Cost Manager

Körber Pharma Packaging AG; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Körber Pharma Packaging AG is seeking a Cost Manager in Milton Keynes to oversee project costs and financial efficiency. This role includes managing budgets, tracking variances, and preparing comprehensive reports to support key decisions. The ideal candidate will possess a degree in finance or related field and have substantial experience in financial analysis.

Benefits

Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses

Pension plan with company contribution

Simply Health benefits

Opportunities for professional development and career advancement

Dynamic and collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cost management and financial analysis.
• Knowledge of budgeting and forecasting techniques.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in preparing reports.

Responsibilities

• Establish cost account systems and maintain annual standard calculation schemes.
• Track actual costs and prepare regular reports for stakeholders.
• Monitor financial performance and provide KPI analysis.

Skills

Financial analysis

Cost management

Budgeting

KPI analysis

Education

Degree in Finance or related field

Tools

SAP

Job description

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As a Cost Manager, you will be part of a small but strong team dedicated to planning, controlling, and monitoring project costs across the UK. You will play a key role in ensuring financial efficiency, managing budgets, forecasting costs, and keeping projects aligned with financial objectives.

Your tasks and responsibilities will be as follows:

• Establish and develop cost account systems (i.e., Material, Labor, Third Party Workers) for Projects and internal orders, including Billings, project maintenance in SAP (Project setup, Closure, Cost Centre Set up).
• Maintain annual standard calculation schemes for material, labor, and overhead, and provide cost calculation bases for product/project pricing.
• Track and maintain Actual costs compared to planned costs on projects and analyze variances.
• Prepare regular reports for internal stakeholders.
• Assist in internal and external audits.
• Ensure coherence with superior controlling standards, policies, and procedures, adopting respective processes.
• Plan, monitor, and review project budgets, providing and commenting on Actual vs. Plan reports.
• Monitor financial performance, provide KPI analysis, and prepare and comment on respective performance reports and forecasts.
• Ensure proper revenue and cost controlling, and design and maintain underlying planned costs in account systems.
• Analyze, prepare, approve, and review Cost Centre expenditures, providing respective reporting.
• Oversee day-to-day controlling and financial analysis operations.
• Gather and consolidate budget data and monitor Actual vs. Plan comparisons.
• Prepare regular business reports, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• May carry out ad-hoc analyses and profitability calculations.
• Support evaluations of assets and liabilities.
• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Pension plan with company contribution.
• Simply Health benefits.
• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
• A dynamic and collaborative work environment.

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We value diversity and therefore welcome all applicants—regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, and identity, or any other protected status.

The Körber Business Area Supply Chain is part of the international technology group Körber, with about 13,000 employees and more than 100 locations worldwide. We provide a broad range of proven, end-to-end supply chain solutions suitable for any business size, strategy, or growth appetite. Our portfolio includes software, automation, mail and parcel solutions, voice solutions, robotics, and materials handling, along with the expertise to integrate them. Körber helps to manage the supply chain as a competitive advantage. Conquer supply chain complexity—with Körber.