# Management Accountant - Manufacturing

**Company**: Lush
**Location**: Villawood, NSW
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: Full-time
**Salary**: $105k - $125k+ super
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are seeking a Management Accountant - Manufacturing to join our AUSAO finance team, supporting retail, digital, and manufacturing operations across Australia and Aotearoa (NZ). This is a hands-on management accounting role embedded in our Villawood manufacturing operation.

The successful candidate will own the month-end close for Manufacturing, run inventory and cost accounting across the entity, and act as a genuine finance business partner to the Manufacturing Director.

Key responsibilities include:

- Acting as a finance business partner to the Manufacturing Director, providing analysis, commentary, and guidance to support operational decision-making

- Owning month-end close for the manufacturing entity, including inventory journals, cost of goods, and intercompany reconciliations between manufacturing and retail

- Preparing and reviewing closing stock valuations, goods in transit, and opening stock reversals

- Reconciling manufacturing sales and purchases against retail counterparts, investigating and resolving discrepancies

- Maintaining and applying cost prices across SKUs, including packaging, consumables, and finished goods

- Managing wastage reporting and ensuring accurate GL treatment across waste categories

- Supporting the preparation of management accounts and commentary for the manufacturing entity

- Working closely with the manufacturing team at Villawood to ensure financial processes reflect operational reality

- Contributing to ERP and system improvements (including Xero onboarding)

- Building and maintaining the GL mapping and chart of accounts for manufacturing-related activity

- Supporting payroll GL submissions and liaising with the payroll team on coding and accruals

The ideal candidate will have:

- 3-4+ years in a management accounting or financial accounting role, ideally with exposure to manufacturing

- A Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance and/or CPA/CA completed or in progress

- Solid understanding of inventory accounting, cost of goods, and stock movement journals

- Experience with modern accounting systems and confidence in adapting to changes

- Strong reconciliation skills and attention to detail

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

- Experience with MYOB, Xero, or a comparable system

We offer a range of benefits, including:

- 50% discount on Lush products

- Profit-based bonus

- Flexible working arrangements

- Paid day off for your birthday

- Employee assistance programme

## Skills

### Required
- management accounting
- financial accounting
- inventory accounting
- cost of goods
- stock movement journals
- modern accounting systems
- reconciliation skills
- communication skills
- MYOB
- Xero

### Nice to have
- QAD experience

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