Alongside the costing work, you'll own the entity's management accounts end-to-end, including month-end, balance sheet reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, cashflow and variance analysis, giving you full visibility of the numbers and the opportunity to use them to support operational decision-making as the business grows.

Whilst you will have full ownership of all accounting for the entity, the transactional volume is genuinely light, with a handful of customers and suppliers and a low number of monthly bank transactions, and this part of the role is very much an interim solution rather than the role long-term. The plan is that once processes and reporting are properly established and production grows, an assistant will be brought in to take the transactional workload away from this position, leaving you focused on the more commercial, forward-looking elements as the entity scales, with an assistant to directly manage. That's a genuine advantage rather than a limitation: you're in control of the whole entity from day one, and doing the transactional work yourself to begin with means you'll properly understand how it all works before you eventually hand that side over to an assistant.

The Requirements

You must have solid, hands-on experience owning management accounts end-to-end, including budgeting, forecasting and month-end, alongside strong product or manufacturing costing experience. In particular, you'll need practical experience of bill-of-materials, standard costing and the subsequent analysis, as you'll be helping to build these processes rather than stepping into something already established.

Person fit matters just as much as technical experience, the team is looking for someone with a genuine willingness to get stuck into a small, fast-moving business, with the confidence to build and drive the costing and business-partnering elements themselves rather than waiting to be told exactly what to do.

You'll need to be confident working with actual-versus-expected variance analysis in a manufacturing environment, with manufacturing or FMCG experience essential.

You'll also need to be hands-on and happy to cover some transactional work alongside the management accounts in the short term, given the role's current size, and have a genuine SME mindset, happy to muck in, work things out and adapt as processes and systems continue to develop.

Ideally, you'll be qualified (CIMA / ACCA or equivalent) or currently working towards a qualification, with study support available if you want to complete it. Qualified by experience candidates may also be considered where the relevant manufacturing finance and costing experience is particularly strong.

Experience within a regulated manufacturing or other stock-based environment would be advantageous, as would exposure to a modern ERP/accounting system and more complex stock or product costing.

The Rewards

Given the nature of this position and specific experience required, salary is negotiable depending on your experience. However, as a guide, between £50,000 - £60,000 with some potential beyond this – all experience dependant. You'll receive 31 days' holiday in total, including bank holidays and your birthday off, alongside company pension, on-site parking and a wellbeing initiative. There's also a good social side to the business, with regular staff events throughout the year. The role is predominantly office-based, potentially 1 day a week from home and there is flexibility around working hours and occasional home working by prior agreement. Dress is casual and the overall working environment is informal and down-to-earth.