Assistant Management Accountant in Lancaster

Employment Type

Full Time

Application Start Date

05-10-2026

Application End Date

05-11-2026

State/County

Lancashire

LA3 3BJ

Country

United Kingdom

Work Style

On-site

Manufacturing other marine MFG and services

Category

Finance and accounting

Position

Accountant/auditor

Experience

3 years

Education

A level

Description

Assistant Management Accountant
Location: Strongdor Head Office, Morecambe
Salary: 35k – 40k per annum + quarterly discretionary bonus scheme and other great benefits.
Full time, Office based

As part of this role, you will be required to travel between local sites. Therefore, a full UK driving license is required.

We're on the lookout for an Assistant Management Accountant to join the team at Strongdor, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of steel doors. If you enjoy getting into the detail, spotting opportunities for improvement, and helping a growing business make informed decisions, this could be the perfect role for you.

You'll play a key part in keeping our financial information accurate, supporting important business decisions, and helping ensure our finance processes run smoothly. Working closely with colleagues across the business, you'll have plenty of opportunities to make a real impact while continuing to develop your career.

What you'll be doing:

As our Assistant Management Accountant, you'll:

• Take ownership of key balance sheet reconciliations, including stock and factory-related accounts.
• Prepare and maintain accurate stock reconciliations and accounting records.
• Support the implementation and continuous improvement of financial controls and processes.
• Help ensure financial reporting is accurate, timely, and reliable.
• Work with our newly implemented purchase ledger system, Readsoft to ensure invoices are posted accurately and on time.
• Assist with month-end activities and a variety of finance projects.
• Work closely with teams across the business to improve systems, processes, and controls.
• Ensure financial records comply with company policies and accounting standards.
• Process fixed asset additions, disposals, and depreciation.
• Regularly review inventory balances to maintain accuracy.
• Analyse spending patterns, identify trends, highlight risks, and spot opportunities to reduce costs.

What we're looking for:

We're looking for someone who is naturally organised, enjoys solving problems, and has a keen eye for detail. You'll be comfortable working with financial data, enjoy collaborating with others, and take pride in producing accurate work.

Essential skills and experience:

• Previous experience carrying out account reconciliations.
• Experience accounting for stock and inventory.
• Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• AAT part-qualified, fully qualified, or currently studying towards CIMA or ACA.

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience using NAV 2018.
• Previous experience working within a manufacturing environment.

Hours of work:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 7:30am – 4:30pm

Why Join Us?

• Discretionary bonus scheme paid quarterly
• Health Cash Plan
• Annual leave purchase scheme – Purchase up to 5 extra holiday days per year
• Increased holiday days with length of service
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay with length of service
• A birthday ‘spin the wheel’ with gifts up to £100 in value
• Opportunity for career development
• Cycle to work scheme
• Auto enrolment pension scheme (potential for Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC) via salary sacrifice)
• Access to a company funded Employee Assistance Programme
• Real Living Wage Accredited
• Great team culture with frequent staff events and company lunches
• Secure on-site parking
• Branded workwear allocation each year

1. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT?

Strongdor Limited is a “data controller”. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. You are being sent a copy of this privacy notice because you are applying for work with us (whether as an employee, worker or contractor). It makes you aware of how and why your personal data will be used, namely for the purposes of the recruitment exercise, and how long it will usually be retained for. It provides you with certain information that must be provided under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

2. DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES

We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.

Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.

Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.

Accurate and kept up to date.

Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.

3. THE KIND OF INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU

In connection with your application for work with us, we will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:

The information you have provided to us in your curriculum vitae and covering letter.

The information you have provided on our application form, including name, title, address, telephone number, personal email address, date of birth, gender, employment history, qualifications.

Any information you provide to us during an interview.

Where interviews are conducted via Microsoft Teams or similar platforms, we may record video and/or audio of the interview. These recordings will be stored and used as part of the recruitment and assessment process.

We may also collect, store and use the following “special categories” of more sensitive personal information:

Information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions.

Information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records.

Information about criminal convictions and offences.

4. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED?

We may collect personal information about candidates from the following sources:

You, the candidate.

Recruitment agencies.

Background check providers.

Credit reference agencies.

Disclosure and Barring Service in respect of criminal convictions.

5. HOW WE WILL USE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

We will use the personal information we collect about you to:

Assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the role.

Carry out background and reference checks, where applicable.

Communicate with you about the recruitment process.

Keep records related to our hiring processes.

Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

Review and assess recorded video or audio interviews as part of the recruitment and selection process and to maintain recruitment records.

It is in our legitimate interests to decide whether to appoint you for the role for which you have applied since it would be beneficial to our business to appoint someone to that role.

We also need to process your personal information to decide whether to enter into a contract with you.

Where interviews are recorded, this will be for our legitimate business interests in ensuring a fair and consistent recruitment process and maintaining appropriate recruitment records. Recordings will only be accessed by those involved in the recruitment process and retained in accordance with our data retention policy.

Having received your CV and/or covering letterand/oryour application form, we will then process that information to decide whether you meet the basic requirements to be shortlisted for the role. If you do, we will decide whether your application is strong enough to invite you for an interview. If we decide to call you for an interview, we will use the information you provide to us at the interview to decide whether to offer you the role. If we decide to offer you the role, we may then take up referencesand/orcarry out a criminal record checks before confirming your appointment.

If you fail to provide personal information

If you fail to provide information when requested, which is necessary for us to consider your application (such as evidence of qualifications or work history), we will not be able to process your application successfully. For example, if we require a credit check or references for this role and you fail to provide us with relevant details, we will not be able to take your application further.

6. HOW WE USE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will use your particularly sensitive personal information in the following ways:

We will use information about your disability status to consider whether we need to provide appropriate adjustments during the recruitment process, for example whether adjustments need to be made during an interview.

We will use information about your race or national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.

7. INFORMATION ABOUT CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS

We envisage that we will process information about criminal convictions.

In some circumstances we may collect information about your criminal convictions history if we would like to offer you the work role (conditional on checks and any other conditions, such as references, being satisfactory). We may be entitled to carry out a criminal record check in order to satisfy ourselves that there is nothing in your criminal convictions history which makes you unsuitable for the role. Should the role require a high degree of trust and integrity for example, since it involves dealing with large amounts of money and so, in those circumstances we would and like to ask you to seek a basic disclosure of your criminal records history.

We have in place an appropriate policy document and safeguards which we are required by law to maintain when processing such data.

8. AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING

You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making.

9. DATA SHARING

Why might you share my personal information with third parties?

We will only share your personal information with the following third parties for the purposes of processing your application: other entities in the group, appointed payroll agents, pension providers and HR system providers, currently being SGW Payroll, NEST Pensions and the HR information system respectively. All our third‑party service providers and other entities in the group are required to take

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