Finance Manager - Cost Accounting

Kenneth Brian Associates are partnered with a global company based in Harwich looking for a proactive and experienced Finance Manager to join their team. The ideal candidate will come from a manufacturing background and have a working knowledge of cost accounting.

The company offers hybrid working where you would need to go in to the office 3 days per week.

Key Responsibilities:

Management Accounting

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• Sales & Profitability analysis and reporting.
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• Process Orders settlement; Capitalized overhead allocations.
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• Utility and Other Variable cost reporting.
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• Inventory accounting
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• Overall responsibility for the UK costing runs for Standard and Actual costs.
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• Working Capital/Capital employed analysis and reporting including Fixed Assets and Leases.
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• Fixed Production Costs – analysis and explanation of variances to Plan and forecast
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• Key Balance sheet items reconciliations
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Inventory Management and Costing

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• Overall responsibility for the financial control and reporting of Inventory for Harwich site at month end and year end.
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• Valuation issues
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• Liaise across Harwich site on stock issues and reporting.
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• New Material costing
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• Run ad hoc investigations into costing issues, e.g. price variances.
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Finance Business Partnering

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• Support Senior Commercial Managers in all aspects of Finance
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• Analysis of Profitability by area to help understand costs and margins
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• Completeness of Monthly Accounts including Accruals and Allocations
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• Support Plan and Forecast processes
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• Capex and Opex
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Plan & Forecasts

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• Support Harwich site in building Plan and Forecasts.
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• Fixed costs for Harwich operations.
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• Fixed Assets/Leases.
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• Annual Production recovery rate calculations and update.
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Year End Reporting & Audit

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• Be the first port of call for Auditor requests
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• Sales, Cost of Sales and Inventory
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• Purchasing & Sales cut offs
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• Stock Counts – oversee sites.
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• Financial Reconciliation of Stock
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• Net Realizable Stock valuations
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About You:

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• Strong IT and analytical skills using MS Excel with basic skills in PowerPoint and Word
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• Previous costing and general ledger experience in a process manufacturing environment
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• Flexible, resilient and proactive.
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• Analytical thinking and solution-oriented approach
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• Able to demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills.
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• Well organized and able to manage different priorities.
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• The ability to work in a cross-functional team environment either independently or as part of a team.
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