Senior Management Accountant - Finance Business Partner

Senior Management Accountant - Finance Business Partner / CIMA, ACCA, ACA Qualified / Permanent Role / Bolton - Lancashire / Salary £60,000 - £70,000 DOE + Excellent Benefits / Excellent Career Development / Commercial Business Exposure.

Senior Management Accountant - Finance Business Partner Benefits

• Salary £60,000 - £70,000 DOE
• Free Parking
• 25 Days Holiday
• Pension
• Hybrid Working 2 Days office

NC Associates are working in partnership with an established but rapidly growing engineering organisation based in Bolton Lancashire to assist in recruiting a commercial Senior Management Accountant - Finance Business Partner to join their growing team. This exciting opportunity is now live as they have gone through real growth and expansion over the last few years. As a result, they need a qualified Accountant to join as a Finance Business Partner who can add value, contribute commercially and act as the conduit between finance and operations within the business supporting the senior leadership team. As a Senior Management Accountant take ownership of the end-to-end financial management of an unincorporated joint venture between three entities within the business. This is a hands-on, autonomous role suited to a proactive individual who enjoys building efficient processes, working with complex data, and adding real commercial value to a growing business. The role will be responsible for producing accurate monthly management accounts, budgets and forecasts, calculating partner profit distributions, and significantly improving and automating the current month-end processes, which are currently highly manual and time-consuming.

Senior Management Accountant - Finance Business Partner Responsibilities include -

Financial Reporting & Management Accounts

• Manage the full end-to-end accounting for the separate entities
• Produce timely and accurate monthly management accounts
• Collate and process timesheet and cost data from all 3 entities
• Ensure accurate cost allocation, revenue recognition and margin analysis
• Prepare and present financial performance reports to stakeholders

Partner Profit Distributions

• Calculate monthly and periodic profit distributions to the separate entity partners
• Ensure transparency and accuracy in partner reporting
• Maintain clear documentation of profit-sharing methodologies

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Prepare annual budgets and regular forecasts
• Analyse variances against budget and forecast, providing clear commentary
• Support strategic decision-making through financial modelling and scenario analysis

Process Improvement & Automation

• Review and critically assess the current month-end and reporting processes
• Design and implement streamlined, automated, and scalable processes fit for business growth
• Reduce manual intervention, improve efficiency, and enhance data integrity
• Leverage advanced Excel capabilities and other appropriate tools to drive automation

To be successful in your application for this role you MUST have the following experience

Senior Management Accountant - Finance Business Partner Experience Required

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, or qualified by experience
• Proven experience in a senior management accounting role
• Strong experience producing monthly management accounts end-to-end
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel (advanced formulas, pivot tables, Power Query, macros/VBA advantageous)
• Demonstrable experience streamlining and automating finance processes
• Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work autonomously, manage priorities, and meet deadlines
• Confident communicator able to engage with senior stakeholders

Desirable

• Experience working within a group or multi-entity environments
• Background in engineering, professional services, or project-based organisations
• Experience integrating data from multiple source systems

Personal Attributes

• Proactive, curious, and improvement-focused
• Highly organised with a strong sense of ownership
• Comfortable operating with minimal supervision
• Keen to build scalable solutions rather than short-term fixes
• Commercially minded with a problem-solving approach

What's On Offer?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a growing organisation with excellent market presence that can help support your experience as well as build your experience moving forward, they offer lots of great benefits including an attractive salary, bonus, career development plus lots more. Please get in touch for immediate consideration by contacting Wayne Caunce at NC Associates on email or call

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