Manufacturing Financial Controller

Your new company
Hays Senior Finance are partnering with a growing and highly innovative organisation to appoint a qualified Financial Controller with strong manufacturing and stock accounting experience. This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious finance professional to play a key role in supporting production operations, driving financial controls, and ensuring accurate inventory and cost accounting across a complex manufacturing environment.

Working closely with the Finance Director and operational teams both in the UK and internationally, you will take ownership of production-related financial processes, providing valuable insight into inventory management, costing, profitability, and operational performance.

Your new role

• Own and manage the production planning process, ensuring accurate financial accounting treatment across manufacturing activities.
• Take responsibility for standard costing models and maintain cost sheets across product lines.
• Lead month-end stock reconciliations between ERP and warehouse management systems, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Monitor work-in-progress (WIP) valuations and analyse raw material consumption against expected usage.
• Ensure accurate Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) reporting and provide detailed margin and variance analysis.
• Prepare and manage complex profit-share and royalty-style calculations.
• Review and approve stock-related supplier invoices and manufacturing cost allocations.
• Validate third-party warehousing and subcontractor costs, ensuring accurate project and cost centre allocation.
• Partner closely with operational and finance teams to strengthen financial controls and improve reporting processes.

What you'll need to succeed

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven experience within a manufacturing, production, inventory, or stock-intensive environment.
• Strong understanding of standard costing, inventory accounting, WIP and COGS.
• Advanced Excel skills with the ability to build complex financial models and analyses.
• Commercially minded with excellent attention to detail.
• Able to work independently while building strong relationships across finance and operational teams.
• Confident communicator with a proactive and hands-on approach.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work closely with senior leadership and contribute to the growth of a dynamic business.
• A varied and commercially focused role offering significant exposure to manufacturing operations and financial decision-making.

What you need to do now
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