Management Accountant

The Management Accountant will play a key role in delivering accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting across Bolton Wanderers Football Club's operations. The role supports strategic decision-making, ensures strong financial control, and maintains compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements while providing leadership to junior finance staff.

Main areas of responsibility

• Produce monthly management accounts with clear commentary and insight for senior management.
• Prepare and distribute department finance packets including commentary and variance analysis.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and reforecasting processes across the organisation.
• Provide meaningful financial analysis to operational and non-finance stakeholders to support decision making.

• Oversee the preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely resolution of reconciling items.
• Maintain and manage the Fixed Assets and Intangibles Register, ensuring appropriate accounting treatment, amortisation, and compliance with relevant accounting standards.
• Support the maintenance of strong financial controls and adherence to internal finance policies.

• Be a key finance contact for the statutory audit, coordinating audit deliverables, schedules, and responses to auditor queries.
• Facilitate EFL compliance reporting, ensuring accuracy, compliance with football regulations, and timely submission.

• Operate and oversee payroll reporting, ensuring accurate posting, reporting, and reconciliation of payroll costs.
• Support reporting and analysis of people costs across the organisation.

• Line manage the Junior Management Accountant, providing day-to-day guidance, review of work, and ongoing development.
• Ensure outputs from junior staff meet quality standards and reporting deadlines.
• Drive continuous improvement in finance processes and reporting.

• BWFC seek to ensure that all children and young people are protected and kept safe from harm while they are with staff and volunteers within Bolton Wanderers activities. Everyone at Bolton Wanderers has a safeguarding responsibility to all work colleagues, fans and any vulnerable adults and children.
• Comply fully with all data protection and confidentiality obligations, ensuring that personal, sensitive, and confidential information is handled lawfully, securely, and in accordance with UK GDPR and the Club's Data Protection and Confidentiality Policies.
• Be an ambassador of the Group, providing excellent customer service at all times whilst portraying a professional image.
• Perform other duties as required, which are considered relevant to the post and to the objectives of the Group as identified by the Group Head of Finance.
• Treat all colleagues as customers ensuring respectful positive outcomes across communications.
• Adhere to and abide by all BWFC policies, procedures, and guidelines especially remembering responsibilities to others under Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Equality and Diversity.
• This post is subject to a DBS disclosure.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated and driven finance professional who takes pride in delivering high-quality work and setting strong standards within the team. They will demonstrate a proactive approach, a commitment to continuous improvement, and a genuine desire to develop their own career while contributing to the success of Bolton Wanderers.

They will be hard working, resilient, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, with the confidence to take ownership and accountability. The role requires someone who leads by example, supports and develops others, and actively seeks opportunities to improve processes, insight, and performance.

The ideal candidate will show clear ambition, a willingness to learn, and a mindset focused on excellence, both in personal development and in raising the overall capability of the finance function.

• Ideally a qualified accountant ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent). Part qualified may be considered on exception.
• Strong management accounting experience within a complex or multi-department environment.
• Proven ability to manage month-end processes, P&L ownership, and balance sheet control.
• Experience supporting statutory audits and working with external auditors.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience of line management or mentoring.
• Experience with in football, sport, leisure or hospitality.
• Knowledge of CRFU reporting and football finance regulations.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with financial systems.
• Payroll reporting experience.

As a founder member of the Football League (EFL), Bolton Wanderers is a football club that is internationally renowned, having played in all four…