Senior Administrator

Position: Senior Administrator

Area: Tameside (Greater Manchester)

Salary: £30k - £35k

The Company: Large and most trusted engineering company, providing products and services to aerospace, defence and commercial sectors

The Role:

• My client are looking to appoint a Senior Administrator (with progression to the role of Commercial Manager) with experience and understanding of payroll, general business administration functions, SAP and finance in a manufacturing environment to support their Commercial Director and wider senior management team within their sheet metal and assembly business.
• Supporting the business support team member

Administrative (Finance / Accounts)

• Processing new customer/supplier accounts
• Processing purchase invoices
• Dealing with and resolving customer/supplier invoice queries
• Raising purchase orders
• Managing any proforma supplier accounts
• Responsible for supplier statement reconciliations

Commercial

• Reviewing work in progress (WIP) costs against budgeted costs and analysing any over spend
• Customer/project analysis and reviewing packages of work
• Analysing previous manufacturing costs to support the sales and estimating team
• Approve contract review
• Monitor APR (Advance production reserve)
• Sales forecasting
• Produce various KPI’s
• Issue Management
• Resolve sale ledger debt issues
• Manage customer commercial issues
• Monthly reviews with onsite accountant around WIP and overheads
• Reviewing supplier terms and conditions Director final sign off
• Recruitment onboarding process
• Training
• Releasing purchase orders
• Processing sales invoices
• Raising recharges

Payroll, providing cover and support processing:

• Wages
• Annual leave requirements
• Timesheets

Adhoc

• Leading on system improvements and improving business processes
• Reviewing new business improvement initiatives
• Office 5S champion

Requirements:

• Excellent Microsoft office PC skills (mostly excel)
• Good understanding of SAP / other similar system in a manufacturing / production environment
• Confident and professional when speaking to colleagues, clients and suppliers
• Excellent communications skills are imperative
• Must have good team working ethic, be highly pro-active and motivated.
• The ability to work flexible hours should the business need arise.
• Suitable training will be offered for the right candidate.