BBF Limited
Senior Management Accountant
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Senior Management Accountant
Chief Accountant (Management Accounting) – Blackburne Foods (Hybrid)
Location: Blackburne Foods, Lancashire, UK Working Arrangement: Hybrid (office-based, primarily Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm) Salary: £60,000 p.a. Employer: Blackburne Foods (BBF)
About the Role
Seeking an experienced Financial Accountant with a strong manufacturing background (preferably food/FMCG) to lead financial reporting, costing, and business partnering for our operational teams. You’ll support month-end close, budgeting, strategic planning, and process improvements—autonomy and creativity are encouraged!
Why join us? BBF are known for putting people first, offering a supportive, collaborative culture, and a state-of-the-art facility where innovation thrives. Join us to change food production—for good!
Key Responsibilities
📊 Financial Reporting & Control
- Deliver timely, detailed monthly management accounts (full P&L & balance sheet analysis)
- Lead rigorous month-end close, including accruals, prepayments, and variance analysis
- Ensure strict compliance with financial controls, internal policies and audit processes
- Support statutory reporting, taxeffi ciency, and regulatory filings
🤝 Business Partnering
- Act as a finance business partner, advising operational and site teams on cost-efficiency and growth opportunities
- Challenge assumptions with data-driven insights to support strategic decision-making
- Collaborate closely with production teams to review efficiency, waste reduction, and yield performance
- Partner on capex spend analysis and operational profitability discussions
- Translate finance trends into actionable business strategies—bridging the gap with non-finance stakeholders
✏️ Costing & Manufacturing Finance
- Maintain and enhance our standard costing models, ensuring alignment with real-world performance
- Conduct in-depth production variance analysis (labor, materials, overheads) and propose improvement measures
- Monitor inventory profitability, valuation, and stock controls—or reporting anomalies
- Align with cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives across all production functions
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📈 Budgeting & Forecasting
- Own and drive the annual budgeting cycles, ensuring value accuracy and achievable targets
- Facilitate dynamic bi-annual forecasting to adapt to market fluctuations and production changes
- Track variance between actuals vs. budget, providing clear rationale for variances
- Work with department heads to signpost opportunities for improvement based on financial analysis
🔄 Process Improvement
- Identify inefficiencies in existing financial processes and systems, with a focus on automation & efficiency gains
- Leverage data analysis to uncover trends and opportunities for standardisation
- Support corporate finance transformations, including ERP system enhancements and reporting upgrades -Champion a culture of “always better”—continuously improve processes and learning
Skills & Experience
🔹 Essential
- Fully-qualified accountant (with one of: ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or other chartered association)
- Five+ years’ experience in manufacturing accountancy, ideally in food or FMCG sectors
- Deep understanding of standard costing models, spoiled batch reconciliation, and production yield analysis
- Advanced Excel (dynamic arrays, pivot tables, scenarios, automation scripts) plus strong experience with ERP systems
- Proven ability to influence up/down hierarchy—bridging emotive conversations with commercial impact
- Spotlight’s essential: meticulous attention to detail with a strong narrative mind to explain variances effectively
- Highly organised; prioritisation skills for urgent deadlines
⚡ Desirable
- Past experience in a multi-site manufacturing environment, fast-paced or high-volume production settings
- Familiarity with Lean Six Sigma or cost-reduction programs applied to production lines
Key Competencies
✅ Operational awareness—knows our worlds and frustrations as a production worker ✅ Strong analytical appetite, turning numbers into strategic options ✅ Thrives under pressure with a can-do attitude—views deadlines as challenges to solve ✅ Counsel-problem solver: brings fresh perspectives to fix process gaps ✅ Top-level communications: explains technical info to stakeholders of all levels
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Why BBF? (Our Benefits)
💰 Financial & Wellbeing
- competitive new hire salary of £60,000 + differential reviews & merit adjustements
- 4x Life Assurance (££££ protection regardless of industry trends)
- Access to the company Benefits Hub (shop discounts, travel deals, cashback specific to low-carbon living)
- Discontinued Food’ surplus scheme: experience delicious treats, good quality food at low cost
🍏 Health & Work-Life
- 28 days holiday per annum (+ statutory rates)
- Hybrid working: in-office collaboration days balanced with autonomy
- 24/7 access to a GP: health checks without appointment stress
- Employee Assistance Programme: confidential advice for whatever life throws
- Dedicated Bereavement Support team: aligns with humanity of northeast values
🎯 Personal & Growth
- PPan of benefit from a dedicated L&D team and bespoke pathways for your development — personalised mentoring and skill-building plans across people skill-workshops and finance deep-dives
- Access to +100 online training courses—spanning accounting tech to leadership
🌟 Beyond
- BBF Star Awards: recognises standouts outstanding —imping on envrionments and collaboration recognises Colleagues
- First-park-free Parking: a premium within tight rural geography
Disclaimer on Recruitment Agencies: BBF manage all recruitment internally through our In-House Team via a it CP Spectrum PSL process; no agency activity permitted without explicit instruction and any CVs sent privately will be treated simply as a request learned without return.
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