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Assistant Site Accountant / Management Accounts
- Brackley, Northamptonshire
- Salary negotiable
- 21 applications
- Job type: Temporary, full-time
- Date:
- Reference: 21138064
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Duration: Possible Temp to Perm
Temp to Perm Opportunity
Main Responsibilities
Financial Governance
- To reconcile bill-of-material and finished goods stock movement weekly (understanding the source of all variances).
- To create and control both financial & non-financial inputs to the weekly and monthly management accounts (including all ledger entries) to ensure they are accurate, auditable and have integrity.
- To reconcile balance sheet accounts on a weekly and monthly basis, highlighting discrepancies to the Accountant.
- To take ownership of miscellaneous financial matters at location.
Operational Accounting
- To fully understand and keep current with production processes and rates of production and use this information to generate consistent benchmarked product and process costs.
- To use relevant information to participate fully in site decision making by identifying and evaluating operating problems/opportunities.
- To assist the Site Accountant working with other key departments to match costs and activity and seek opportunities to reduce waste, increase efficiency and optimise use of material and capacity.
- To assist the Site Accountant in analysing labour costs including cost of shift patterns, overtime, temporary labour and variance against standards.
- To assist in the publication of the weekly Management Accounts with accompanying financial and operational commentary.
Commercial Planning & Business Analysis
- To regularly provide central commercial planning with current rates of production, product and process costs identifying areas of opportunity.
- To work with key management teams to produce cost information on new product and process development proposals.
- To maintain and develop KPI’s for all areas of the business and ensuring processes in place for capturing data.
Budgeting
- To assist the Accountant create budgets and financial forecasts from which site based targets for cost and performance are generated and used to keep the production facility focused on delivering against their KPIs.
