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Michael Page are recruiting for a Management Accountant on behalf of a well established manufacturing business based in Salford.
This role will include cost accounting, management accounts and business partnering with both shop floor staff and site management.
Client Details
A well established manufacturing business with a purpose built head office & production site in Salford.
Our client has developed state of the art manufacturing facilities & processes in order to produce truly world class products.
With a commitment to the environment the business has made significant strides in its waste management and manufacturing processes.
Description
Cost Accountant duties include:
- Assist in the preparation of manufacturing accounts.
- Preparation and Analysis of Actual Cost of Sales (COS) and update expected COS for forecast analysis. Analyse key variances and report drivers.
- Maintaining standard costing process, update and revaluation across all legal entities.
- Maintaining overhead rates and analysis of variances to expected
- Inventory reconciliation, variance analysis, yield analysis, obsolete and slow moving stock provisions.
- Managing monthly stock-takes and delivering year end inventory stocktake.
- Providing financial support with monthly cost and inventory review meetings
- Prepare and process journals to support month end process.
- Preparation and reconciliation of monthly journals
- Monthly balance sheet reconciliations for specified accounts
- Project expenditure management and control
- Support, definition, analysis, implementation and control of identified avenues of improvement
- Active engagement with manufacturing group to support deployment and analysis of operational excellence programmes aimed at improving productivity and agility.
- Support supply chain group to understand material and logistic cost breakdown providing analysis to support savings initiatives.
- Manage the reporting of costs through the life of the product
- Support the Commercial Accountant in pricing decisions
- Reporting and analysis
- Active engagement within a team based environment with operations
- Coach and support managers within the business in financially-based analysis and decision making
- Maintain effective working relationships with budget holding managers within the business.
- Other
- Apply IT applications to drive efficiency improvements in the collection, reporting and distribution of financial information
Profile
The successful candidate will:
- Have a proven track record in a similar role (manufacturing / cost accounting experience)
- Be part qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA or qualified by experience
- Be an excellent communicator (both written and verbal)
- Have working knowledge of ERP systems
- Be proficient in MS Office, particularly MS Excel
Job Offer
- A salary up to £50,000
- Hybrid working - 4 days per week in the office
- Study support
- 25 days holiday with the option to buy & sell
- Enhanced employer pension contribution
- Early finish on a Friday
- Free parking
- Free tea & coffee
