Cost Accountant

Edwards & Pearce; Purston Jaglin; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturer in the United Kingdom is seeking a candidate to manage cost and yield accounts, focusing on accuracy and reporting. The ideal applicant should have experience in food manufacturing, particularly meat, and possess strong IT skills. Responsibilities include calculating variances, reporting costs, and ensuring effective stock control. This is a permanent role with benefits including pension and parking.

Benefits

Pension

Parking

Qualifications

• Experience in food manufacturing, preferably in meat.
• Stock control experience required.

Responsibilities

• Calculate daily operational variances, including meat costs.
• Cost reporting for various operational areas.
• Action good/poor yields with Operations teams.
• Ensure accuracy of new product cost setups.
• Liaise with different departments to ensure reporting accuracy.
• Identify profit improvement areas.

Skills

Experience within food manufacturing

Excellent IT skills

Education

AAT/CIMA/ACCA/QBE

Job description

This is a fantastic permanent opportunity to take responsibility for preparing, developing, and analysing relevant Cost and Yield accounts, identifying root causes of any discrepancies and leading the end-to-end reporting process.

THE BENEFITS:

Pension + Parking

THE ROLE:

• Calculate the daily operational variances including meat costs (yield, ppv if applicable, substitution, giveaway & waste)
• Cost reporting for labour, packaging, cooking, distribution and coldstore including variances to standard, liaising with payroll regarding the daily labour costs as appropriate.
• Action poor/good yields with the Operations teams.
• Ensure yield actions are completed & any appropriate training or feedback is provided in a timely manner.
• Updating system changes as required e.g. Cost spec / BOM / SI reports / maintenance explorer.
• Ensure new products set up correctly in order to measure all key direct costs.
• Update CM reporting.
• Liaise with commercial, planning, ops, technical & IT to ensure accuracy of reporting & correct meat usage in line with standards.
• Identifying areas for profit improvement & sustained benefits if found
• Stock reconciliation for all areas
• Ensure costs and yields used in product costings and renewals / tenders are accurate
• Educate key personnel across the business as appropriate, creating a collaborative and multiskilled reconciliation process.
• Cover / support Finance in roles as required
• Ad-hoc reports are required to fulfil the needs of the company.
• Comply with Company Policy to ensure that adhered on all matters concerning Health and Safety, reporting any breaches as appropriate.
• Any other relevant duties required by Management or the Company.

THE CANDIDATE:

• Experience within food manufacturing, ideally meat.
• AAT/CIMA/ACCA/QBE
• Stock control experience
• Excellent IT skills

THE COMPANY:

A leading manufacturer

THE CONSULTANCY:

Edwards & Pearce acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Edwards & Pearce is an Equal Opportunities Employer.