Management Accountant - Operations

Benefits

We’re good at what we do – come and join us and you can benefit from:

• Blended Working
• Bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28)
• Option to buy holiday days
• Wellbeing Programme
• Health Cash Plan
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Referral Scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Free Parking

Based from our Cardiff office, this is an exciting opportunity for a confident, proactive and commercially minded finance professional to play a key role in supporting Group Operations Finance. As Management Accountant – Operations, you will work closely with operational teams to turn financial and operational data into clear insight, helping to drive performance, support decision‑making and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Reporting to the Head of FP&A – Operations, you will support key areas including product costing, variance analysis, scenario planning, operations finance reporting, KPI development and capital expenditure analysis.

• Support the Head of FP&A – Operations in all aspects of operations related Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A).
• Key business partnering for operational teams.
• To support Group product costing including twice yearly standard cost revisions, understanding cost absorption methodology as the best fit for each manufacturing operation.
• To provide quality financial reports to operations management across sites to aid in decision making.
• Supporting a Group project to implement an operations finance module into the Cardiff and Comber sites including manufacturing works orders and WIP management.
• To produce and support relevant business metrics (KPIs) to add visual representations of operations data to include labour productivity, material scrap rates, operations cost per unit and cost per hour, amongst other production and delivery metrics.
• Monthly variance analysis to standard cost, enabling operation managers to understand and interpret data to facilitate continuous improvement (CI), including material price and usage variances, direct labour rate and efficiency variances, and production overhead cost and efficiency (productivity) analysis.
• Produce and support Capital Expenditure (Capex) proposals through quality analysis including return on investment, net present value and payback modelling.
• Support the New Product Introduction (NPI) process through scenario planning, modelling, analysis and reporting.
• Challenge ways of working, to standardise common tasks and be a champion of CI within the function.
• Support the month‑end and year‑end processes for operations as part of a wider finance team role.
• Support the wider Finance, HR and Operations functions as required.

• To adhere to the company’s Equal Opportunities policy and Dignity at work policy in all activities and to actively promote equality of opportunity wherever possible.
• To be responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, in accordance with the company’s Health and Safety policy.
• To adhere to the company’s Quality policy and Environmental policy.
• To undertake other duties as may be reasonably required.

• Hold a recognised accountancy qualification (or part qualified) such as CIMA, ACCA, ACA, etc.
• Operations finance experience.
• Strong data analytics capability, with the ability to translate metrics into clear, meaningful insights.
• Up to date knowledge of current costing/management accounting practices through CPD.
• Demonstrable experience of partnering with operations stakeholders to review financial performance, challenge assumptions and provide clear, practical recommendations based on financial analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills, with the ability to manipulate, analyse and present financial and operational data accurately and effectively.
• Highly organised and detail‑focused, with the ability to manage priorities efficiently and deliver accurate work within agreed timescales.
• Proven ability to review, improve and embed effective financial processes, compliance requirements and internal controls.

• Previous experience in large manufacturing enterprises advantageous.
• Previous experience gained in:
  • Sage…