UK Projects & Senior Cost Accountant

Matcon Limited; Evesham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Matcon Head Office, Evesham, Worcestershire, UK, seeks a Finance Business Partner to support Operations, Project Management, Supply Chain and site leadership. You will translate cost and inventory performance into actionable insights and help drive margin improvement.

The role requires a degree in Finance/Accounting, strong cost accounting and project accounting experience, and ERP proficiency (JDE/SAP). A strategic partner, you’ll lead budgeting and forecasting with accuracy.

Qualifications

• Progressive cost accounting experience in manufacturing or project accounting.
• Degree in Business, Finance or Accounting.
• Knowledge of project accounting and percentage of completion accounting desirable.
• Experience partnering with Operations/Manufacturing and Supply Chain on inventory and cost controls.

Responsibilities

• Drive project budgets and cost-to-complete estimates with strong controls.
• Lead monthly cost reviews with PM team and inventory reviews with Purchasing.
• Own standard costing at Evesham, BOM/routing costs, and COGS accuracy.
• Improve reporting, variance analysis, and margin projection processes.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and percentage of completion accounting.
• Provide cross-functional financial insights to leadership.

Skills

Variance analysis

Cost accounting

Excel

Power BI

JDE knowledge

ERP experience

Education

Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting

CPA or CMA advantageous

Tools

JDE

SAP

ERP systems

Job description

Join IDEX Material Processing Technologies and be part of a team that provides specialist equipment & solutions for powder material handling & blending, particle size reduction, and liquid processing for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and biopharmaceutical sectors. Here, you’ll collaborate with talented professionals from our globally recognized brands—including Quadro, Fitzpatrick, Matcon, and Microfluidics—who are dedicated to solving complex manufacturing challenges.

Our commitment to trust, teamwork, and excellence empowers every team member to contribute meaningfully to help our global customers. We celebrate diversity and inclusivity, ensuring that every voice is heard and valued. If you are passionate about creative problem-solving and want to make a real impact, come and discover a rewarding career with IDEX MPT, where every day is an opportunity to excel and drive positive change.

Overall Purpose Of Role

Acts as a finance business partner to Operations, Project Management, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance and site leadership, leading and challenging assumptions behind project budgets, cost-to-complete estimates, inventory valuation and margin forecasts. Drives actionable insights, strong controls and continuous improvement across project cost accounting and inventory management.

Key Responsibilities

• Driving best practices in inventory management across the business
• Annual Stock Take & Cost Roll
• Monthly Job Cost Review with PM Team
• Monthly Inventory & EOZ Review with Purchasing & Factory Teams
• Control of project budgets & profitability
• Relevant variance analysis and margin erosion/gain report preparation
• Cost/budget monitoring & allocations
• Month end close responsibilities
• Providing ad hoc support across the business
• Report and analysis preparation as per requirements
• Lead and challenge assumptions behind project forecasts, cost-to-complete estimates, standard costs, inventory reserves and margin projections.
• Act as finance business partner to Operations, Project Management, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, and senior leadership, translating cost and inventory performance into clear actionable insights.
• Ownership of standard costing at Evesham under direction of the Global Operations Finance Manager, including annual cost roll, BOM/routing cost integrity, labour and overhead rates, inventory valuation and COGS accuracy.
• Lead cycle counts and physical stock take process, investigate root causes of variances and strengthen inventory controls and audit readiness.
• Provide root-cause analysis on purchase price variance, material usage, labour efficiency, overhead absorption, scrap/rework, warranty/quality costs and margin erosion/gain.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, project cost-to-complete reviews and, where applicable, percentage of completion accounting.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across reporting, controls, inventory accuracy, cost transparency and complexity reduction.

This list is not exhaustive and the job holder may be asked from time to time to undertake other duties so that the team or department can function efficiently. Such a request will be reasonable and will be within this role’s normal scope of authority.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to engage across teams and drive meaningful change across the business
• Excellent communication skills
• Advanced capability in variance analysis, standard costing, inventory accounting, cost modelling and repeatable reporting using Excel/Power BI.
• JDE knowledge/experience required; SAP or other ERP experience beneficial. Must understand item master, BOM/routing, work order, inventory and cost accounting flows.
• Proficiency in managing general ledgers, journal entries, and account reconciliations
• Strong analytical & solution driven mindset
• Attention to details
• Continuous improvement mindset with experience simplifying processes, improving controls and building scalable reporting routines.
• Ability to learn and provide clear guidance to non-finance teams
• Proactive approach to
• Strong business partnering skills, including the ability to influence operations and non-finance stakeholders with data-backed recommendations.
• Able to lead and challenge assumptions constructively, identify gaps in operational plans and elevate risks/opportunities clearly.

Knowledge & Qualifications

• Proven progressive cost accounting experience in similar role preferred, ideally in manufacturing, project accounting, engineered to order, or inventory intensive environments
• Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field
• Part Qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Management Accountant (CMA) would be advantageous
• Knowledge of project accounting and percentage of completion accounting desirable.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Operations/Manufacturing and Supply Chain teams on inventory accuracy, cost controls, cycle counts and margin improvement.

Location and any travel requirements

Matcon Head Office, Evesham, Worcestershire, UK. Occasional travel may be required.

Job Family: Finance
Business Unit: Matcon