review stock movements, coordinate counts and resolve discrepancies.
• Strengthen controls and support audit requirements.
• Collaborate with finance, warehouse and site teams to improve processes.

Skills

Management accounting

Manufacturing finance

Stock accounting

Communicating with non-finance

Education

ACCA/CIMA part-qualified

AAT background

Job description

Riverside Recruitment Ltd is partnering with our client to appoint a Management Accountant at Lake District Creamery in Aspatria. The role focuses on manufacturing finance, stock controls, and month-end reporting, with scope to drive practical improvements across the Cheese Business Unit.

You will join a farmer-owned dairy co-operative, delivering weekly reports, budgets, and forecasts while engaging with site teams to optimise processes and strengthen controls.