Costings Finance Analyst: Margin & Manufacturing

Compleat Food Group; Clitheroe; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary Sacrifice Schemes

33 days annual leave

Holiday discounts

Free product handouts across sites

EV charging points

GroceryAid support

Wellbeing resources & online tools

Learning platform (LMS)

Mentoring scheme

Club Compleat rewards

Volunteer days

Job summary

The Compleat Food Group is seeking a site Costings Finance Analyst at our Clitheroe site to own product costing, inventory valuation, standard costs and manufacturing cost accuracy.

You will work cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Procurement and NPD to support cost reduction opportunities and provide cost and margin reporting. This role suits a finance professional ready to drive improvements in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified / Part-Qualified (CIMA/ACCA).
• Strong understanding of standard costing and manufacturing finance.
• ERP costing experience.
• Confident analysing cost drivers, margins, variances, and inventory movements.
• Strong Excel/data analysis skills.
• Ability to partner with operational teams, explain financial impacts clearly to non-financial functions and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to prioritise, organise and elevate tasks.
• Attention to detail with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience in food manufacturing desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate standard costs, including BOMs, routing assumptions, labour rates, and overhead rates.
• End to end costings responsibility.
• Own site costing structures within the ERP system.
• Provide product margin, manufacturing cost, and inventory valuation reporting.
• Perform detailed variance analysis across material, labour, yield, and overhead costs.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Procurement, and NPD to support product costing and cost reduction opportunities.
• Provide cost assumptions and standard cost inputs for budgets and forecasts.
• Track manufacturing cost performance, production efficiency, and yield impacts.
• Ensure costing integrity, inventory controls, and accurate stock valuation.
• Support operational analysis, including budget control where required.
• Provide costing inputs for CapEx business cases and operational impact assessments.
• Using initiative to support continuous improvement on existing and new processes.
• Maintain comprehensive site knowledge, such as new lines/processes/ways of working/product portfolio (brands, new launches etc.).
• Understanding of the wider marketplace and external influences (such as inflation).
• Challenging and influencing information provided from operations, commercial, NPD etc. such as line speed, number of people required, operational yields, raw materials required, prime cost targets.
• This is not a traditional finance role with monthly/weekly reporting, so the capability to adapt to frequent change in pace is required.

Skills

Costing

Variance analysis

Data analysis

Excel

Stakeholder management

Manufacturing

Education

CIMA/ACCA Part-Qualified

Tools

ERP costing system

Job description

The Compleat Food Group is seeking a site Costings Finance Analyst at our Clitheroe site to own product costing, inventory valuation, standard costs and manufacturing cost accuracy.

You will work cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Procurement and NPD to support cost reduction opportunities and provide cost and margin reporting. This role suits a finance professional ready to drive improvements in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.