Finance & Management Accounts Manager

Life Style Snacks Pvt Ltd; Lahore; On-site; PKR 2,790,000 - 3,348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Job summary

Life Style Snacks (Pvt.) Ltd. based in Lahore is seeking a Finance & Management Accounts Manager to provide the CEO with complete financial visibility across profitability, cash flow, working capital, inventory, product costing and controls.

This is a senior, commercially minded role beyond routine bookkeeping. The role focuses on management accounting, costing, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis, with close collaboration to Production, Sales, and Supply Chain, and opportunities to

Qualifications

• Preferred professional qualifications: ACMA / CMA / ACCA / CA Finalist or Qualified CA
• 5–8 years of relevant finance/accounting experience
• At least 3 years in manufacturing, preferably FMCG, food, pharmaceutical, packaging or consumer products
• Strong experience in management accounting, costing, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis
• Strong understanding of manufacturing accounts, inventory, WIP, finished goods and product costing
• Excellent command of Microsoft Excel including Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS and financial modelling
• Experience with ERP/accounting systems
• Power BI/dashboarding experience will be an advantage
• Ability to prepare and interpret management accounts rather than simply record transactions

Responsibilities

• Preparing a complete monthly management P&L by the 5th working day of every month
• Preparing daily and weekly CEO financial dashboards covering sales, collections, cash, receivables, payables, inventory, expenses and profitability
• Developing and maintaining a 13-week rolling cash-flow forecast
• Monitoring actual performance against budget and explaining all material variances
• Maintaining accurate SKU/product costing, including raw material, packaging, conversion cost and contribution margin
• Analysing profitability by SKU, customer and sales channel
• Maintaining complete visibility over accounts receivable and accounts payable ageing
• Reconciling bank balances, inventory, customer accounts, supplier balances and other key balance-sheet accounts
• Monitoring finished goods, raw material and packaging inventory and reconciling book stock with physical stock
• Identifying financial leakage, abnormal costs, wastage and control weaknesses
• Establishing strong internal financial controls and ensuring that every reported number is supported by evidence
• Supporting management with commercial analysis and financial decision-making
• Working closely with Production, Sales, Supply Chain and Management while maintaining financial independence
• Improving ERP/accounting processes, reporting systems and management information

Skills

Management accounting

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Excel

Education

ACMA / CMA / ACCA / CA Finalist or Qualified CA

Tools

ERP/accounting systems

Power BI

Excel

Job description

WE ARE HIRING — FINANCE & MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTS MANAGER

PKR 250,000–300,000 per month + Performance Bonus

Reports directly to the CEO

Life Style Snacks (Pvt.) Ltd., a food manufacturing company based in Lahore, is looking for a highly competent, commercially minded Finance & Management Accounts Manager.

This is not a routine bookkeeping or taxation role.

We are looking for a strong management-accounting professional who can provide the CEO based outside Pakistan with complete financial visibility of the business — profitability, cash flow, working capital, inventory, product costing, customer/channel profitability and financial controls.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Preparing a complete monthly management P&L by the 5th working day of every month
• Preparing daily and weekly CEO financial dashboards covering sales, collections, cash, receivables, payables, inventory, expenses and profitability
• Developing and maintaining a 13-week rolling cash-flow forecast
• Monitoring actual performance against budget and explaining all material variances
• Maintaining accurate SKU/product costing, including raw material, packaging, conversion cost and contribution margin
• Analysing profitability by SKU, customer and sales channel
• Maintaining complete visibility over accounts receivable and accounts payable ageing
• Reconciling bank balances, inventory, customer accounts, supplier balances and other key balance-sheet accounts
• Monitoring finished goods, raw material and packaging inventory and reconciling book stock with physical stock
• Identifying financial leakage, abnormal costs, wastage and control weaknesses
• Establishing strong internal financial controls and ensuring that every reported number is supported by evidence
• Supporting management with commercial analysis and financial decision-making
• Working closely with Production, Sales, Supply Chain and Management while maintaining financial independence
• Improving ERP/accounting processes, reporting systems and management information

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Performance will be measured on:

• Monthly P&L completed accurately and on time
• Accuracy of cash, bank, AR, AP and inventory reconciliations
• Accuracy of cash-flow forecasts
• Daily CEO dashboard delivered consistently
• Current costing and margin analysis for all active SKUs
• Customer/channel/SKU profitability visibility
• Budget-versus-actual reporting and variance analysis
• Reduction in unexplained financial discrepancies and control exceptions
• Accuracy of physical versus accounting inventory
• Quality and reliability of management information supplied to the CEO

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Preferred professional qualifications:

ACMA / CMA / ACCA / CA Finalist or Qualified CA

Candidates should ideally have:

• 5–8 years of relevant finance/accounting experience
• At least 3 years in manufacturing, preferably FMCG, food, pharmaceutical, packaging or consumer products
• Strong experience in management accounting, costing, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis
• Strong understanding of manufacturing accounts, inventory, WIP, finished goods and product costing
• Excellent command of Microsoft Excel including Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS and financial modelling
• Experience with ERP/accounting systems
• Power BI/dashboarding experience will be an advantage
• Ability to prepare and interpret management accounts rather than simply record transactions

THE PERSONALITY WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are specifically looking for someone who is:

• Highly honest and trustworthy
• Strong, confident and professionally assertive
• Detail-oriented and analytical
• Commercially minded — not just accounting focused
• Comfortable questioning numbers that do not reconcile
• Able to challenge management respectfully when required
• Hands-on and willing to physically verify inventory and operational information
• Disciplined and deadline driven
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Comfortable reporting directly to the CEO who is based outside Pakistan
• Proactive — identifies problems rather than waiting to be asked
• Able to communicate clearly in both written and spoken English

The ideal candidate should have the mindset:

“If a number does not reconcile, I will find out why before I report it.”

COMPENSATION

PKR 250,000–300,000 per month + performance-linked bonus, depending on experience and capability.

Exceptional candidates with particularly strong manufacturing management-accounting credentials may be considered separately.