Job Title: Assistant Management Accountant
Location: North Manchester (Full time on site)
Salary: £35,000 – £40,000
Reporting to: Finance Business Partner
About the role
Sowena Group is delighted to be exclusively partnering with a growing, PE-backed manufacturing business based in North Manchester to recruit for a new Assistant Management Accountant as they continue to strengthen their finance function.
This role reports directly into the Finance Business Partner and will play a key part in delivering accurate financial reporting, supporting strategic decision-making and driving financial performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare monthly management accounts, including profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow reporting.
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations and ensure the integrity of financial records.
- Analyse overhead expenditure.
- Calculate monthly tariff recharges due to customers.
- Produce and analyse monthly financial reports, identifying trends and variances.
- Support month-end and year-end close activities.
- Prepare and submit VAT returns and assist with other statutory reporting requirements.
- Monitor costs, margins, and departmental performance.
- Support cash flow forecasting through the provision of accurate financial information.
- Assist in monitoring aged debtors, inventory levels, and other key working capital metrics.
- Intercompany consolidation
- Identify opportunities to improve financial processes and reporting efficiency.
- Assist with ad hoc financial projects as the business grows.
Essential Criteria
- Part qual CIMA/ACCA/ QBE
- 2-5 years’ experience in an accounting or finance role
- Strong understanding of double-entry bookkeeping and accounting principles.
- Excellent Excel skills and confidence working with financial systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial information to non-financial colleagues.
- A self-starter and forward thinking individual