Manufacturing Cost Accountant: Costing, Analytics & Reporting

Placr Recruitment; Wealden; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Placr Recruitment is seeking a Cost Accountant in Lower Dicker, East Sussex. This full-time, permanent role focuses on maintaining product costs, inventory valuations and financial reporting to support profitability.

Suitable for an experienced cost accountant or part-qualified finance professional looking to develop in a busy manufacturing business. Key duties include cost roll-ups, BOM reviews, variance analysis, inventory monitoring, margin reporting and year-end schedules, with ERP and BI

Qualifications

• 1–2 years’ experience in cost or management accounting.
• Experience in a manufacturing/operational environment.
• Strong costing knowledge: standard & absorption costing.
• Experience with ERP systems (Dynamics AX, SAP, Oracle).
• Advanced Excel: pivot tables, modelling & data analysis.
• Professional accounting qualification or part-qualified (CIMA/ACA/ACCA).

Responsibilities

• Complete quarterly cost roll-ups and review BOMs.
• Analyse variances across materials, labour and overheads.
• Monitor inventory valuations and reconcile accounts.
• Support cycle counts and investigations into discrepancies.
• Produce margin analysis by product and customer.
• Prepare month-end journals for inventory and cost of sales.
• Produce daily/weekly labour-efficiency reports.
• Perform balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Maintain fixed-asset register and depreciation journals.
• Provide board reporting on inventory ageing and stock categories.
• Maintain costing data within the ERP system.
• Develop Excel models, reports and BI dashboards.
• Support system upgrades, automation and CI projects.
• Maintain financial controls across inventory and costing.
• Prepare year-end schedules and respond to audits.

Skills

Cost accounting

Management accounting

Manufacturing environment

Standard costing

Absorption costing

Advanced Excel

ERP experience

Education

CIMA/ACA/ACCA part-qualified

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics AX

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Placr Recruitment is seeking a Cost Accountant in Lower Dicker, East Sussex. This full-time, permanent role focuses on maintaining product costs, inventory valuations and financial reporting to support profitability.

Suitable for an experienced cost accountant or part-qualified finance professional looking to develop in a busy manufacturing business. Key duties include cost roll-ups, BOM reviews, variance analysis, inventory monitoring, margin reporting and year-end schedules, with ERP and BI