Manufacturing Accountant

Manufacturing Accountant

Six Month FTC (potential to become permanent)

Are you looking to advance your career in finance? Do you hold previous experience across standard cost accounting? Perhaps you are ACMA qualified and want to join a finance function that prides itself on continuous improvement.

With over 30 years of trading our client is a well-respected supplier to the UK food service market, proudly driven by a passion for product innovation and high-quality products.

We are currently seeking a dedicated individual for the role of Manufacturing Accountant to join our clients finance team based in Burton-On-Trent on a six month FTC (with potential to extend)

If you are eager to continue your career with a highly regarded company, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

The Manufacturing Accountant will play a key role in the business. Working closely with the Financial Controller you will be ensuring accurate maintenance of standard costing and variance reporting. You will be trusted to provide proactive analysis of variances and communication of issues and opportunities to operations management.

Key responsibilities of a Manufacturing Accountant will include:

Ensure that the weekly P&L is completed, most importantly with credible numbers and narrative
Understand and report sales and margins weekly, including volume, mix, and price variances to standard
Understand and explain the key manufacturing (raw material, labour, and packaging) variances
Monitor and explain warehousing and distribution expenditure
Monitor overhead expenditure and review monthly with budget holders
Calculate rebates based on contractual agreements
Standard costing in a process manufacturing environment
Waste reporting and review (yield, giveaway, stock losses)
Labour and overhead recoveries to standard
Volume, mix, price variance analysis
Overhead budgeting and investigation of variances.

What is required to be a successful Manufacturing Accountant:

ACMA qualified / Business Degree or equivalent by experience
Minimum of 3 years' experience with standard cost accounting
Strong standard costing experience with either SAP or Navision or a similar ERP system
Experience working within food manufacturing or similar FMCG business.
Good working knowledge of using Microsoft Office programmes (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
Reporting and value adding data analysis experience.
Passion for continuous improvement.What's in it for you?

Salary £50,000 - £55,000

25 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday

NEST pension, 5% contribution employee, 3% contribution Company

Life Assurance

If you are interested, please click apply now and one of our recruitment specialists will be in touch.

Major Recruitment are an employment agency working on behalf of our client. Should you be seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment, or contract you will find our staff professional and courteous and our interview process straight forward.

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