Cost Accountant
- Employer
- Hays Senior Finance
- Location
- Birmingham, England, West Midlands
- Salary
- GBP30000.00 - GBP35000.00 per annum
- Closing date
- 25 Oct 2022
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- Sector
- Manufacturing and engineering
- Salary band
- £30,000 - £40,000
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Where will they be working?
- Hybrid - mostly office
Job Details
Cost Accountant, Birmingham, Up to £35,000
HAYS are delighted to be partnering with a £million turnover Manufacturing business to recruit for a Cost Accountant on a permanent basis. This role will support with the costing process for Production and Inventory management, highlighting variances generated between actual and standard cost. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Cost Accountant to join a growing international business with longer term plans for sustained growth.
This role is being offered with some hybrid working opportunities and is paying up to £35,000 + bonus.
The key responsibilities of this role are:
- 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
In order to be successful in this role, you will:
- Have previous experience with Cost Accounting
- Have strong analytical skills
- Be a self-starter with strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Organisation and time management skills
What you need to do now
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Company
At Hays we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. With over 50 years’ success under our belts and a workforce of 10,000+ people across 32 countries, we’ve evolved to put our customers at the heart of everything we do.
From CFO to Newly Qualified, we work with talented finance professionals and match them with organisations where they can achieve a lasting impact.
So much more than specialist recruiters in accounting and finance, what really sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding and our ability to meaningfully innovate for our customers. All our consultants have strong relationships across the industry and the support of our extensive global network. That’s why organisations of all types and sizes – from international blue chips to SMEs – trust us to find the people who can help transform their business.
So, whether you want something local or international, permanent, or interim, we have the breadth of coverage and the depth of understanding to help you find it.
We have specialist recruitment teams in the following areas:
- Corporate Governance
- Credit Control
- Part-Qualified Accountant
- Payroll
- Public Practice Accounting
- Public Services Accounting
- Senior Finance – Qualified
- Support, Ledgers & Bookkeeping
- Tax & Treasury
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