Senior Cost Accountant at Acumen Group

Summary: 

• Our client, a leading company in the manufacturing sector, is seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Senior Cost Accountant to join their team. This position is ideal for CIMA candidates with at least five years of experience in a similar role. 

Responsibilities: 

• Implement a costing system
• Review and closure of jobs, investigating variances and driving corrective actions
• Review and update of BOM’s as required
• Review and monitor labour and overhead allocations to products
• Review and monitor labour and overhead rates used for recovery
• Review and update standard cost for raw materials in the accounting system to ensure inventory valuation is accurate including landed cost calculations for imported raw materials
• Analyse material usage and waste and drive corrective actions
• Review inventory count results for approval
• Review the accuracy of inventory-related transactions and assist with queries
• Ensure strong inventory controls are in place to safeguard inventory and drive accuracy
• Perform product and customer costings
• Compile costing information and perform ad-hoc costings as required
• Analyse margin and costs and identify where improvements can be made to profitability
• Building and maintaining reports to assist product mix decision-making
• Performing financial modelling to inform decision-making for strategic objectives
• Preparing information and reports for business presentations
• Assist with compiling annual budgets and rolling forecasts
• Providing systems support to users and maintaining master data
• Identify and drive system improvements and assist with special projects
• Prepare SOP documentation and provide training to staff on systems implemented

Experience: 

• CIMA
• At least 5 years experience in a cost accounting role
• Experience working within a manufacturing environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Good attention to detail and organisational skills