Manufacturing Cost Accountant & Performance Analyst

Sammons Recruitment Ltd; Eastbourne; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Job summary

Sammons Recruitment Ltd is assisting an established business in Eastbourne to recruit a hands-on Management Accountant. The role emphasises cost accounting, manufacturing performance, inventory and financial analysis to transform data into actionable business insight.

You will collaborate with finance and operations teams to improve cost control, reporting and profitability, with scope to drive process improvements and ERP-based costing enhancements.

Qualifications

• Experience in management or cost accounting within manufacturing/industrial settings.
• Proficient in standard and absorption costing.
• ERP systems experience (Dynamics AX, SAP or Oracle) and strong Excel modelling.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyse manufacturing costs and variances across materials, labour and overheads.
• Complete quarterly cost roll-ups and review BOMs and product costing.
• Monitor inventory valuation and investigate discrepancies.
• Support month-end close including inventory and cost of sales journals.
• Produce margin and profitability analysis by product and customer.
• Prepare labour efficiency and manufacturing performance reporting.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations and depreciation journals.
• Produce management and board reporting around inventory, costs and financial performance.
• Develop Excel models, reporting tools and dashboards.

Skills

Cost accounting

Manufacturing costing

Advanced Excel

Financial analysis

Variance analysis

BOM costing

ERP knowledge

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA (qual/part-qualified)

Accounting degree

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics AX

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Sammons Recruitment Ltd is assisting an established business in Eastbourne to recruit a hands-on Management Accountant. The role emphasises cost accounting, manufacturing performance, inventory and financial analysis to transform data into actionable business insight.

You will collaborate with finance and operations teams to improve cost control, reporting and profitability, with scope to drive process improvements and ERP-based costing enhancements.