Cost Accountant

JR United Kingdom; Birkenhead; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Business Accountant to optimize costing systems and support financial operations. In this role, you will develop strategies to protect margins, conduct audits, and provide essential finance support throughout project lifecycles. You will collaborate across business functions, ensuring accurate forecasting and reporting. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, contributing to innovative solutions in the rail industry. If you are passionate about finance and eager to drive progress, we encourage you to apply!

Qualifications

• Qualified by experience or part/fully qualified (ACA, CIMA, ACCA).
• Experience of costing systems and principles.
• Ability to work autonomously or as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Manage and update the costing system.
• Provide finance support to project managers.
• Perform month-end activities ensuring reporting timetables are met.

Skills

Costing systems

Financial analysis

ERP systems

Collaboration

Education

ACA

CIMA

ACCA

Tools

Movex

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We are seeking an experienced Business Accountant to join our team in Birkenhead. The Birkenhead site supports our customers through maintenance and operation optimisation with customised solutions for spare parts, repair, and overhaul activities on existing trains for brake discs, brake pads, brake blocks, self contained dynamic brake systems.

Role: Cost Accountant

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

How will you make a difference?

Develop strategies to protect margins through ensuring the costing system is up to date and accurate. Perform Audits to establish movements between forecasted and actual margins are achieved and investigate variances to standard costs and help identify and implement solutions.

What will your typical day look like?

• Responsible for managing and updating of the costing system.
• Provide finance support to business / project managers from project appraisal through to their completion.
• Investigate variances to standards, assist in identifying solutions and their implementation.
• Forecasting contract margin by product line.
• Analysis and reporting on sales and our orderbook.
• Perform month end activities ensuring group reporting timetables are adhered to.
• Assist with external audit information requests.
• Annual Cost Roll up within ER system.

What do we want to know about you?

• You will either be qualified by experience or part/fully qualified (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
• Experience in a manufacturing environment is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of costing systems and principles.
• Experience of working with ERP systems (Experience with Movex is advantageous).
• Ability to collaborate effectively across different business functions.
• Ability to work autonomously or as part of a team.

If you don’t have all the above criteria don’t worry, we would still like to hear from you as we live our values always put people first, and strive to expand what is possible.

About Wabtec:

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make your and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology, and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

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