Management Accountant

Operations Management Accountant - Whittlesey

Operations Management Accountant

Hays Accountancy & Finance are supporting a manufacturing company recruiting an Operations Management Accountant to join their Finance Team at their Plants and Flowers site in Whittlesey.

• This is a site-based role - working a minimum of 4 days in the office (subject to the needs of the business).
• Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 5:30pm.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Production of timely and accurate weekly and monthly accounts and financial analysis.
• Completing monthly accruals to ensure costs reflected in the correct month within the accounts.
• Assisting in preparation of the monthly forecast, annual plan and 3-year planning exercises.
• Completing regular financial analysis for both labour and yield to enable the operational teams to be proactive in mitigating financial losses.
• Support of Stock Management - Packaging & Raw Material.
• Controlling and challenging overhead spending to identify opportunities for savings and mitigation to prevent overspending.
• Delivering financial training to non-finance stakeholders to ensure teams are clear and accountable on their roles in the finance process.
• Driving sustainability of existing savings and providing the financials where required to identify new opportunities in the future.
• Completing raw material and packaging stock audits across all sites and ensuring any obsolete stock is written off the system.
• Challenging track requests for sites to keep packing costs realistic and the lowest possible cost for the operational teams.

To be considered for this role, you'll need:

• Manufacturing experience of at least 1 year (food manufacturing would be advantageous).
• Business partnering experience.
• Strong analytical mindset and variance analysis skills.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Good stakeholder management.
• Strong communication skills.
• Prophet / D365 / Anaplan skills (desirable).

Some of the benefits of this role include:

• 33 days Annual Leave - including 8 days bank holiday.
• Annual Bonus Scheme.
• Asda In-store, Mobile Discount & Pet Insurance Discounts.
• Enhanced pension scheme.
• Life Assurance - 4 x annual base salary.
• Free, direct access to health and wellbeing support services.
• Discounted health assessments.
• Ride-to-work scheme.

If you'd like more information/to be put forward for this role:

Please click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.