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About the Business
An opportunity to be aCommercial Management Accountantfor a manufacturing company based inRedditch. This business has and gives you a fantastic chance to be a part of an productive and engaging team.
This is a varied, hands-on Senior Management Accountant Role which involves:
- Inventory: Prepares analysis and reports on inventory on a weekly and monthly basis and provides to local management. Ensures Inventory and WIP accounts are clean and cleardowns are done in a timely manner
- Standard costs: control and processing of the annual standard cost roll procedure in SAP. In addition, perform regular standard cost updates as required by the business
- Prepares reports analysing inventory aging to calculate provisions for Obsolete and Slow-Moving Inventory (OSMI)
- Assists with the coordination of the annual physical inventory preparation, count and reconciliation including book to count investigation and explanation
- General Ledger: Preparation and posting of accurate and timely journal entries, including but not limited to, Cost of Sales, inventory and a variety of other manufacturing variances. At all times maintaining and controlling General Ledger integrity and system processing.
- SOX Controls:
- Monthly: Cycle counting controls for 2 sites.
- Quarterly: Obsolete and Slow-Moving Inventory (OSMI) control
- Annually: (i) Annual standard cost roll (ii) Physical inventory count
- External Audit: responds to external audit requests on a timely manner and closes out open items and issues in a professional manner
- Reconciliations: Performs monthly balance sheet account reconciliations, which may include various accruals and prepayments, obsolete and slow-moving inventory provisions and any other requisite balance sheet reserves. Performs controls over accounts and helps meeting the companies SOX and audit requirements
- Reports: Provides timely, accurate and professional reports that may include daily input / output updates, weekly shipping forecasts, inventory analysis plus annual federal and state tax type schedules required by both domestic and international locations
- Analysis: Performs as hoc analysis and works with operating personnel to identify cost and product cost issues and opportunities
- Other: Liaise with senior management to assist in the preparation of annual budget and periodic forecast returns, providing detailed breakdown of the P&L and salient balance sheet items in readiness for corporate review
- Monthly Orderbook Reporting
- Reconcile Consumption balances and investigate orders that are causing reconciling differences, then monitoring orders until items are closed out
- Manage National Statistics Reports
- Quarterly Reporting: including OSMI, Goods in Transit, IC Profit in Inventory, IC Profit in Freight and Performance Obligations
Location / Office / Culture
The role is hybrid with only 2 days a week in their Redditch office and 3 days working from home. The company operate from a modern office consisting of a strong team, with exciting senior management to learn from.
What We Are Looking For
The ideal candidate will have:
- Part/Fully qualified CIMA/ACCA (or equivalent) or QBE
- Manufacturing experience is essential
- Worked with Standard Costing system
- Ability to identify and investigate trends and potential issue
- Excellent communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft office applications
Why Join the business
- Large, growing Business
- Fantastic managers
- Hybrid Working
About Us
We are a local accountancy recruitment specialist. We appreciate that roles are often online for a long period of time. If you want to check if this role is still live or just want more details before applying, call us directly.
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