Management Accountant – Manufacturing Location: Onsite - Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire | Hours: Full-time | Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience | Reports to: Financial Controller Role Overview We are seeking a proactive Management Accountant to join our finance team. This role is a wide-ranging role in a small finance team, which will support the business by producing accurate management information, analysing operational performance, and providing financial insight to help improve profitability, cost control, and decision-making across the organisation. The successful candidate will work closely with production, operations, purchasing, and senior management to provide clear financial analysis, support budgeting and forecasting, and ensure robust month-end reporting processes. Key Responsibilities • Prepare accurate monthly management accounts, including profit and loss reports, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and journals. • Drive month-end close processes and ensure reporting deadlines are met. • Produce clear commentary on key financial results, trends, risks, opportunities, and variances against budget and forecast. • Monitor capital expenditure, fixed asset registers, depreciation, and investment project costs. • Assist with annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and scenario planning. • Complete daily reconciliation of bank accounts. • Produce monthly VAT returns and submit via online software platform. • Assist with the preparation of the weekly cashflow forecasting, providing commentary around any week-on-week variances. • Provide support to Project Accountant with analysis of manufacturing performance, including labour, material, overhead, cost of sales, scrap, stock, WIP, and production variances. • Assist the Project Accountant in developing enhanced operational reporting to track performance, support business growth, and monitor progress against KPI targets. • Provide support to Project Accountant with stock control processes, stock reconciliations, inventory valuation, and stocktake reporting. • Assist with statutory audit preparation and provide information to external advisers where required. • Assist with processing of transactions in relation to holding company. • Contribute to improvements in systems, reporting tools, and finance processes. • Provide finance cover for other areas within the team as and when required. Skills, Experience and Qualifications • Qualified, part-qualified, or actively studying towards accounting qualification. • Previous experience in a management accounting role in a small business is desirable. • Strong understanding of month-end processes, variance analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, and management reporting. • Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large data sets. • Experience using ERP or manufacturing systems is desirable. • Excellent attention to detail & analytical skills • Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information to non-finance colleagues. • Organised, self-motivated, and able to manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment. • A continuous improvement mindset and willingness to challenge existing processes constructively. Personal Attributes • Confident working with colleagues at all levels, from shop floor teams to senior leadership. • Practical, hands-on, and comfortable balancing detail with the bigger picture. • Proactive and solution-focused, with a positive approach to supporting colleagues and resolving operational challenges. What We Offer • Competitive salary and benefits package. • Supportive finance team environment with opportunities for professional development. • Study support may be available for candidates pursuing a recognised accounting qualification. About the business Slingsby Advanced Composites develops and delivers complex structural composites and sub-systems for the most extreme air, land and sea based environments, considering both current and future mission requirements. From bespoke one-off designs to low-volume manufacture, the business enjoys a unique place within its sector thanks to its application of ground-breaking technologies that drive the industry forward. How to Apply To apply, please send your CV and a short covering note outlining your relevant experience to careers@slingsbyac.com.

Management Accountant – Manufacturing Location:

Onsite - Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire | Hours: Full-time | Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience | Reports to: Financial Controller

Role Overview

We are seeking a proactive Management Accountant to join our finance team. This role is a wide-ranging role in a small finance team, which will support the business by producing accurate management information, analysing operational performance, and providing financial insight to help improve profitability, cost control, and decision-making across the organisation. The successful candidate will work closely with production, operations, purchasing, and senior management to provide clear financial analysis, support budgeting and forecasting, and ensure robust month-end reporting processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate monthly management accounts, including profit and loss reports, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and journals.

• Drive month-end close processes and ensure reporting deadlines are met.

• Produce clear commentary on key financial results, trends, risks, opportunities, and variances against budget and forecast.

• Monitor capital expenditure, fixed asset registers, depreciation, and investment project costs.

• Assist with annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and scenario planning.

• Complete daily reconciliation of bank accounts.

• Produce monthly VAT returns and submit via online software platform.

• Assist with the preparation of the weekly cashflow forecasting, providing commentary around any week-on-week variances.

• Provide support to Project Accountant with analysis of manufacturing performance, including labour, material, overhead, cost of sales, scrap, stock, WIP, and production variances.

• Assist the Project Accountant in developing enhanced operational reporting to track performance, support business growth, and monitor progress against KPI targets.

• Provide support to Project Accountant with stock control processes, stock reconciliations, inventory valuation, and stocktake reporting.

• Assist with statutory audit preparation and provide information to external advisers where required.

• Assist with processing of transactions in relation to holding company.

• Contribute to improvements in systems, reporting tools, and finance processes.

• Provide finance cover for other areas within the team as and when required.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Qualified, part-qualified, or actively studying towards accounting qualification.

• Previous experience in a management accounting role in a small business is desirable.

• Strong understanding of month-end processes, variance analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, and management reporting.

• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large data sets.

• Experience using ERP or manufacturing systems is desirable.

• Excellent attention to detail & analytical skills

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information to non-finance colleagues.

• Organised, self-motivated, and able to manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• A continuous improvement mindset and willingness to challenge existing processes constructively.

Personal Attributes

• Confident working with colleagues at all levels, from shop floor teams to senior leadership.

• Practical, hands-on, and comfortable balancing detail with the bigger picture.

• Proactive and solution-focused, with a positive approach to supporting colleagues and resolving operational challenges. What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Supportive finance team environment with opportunities for professional development.

• Study support may be available for candidates pursuing a recognised accounting qualification.

About the business

Slingsby Advanced Composites develops and delivers complex structural composites and sub-systems for the most extreme air, land and sea based environments, considering both current and future mission requirements. From bespoke one-off designs to low-volume manufacture, the business enjoys a unique place within its sector thanks to its application of ground-breaking technologies that drive the industry forward.