Management Accountant

Transport for the North; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional transport authority in Manchester is seeking an experienced Management Accountant to deliver essential management accounting and budgeting services. The successful candidate will act as a trusted financial partner, responsible for monthly reporting, system enhancement, and providing business insights to various directorates. Applicants should have a relevant accounting qualification and strong expertise in management accounting, ideally in the public sector. A competitive salary and additional benefits such as generous holiday and pension schemes are offered.

Benefits

28 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays

Access to the local government pension scheme

Flexi-Time Scheme allowing accrual of additional leave

Various salary sacrifice benefits

Qualifications

• Strong experience in management accounting within the public sector or similar environment.
• Experience supporting or leading improvements to financial processes and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Deliver effective management accounting service including month-end reporting.
• Support and enhance financial systems, processes and controls.
• Provide insightful business partnering to directorates.

Skills

Management accounting

Analytical skills

Communication

Innovation

Collaboration

Education

Qualified or part-qualified accountant (CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA, ACA)

Tools

Excel

Job description

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Management Accountant

Reference: FEB20263121

Expiry date: 12:00, Fri, 13th Feb 2026

Location: Manchester

Benefits: 28 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays, access to the local government pension scheme, access to various salary sacrifice benefits, access to Flexi-Time Scheme, allowing accrual of up to 18 additional days leave per year

Transport for the North was established in 2018 as the first Sub-national Transport Body in England and was formed to transform the transport system for the North of England, providing the strategic infrastructure needed for enhanced economic growth.

As a partnership, we bring together the North’s local transport authorities and business leaders together with delivery partners, like Network Rail and National Highways, and work closely with government. We work with our partners to support and enable delivery of the North’s Strategic Transport Plan ambitions to drive sustainable and inclusive growth.

Our role is to add strategic value by ensuring that funding and strategy decisions about transport in the North are informed by local knowledge and requirements. As a partnership, we have powers devolved from central government to work together to deliver strategic transport priorities.

Our vision is of a thriving North of England, where modern transport connections drive economic growth and support an excellent quality of life.

Overview

Role overview: As a Management Accountant at TfN, you’ll provide essential management accounting, budgeting and reporting services to support our leadership and operational teams. You’ll act as a trusted financial partner—offering expert advice, developing our financial systems, and ensuring that robust controls underpin everything we do.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work across a wide range of financial activities, from transactional oversight and cash management to business partnering, audit support, and system development. You will also play a key role in producing high-quality financial information to TfN’s Boards, Directorates and external partners.

What we’re looking for

• A qualified or part-qualified accountant (CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA, ACA) or equivalent experience
• Strong experience in management accounting, ideally within the public sector or a similar environment
• Excellent analytical skills with strong systems and Excel capability
• A confident communicator able to explain technical financial concepts clearly
• Someone who can innovate, collaborate, and build trusted working relationships
• Experience supporting or leading improvements to financial processes and reporting

What You’ll Be Doing

• Delivering an effective management accounting service, including month-end, reporting packs, financial monitoring and budget analysis
• Supporting and enhancing TfN’s financial systems, processes and controls
• Providing insightful business partnering to directorates—helping them understand financial performance and make informed decisions
• Overseeing transactional processes including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, payroll, banking and reconciliations
• Supporting cash management, treasury activities, audit processes and the preparation of the Annual Statement of Accounts
• Working collaboratively across the organisation, sharing expertise and contributing to broader projects and improvements

Closing and How to Apply

Closing Date: 12:00pm 25th February 2026

Provisional Interview Date: w/c 2nd March

In return, as well as a competitive salary, our other benefits are:

• 28 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays
• Access to the local government pension scheme
• Access to various salary sacrifice benefits, including Travel Pass purchase scheme
• Access to TfN’s Flexi-Time Scheme, allowing accrual of up to 18 additional days leave per year

If you believe you have the skills and experience we’re looking for please apply online, ensuring that in your application you provide evidence in the form of specific examples of how you meet the essential criteria in the role profile.

All candidates will be required to prove their right to work in the UK as part of the recruitment process.

At TfN, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are particularly keen to encourage applications from women, members of ethnic minority groups and people with disabilities who are currently under-represented.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, all applications will be considered on their merit.

As an organisation we always strive to do the right thing and understand that in order to make a difference in our society and workplace, we must be committed to respecting equality and diversity, showing kindness, tackling discrimination and promoting inclusion and have signed the CIHT Diversity and Inclusion Charter Statement to further endorse our commitment. We are also an accredited Living Wage Employer, this means that every employee earns a real Living Wage and are recognised as Disability Confident employer (stage 2) acting as a disability confident champion within our local and business communities and business networks.