Are you a Management Accountant experienced in Standard Costings in a manufacturing setting looking for a new role within a heavily group backed business? Would the opportunity to develop alongside an experienced, dynamic team appeal to you and your career aspirations? If this sounds like something you'd like to get stuck in to please get in touch today!

Gleeson Recruitment Group are pleased to be partnered with a large, manufacturing business based in Birmingham who are looking for a Cost Accountant to join them as they head into their next busy period of growth. This is a supportive and inclusive environment where your key responsibility will be to support with the costing process for production and inventory management. As Cost Accountant you will also be highlighting variances generated between actual and standard cost.

What's On Offer?

Package £40,000 - £55,000
Flexible working - hybrid working
Excellent career progression opportunities
Free parking
Bonus up to 5%
Pension

The Role

As Cost Accountant you will be responsible for the following:

Ensure the Cost database for items (PRI's) are accurately maintained
Analyse, communicate monthly reports and advise departments about Production variances during monthly production meeting
Production and cost variance analysis
Material price index follow up
Commodity price analysis
Communication of PDC's to other group subsidiaries with audit of transfer prices
Apportionment of overhead via allocation models
Analysis of variation of average and standard cost
Inventory management with all relating financial ratios and statistics relating to this, such as number of days in stock
Stock and scrap reconciliations
Analysis of inventory adjustments (IA's) and other OPGL transactions
Fixed asset verification
Adhere to month-end deadlines
Ensure the liaison with statutory Auditors
Ensure Group rules and best accounting practises are followed
Work on the budget preparation
Prepare and analyse management information

The Requirements

The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience:

Good analytical skills
Self-starter with strong attention to detail and accuracy
Ability to work to tight deadlines
Organisation and time management skills
Quality focused
Good communication and interpersonal skills.
Computer literate with a strong spreadsheet capability

If this sounds like something you would be keen to explore, I would love to hear from you - either click to apply or give me a call!

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