Management Accountant

Management Accountant Location – Bacup – office based Salary – up to 55k

An established and highly regarded business in the North West is seeking a commercially minded and hands on Management Accountant to join its finance team during an exciting period of transformation and growth.

With a long-standing heritage and a strong reputation within its sector and following recent private equity investment, the company is embarking on an ambitious growth strategy involving operational improvement, systems development, and acquisition activity over the next five years.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, the Management Accountant will play a key role in delivering timely and insightful management information, supporting budgeting and forecasting processes, and helping to strengthen product costing and margin analysis across the business.

Key Responsibilities

Support the preparation of monthly management accounts, including sales and margin reporting

Assist in developing robust product costing models, including labour and overhead absorption methodologies

Ensure standard and actual product costs are maintained, reviewed, and understood to support accurate reporting and commercial decision-making

Partner with operational, procurement, and commercial teams to understand and analyse key cost drivers

Support budgeting and forecasting processes across sales, margins, overheads, and working capital

Analyse performance

Provide ad-hoc financial analysis to support pricing decisions, investment appraisals, business cases, and new product introductions

Work closely with non-finance stakeholders to improve financial understanding and accountability across the business

Contribute to the implementation and development of a new ERP system, particularly around costing, controls, and management reporting

Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Rebecca on or